BREAKING: Trump Fires Comey

[publicunofficial]

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Oh my god they are exactly like their logic nerd supporters.

[The_Doctor]

So apparently the Hill is reporting this. The “recommendation” to fire him from the deputy AG was dated today.

[cinyc]

Wait this isn't the first Trump investigation firing. Preet Bharara was also investigating some stuff and was fired too.

So no US President should be able to fire their predecessor's political appointees?  Or is this a special rule for Trump?  Every U.S. Attorney is always investigating "some stuff" that might impact the current administration.

The fact is Bharara was fired along with dozens of other politically appointed U.S. Attorneys.  Just like Obama did when he first came into office.

You are putting far too much emphasis on one person.  There is always another monkey waiting in the wings to do the job.  If you think valid, ongoing investigations just stop because somebody gets fired, I have a bridge to sell you.

[ProudModerate2]

Comey thought it was a prank and laughed when news of his firing flashed on the TV


https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/862106173465649160

Sheer incompetence.

Any employer that would do this to one of their employees would be a complete assh**e.
But .... should we all be shocked that trump falls under this category ?

[Crumpets]

Someone on Tucker Carlson who supports the firing was just asked what examples he could give of Comey doing a sub-par job that would warrant the firing. The example he gave was not bringing charges against Hillary Clinton in July 2016.

[ApatheticAustrian]

On Fox, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, deputy WH press secretary says time to let Russia investigation go.
https://twitter.com/thomaswright08/status/862105575290744832

[Blue3]

So apparently the Hill is reporting this. The “recommendation” to fire him from the deputy AG was dated today.

I hear they quoted the Hillary Campaign's criticism of Comey handling the emails.

[Gass3268]

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There we go

[Confused Democrat]

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What does this mean?

[Ebsy]

On Fox, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, deputy WH press secretary says time to let Russia investigation go.
https://twitter.com/thomaswright08/status/862105575290744832

These traitors should be arrested.

[ApatheticAustrian]

the interesting question is btw NOT comey's firing.

many people speculated about this after the election.

the interesting thing is the timing.....comey didn't let go of his "pet projects" and so it became necessary to fire a seemingly unpopular director,

[Yank2133]

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There we go

Ha

[Hindsight was 2020]

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What does this mean?

It means people from Trump's inner circle are in trouble an firing Comey does nothing

[TheSaint250]

So because Flynn's associates were subpoenaed that's case and point for why trump fired Flynn? Wtf?

[MAINEiac4434]

Oh, wow. This is the equivalent of closing his eyes and screaming "IF I CAN'T SEE YOU YOU CAN'T SEE ME"

[The_Doctor]

Wait this isn't the first Trump investigation firing. Preet Bharara was also investigating some stuff and was fired too.

So no US President should be able to fire their predecessor's political appointees?  Or is this a special rule for Trump?  Every U.S. Attorney is always investigating "some stuff" that might impact the current administration.

The fact is Bharara was fired along with dozens of other politically appointed U.S. Attorneys.  Just like Obama did when he first came into office.

You are putting far too much emphasis on one person.  There is always another monkey waiting in the wings to do the job.  If you think valid, ongoing investigations just stop because somebody gets fired, I have a bridge to sell you.

Bharara was actually retained by the Trump Administration so his firing was a bit peculiar. Additionally the FBI director has to sign off on recommendations to prosecute or not. Trump's firing him and Sarah Huckabee saying its time to drop the Russian investigation makes things look highly suspicious and draws questions if Trump and Senate Republicans will confirm an independent director who will continue the investigation.

There's a lot of ways a FBI director can quietly kill or stymie an investigation. As I've said can we really trust Trump to appoint and Senate Republicans to confirm a director who may sign off on a recommendation that may warrant prosecution of a number of Trump associates?

If you believe that why do you believe so?

[The_Doctor]

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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?

[Hindsight was 2020]

The subpoenas are for Flynn's "associates" in finance

[136or142]

So.....all the bitching in earlier months that comey needs to be fired is out the window because the guy you hate ended up doing it?

Pure hypocrisy.

So hey, do you believe anything about Trump and Russia? Or are you cool with everything in that department?

I'm guessing you actually don't mind that the investigation might be hurt because you don't want the truth eh?

Despite all the witch hunt hysteria that's been going on for months now over this Trump/Russia conspiracy theory one has been able to produce actual evidence that withstands scrutiny to back up the claims that Trump campaign was linked to Russian hacking of the election or that the Russians even hacked the election in the first place.

Nice bait and switch.  The investigation has nothing to do with any alleged Russian hacking.  That was what the recounts were about and no hacking was found, so obviously neither Trump nor his campaign are being investigated for that.

It kinda does.  Not of the election but of Hillary, Dems, etc. It's about whether or not Trump's campaign colluded to do this or not.

1.Colluded to illegal hack the Hillary Clinton/DNC websites with wikileaks/Russia.  Not colluded to hack election websites.

Other allegations
1.Offers of bribery/pay offs with Putin/Russia in order to ease or eliminate the sanctions against Russia in exchange for campaign assistance, future business deals, monetary rewards or who knows what else.  That the special friendship between Putin and Trump may have ended post election does not alter any promises made prior to the election. It just shows that one psychopath shouldn't trust another psychopath.

2.Allegations of colluding with Russian backed fake news campaign against Hillary Clinton.

[The_Doctor]

https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/862071059100696580?s=04

Has this been confirmed?

[Hermit For Peace]

This will blow over with a whimper, just like all the other Trump controversies.

He appears to be immune to anything negative happening to him.

And here's a thought, while Trump has created a storm in this direction, and people think he's trying to cover up for the Russian thing (which is what he wants us to think), it's likely that Trump is pulling a "Trump" and is actually making sure people are stumbling all over this instead of looking where there is probably a REAL fire raging somewhere else.

Let's not be fooled. Somewhere else there's a real fire that Trump doesn't want us to see.


He seems to be a master at this.

[Hermit For Peace]

And could that other fire be sending lots of troops to Afghanistan?

More war?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

How can they be so stupid?

Trump's Razor. "Ascertain the stupidest possible scenario that can be reconciled with the available facts and that answer is likely correct."

[136or142]

This will blow over with a whimper, just like all the other Trump controversies.

He appears to be immune to anything negative happening to him.

And here's a thought, while Trump has created a storm in this direction, and people think he's trying to cover up for the Russian thing (which is what he wants us to think), it's likely that Trump is pulling a "Trump" and is actually making sure people are stumbling all over this instead of looking where there is probably a REAL fire raging somewhere else.

Let's not be fooled. Somewhere else there's a real fire that Trump doesn't want us to see.


He seems to be a master at this.

I don't think either he or anybody in his Administration are intelligent enough to pull off something like that.  I agree most journalists are stupid enough to fall for red herrings, but to pull something off like that would mean Trump would have to be a master magician at misdirection.

[ApatheticAustrian]

for the record....trump on Comey last October:

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/862104307231019008