BREAKING: Trump Fires Comey

[SteveRogers]

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There we go

Ha

Doesnt the FBI have to sign off on these recommendations before the grand juries go forward? Can someone confirm?

No. Federal prosecutors obviously rely on the FBI to conduct their investigations, but when it comes to running the grand jury and choosing who to indict, the prosecutors run the show.

[SteveRogers]

Just watched Sarah Huckabee Sanders give rambling non-answers to questions of "Ummm, wasnt Trump praising Comey's actions in late October?" The best they've been able to come up with is "Well, he was a candidate then and now he's president."

Can any Trump drones here do better?

[SteveRogers]

comey wanted to INCREASE the russia investigation a few days ago.



https://twitter.com/davidjoachim/status/862331936819302400

Quote" WASHINGTON — Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in resources for the bureau’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the presidential election, according to four congressional officials, including Senator Richard J. Durbin. " End quote

So the source of this story in the fair and balanced New York Times is a Democratic Senator and three anonymous officials.

Fake News.

Comey's meeting with congress would have involved republicans as well as democrats. Any republicans that were there could refute this account of what Comey briefed them on. They haven't.

Your attempts at spin are laughable.

[SteveRogers]

Just watched Sarah Huckabee Sanders give rambling non-answers to questions of "Ummm, wasnt Trump praising Comey's actions in late October?" The best they've been able to come up with is "Well, he was a candidate then and now he's president."

Can any Trump drones here do better?

Soooo... no takers?

I've seen a lot of posters on here doing the sarcastic "Gee, I thought democrats wanted him fired" shtick, but I don't know that I've seen any blue avatars actually defend or explain Trump's (supposed) flip-flop on this. Nobody wants to try?

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Now we're talking!

[SteveRogers]

Impeach Trump now.  His cabinet should meet and declare im incapacitated, 24 style.  We can't have this.  The President needs to govern.

The 25th Amendment actually isn't a great vehicle for staging a coup. Yeah, the Vice President and the cabinet can declare the President incapacitated. But then the President gets to submit a letter to congress stating that no such disability exists. Then if the VP + cabinet contest this, congress has to vote and you need a 2/3 vote in both houses to keep the ousted president out of office, and you'd potentially need to hold that vote again every 21 days for the rest of the term.