"Trump's firing of the high-profile FBI director on the 110th day since the president took office marked another sudden turn for an administration that has fired its acting attorney general, national security adviser and now its FBI director, whom Trump had praised until recent weeks and had even blew a kiss to during a January appearance" Just another day in the Whitehouse. :shock:
********. Pure ********. You guys were all over Comey...wanted him fired. Now he's your sacrificial lamb. ********.
I think Comey was developing a conscience.... and decided he needed to be strongly bi-partisan given that his timing in late October may have given Trump the presidency. His dogged determination on the Russian-Trump election connection did him in with Trump.
The National Security Adviser fired himself, the acting AG refused to follow a direct order, there was no real choice. As to Comey he's managed to alienate both sides of the aisle. He took the heat off Lynch who would have let Hillary skate after meeting with Bill on her plane. The FBI investigates and the DOJ decides whether or not to indict. He crossed a line he shouldn't have and compounded his mistakes by continuing a fruitless investigation, keeping the koolade chilled for the delusional left. Laws were broken leaking unmasked conversations by American citizens and the FBI apparently hasn't bothered to investigate real crimes. It's time someone reopened the investigation of Hillary and her staff, the Clinton Foundation and the illegal leaks of unmasking that may have been itself in violation of the law. In over 6 mos. there's been absolutely NO EVIDENCE of any collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. The assholes on the left who forced Nixon out, tried to do the same with Reagan and Iran-Contra, and tried to steal the election of W Bush are clinging onto their new fantasy the Russian "hacking" of the last election. It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
I don't give a damn anymore about investigating Hillary, I guess. Would be nice if the FBI would investigate itself and the DOJ in terms of who committed felonies by unmaking privileged conversations. As for as the Nothing Sandwich of collusion...should fish or cut bait. Show a scintilla of evidence or STFU. The left doesn't want an investigation because there is no evidence it ever happened. They just want to keep stirring the fable. Comey should have never played prosecutor rather than investigator, covering up for Lynch when she got her hand caught in the cookie jar. Wasn't his or his agencies role. Left should be unhappy with him too...what was that nonsense about when he went on and on about Hillary's indiscretions. Not being a lawyer, I would think that when you decide not to indict someone (not his call, BTW) you don't go on and on about all the bad and borderline (if not illegal) things they did. You just state there is not evidence to indict and let it go...unless you have an agenda...or are CYA. Then there were all the apparent inaccuracies (deliberate or not) in his testimony regarding Huma's emails. I dunno...very weird for a guy who was pushed as apolitical and a straight arrow back in the pre-election days.
I am puzzled by that comment. Why wouldn't they..... if not for constitutional reasons then certainly for political reasons they would want one. As for Comey.... his timing in late October couldn't have been worse.... certainly it did not seem apolitical. But maybe he was that much of a klutz. He couldn't decide which way he was going and realizing that his October announcement really could have damaged Clinton's bid for the presidency he was more determined to investigate the Trump Moscowgate. The issue of possible collusion between the Rusians and anyone Trump connected is not done until a bipartisan investigation has been thoroughly completed and unimpeded by the dictatorial hot head in the whitehouse.
My son has been detached to an FBI drug task force for three years. He said that morale has been low under Comey during his tenure but never more than when he pronounced the evidence against Hilary Clinton as unworthy of indictment in July 2016. He has noticed no upset or indignation at his firing in his office.
Trump-Russia investigations abound: https://qz.com/980333/james-comey-fired-here-all-of-the-agencies-still-investigating-trumps-russia-ties-from-the-fbi-to-the-senate-to-the-cia/
Given the scope of what is presently occurring with the different groups undertaking the investigation and in consideration of the Comey firing providing more urgency and impetus it appears to me that the Trump-Russian collusion investigation is just beginning.
' Urgency and Impetus' You can bet your sweet ass it's just beginning but not from the angle of what's best for the anybody outside the beltway which "kabam" that is only what the reporters are reporting and think is truly important in America. I don't honestly care at this point, I'm done following the media circus of I'm a liberal, and its identity politics as we line up with Pelosi, Feinstein, Hollywood stars and mainstream media. Target acquired Russia is to blame ignore the 2,000 seats the DNC has lost since 2012 at the state and federal level and start our interview with CNN..
Not sure who you aimed that at, Sid...plenty of Kool-Aid drinking on all sides I guess. Dave, the Dems don't want an investigation. They want all the publicity that they are trying to get by implying that there is reason for one. I don't mind a legitimate investigation that does it's thing quietly and finds what it finds and lets the chips fall where they may...but this is a publicity stunt based on a joke Trump uttered on the campaign trail. Whatever. Again, all this crying out publicly and yet nobody has ever heard one thing that points in any way to collusion to alter the election. Not that I've heard. And speaking of collusion...is it collusion when almost every Sunday every media commentator has the same exact talking point? Where does that come from? Remember the "gravitas" Sunday when Bush picked Cheney?
That was my point, Stu. Both ends of the spectrum are guzzling the Kool-Aid. The twain shall never meet. The lack of respect in both directions is understandable but unfortunate.
If the Democrats had anything on Trump they would have played it by now. This is nonsense. Trump should have fired Comey like this.... " I'm have terminated him as Director of the FBI because I am unhappy with his performance. I wish him well. Now we pursue his replacement in timely fashion " And he should never have commented on it again.
That was in the article Dave posted. It's a complete lie. The acting FBI director was asked if he had sufficient manpower for the investigation and he testified that he did. Rosenstein came out and said that he wasn't asked by Comey for any additional resources. This lie was picked up by the usual deceivers, the NY Times, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC CNN etc. This is the same **** that happens over and over again and the feeble minded who read or hear these reports buy it. Trump was right from the beginning about fake news and it continues unabated.
Another scandal dutifully reported by the major media outlets; Oh! The Humanity! https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-gets-two-scoops-110500793.html