Originally Posted by
Oneuli
I'm a big fan of honesty in political debate, so let me address one of your claims:
That wasn't done without justification. You seem to have forgotten what led up to it. At first, there was no special counsel. We knew that the Russians had interfered in the 2016 campaign, but we were allowing that to be investigated in the ordinary course by the FBI. But then one of Trump's buddies was in the cross-hairs -- a man who Trump has admitted that he knew, at the time, to be guilty of the federal crime of making false statements to investigators. Trump responded to that with the highly unusual step of isolating the head of the FBI and telling him he'd like him to let Flynn off. Then, when the head of the FBI refused to cave into that corrupt request, Trump summarily fired him. At that point, the FBI had no credibility when it came to continuing the Russia investigation -- the new person in charge would only have been there because the last person was looking places the president told him not to look.... and that new person would know he could also be fired if he did his job too well. So, at that point, even life-long Republicans like Rosenstein saw that the investigation would need to be carried out in a more independent way, by someone buffered somewhat from Trump, if it was to have any credibility. That's how we got the special counsel.
Trump has nobody but himself to blame. He could have let Comey continue with the investigation in the ordinary course, but his ego wouldn't allow it. And the resulting firing was so unconscionable that it even swayed Republicans like Rosenstein into admitting a more independent process was needed.
The firing of Comey was ‘unconscionable’ by Trump even though democrats wanted Comey’s head on a platter in October of 2016 lol?
That’s funny. Trump’s authority to fire Comey is unassailable. Comey wasn’t over the investigation anyway. Strzok was over it. The investigation was going to proceed with or without Comey. And guess what. Strzok was fired, but not by Trump.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
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