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    Default Friday: what reason/s will rumpf give today for firing the man investigating him??

    Just hours after the FBI sent a letter Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee clarifying his testimony in relation to the Hillary Clinton email scandal, FBI Director James Comey was fired.

    "Today, President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office," White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement. "President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions."

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    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    Trump has given every reason for us to believe he fired Comey over the Russia investigation






    By Philip Bump May 10

    President Trump gestures to the media on May 3. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
    This article has been updated.
    There is a simple reason that reactions to President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James B. Comey tend to assume that the cause of the termination was the bureau’s investigation of possible links between Trump’s campaign and Russian agents: Trump has offered repeated evidence that this is the primary reason he wanted Comey to be gone — and essentially no evidence that he was concerned about the administration’s public reason.
    Ostensibly, Trump was acting in response to a letter sent by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, a former U.S. attorney from Maryland who was elevated to his current position at the end of April. That letter is a review of Comey’s handling of the investigation of the email server Hillary Clinton used while she was secretary of state, concluding that “the way the Director handled the conclusion of the email investigation was wrong.” Rosenstein cites a number of former FBI officials who had offered a public critique of Comey’s news conference on the subject in July and his subsequent representations to Congress.
    Although the letter doesn’t explicitly recommend that Comey be fired, a letter from Attorney General Jeff Sessions that was sent to Trump does. This, the administration argues, was the precipitating information that led to Comey’s ouster.
    At no point before Tuesday did Trump ever express anything but enthusiasm for the events that prompted Rosenstein’s critiques of Comey. When Comey held that July news conference, Trump’s reaction was not that Comey overstepped his bounds, it was that https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/750352884106223616"[/video] for Clinton because no charges would be filed. Comey’s comment that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in handling her email became a staple of Trump’s https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/750648675186147328"[/video] in the weeks that followed.
    When Comey subsequently announced shortly before the election that the FBI would examine emails found on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner, Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s husband, Trump praised Comey repeatedly.
    “I have to give the FBI credit,” he said on Oct. 31, “that was so bad what happened originally, and it took guts for Director Comey to make the move that he made, in light of the kind of opposition he had, where they’re trying to protect her from criminal prosecution, you know that. It took a lot of guts, I really disagreed with him, I was not his fan. But I’ll tell you what he did, he brought back his reputation — he brought it back.”
    Comey’s defense of that announcement is specifically criticized in the letter from Rosenstein to Sessions.
    Reporting in the wake of Comey’s dismissal suggests that the attorney general was tasked with finding a reason to terminate Comey. The New York Times’s Michael Schmidt wrote that administration officials told him that “Sessions had been charged with coming up with reasons to fire” Comey, and that staff from the White House and the Justice Department had been working on “building a case” for at least a week. The implication at the heart of that report meshes with the contradiction between Trump’s past statements about Comey and Rosenstein’s critiques: The Rosenstein letter probably was simply the evidence the White House was looking for.
    Update: McClatchy’s Anita Kumar [video=twitter;862360375718805504]https://twitter.com/anitakumar01/status/862360375718805504"]reports[/URLABC’s Ben Siegel that Trump told her he’d “asked Rosenstein and Sessions to look into it.”
    Which leaves us with the question of why the White House was looking for a reason. Two answers immediately rise to our attention: the investigation of links to Russia, and Comey’s high profile within the government.
    The latter possibility is reinforced by a Wall Street Journal report.
    “In the months before his decision to dismiss Mr. Comey as head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr. Trump grew unhappy that the media spotlight kept shining on the director,” the paper reports. “He viewed Mr. Comey as eager to step in front of TV cameras and questioned whether his expanding media profile was warping his view of the Russia investigation, the officials said.”
    This meshes with Trump’s reaction when he met with Comey at the White House shortly after his inauguration. “He’s become more famous than me!” Trump said, to the amusement of the other law enforcement officials in the room.
    Update: The New York Times points to Comey’s comment during testimony before Congress last week, including his saying that he felt “slightly nauseous” at having potentially altered the course of the 2016 election.
    The more resonant possibility for seeking Comey’s ouster is, of course, the Russia investigation. Trump’s feelings about the inquiry are immediately obvious; the president who not only wears his feelings on his sleeve but then tweets out a picture of them has repeatedly complained about the ongoing questions about whether and how his campaign staff members may have colluded with Russian efforts to intervene on his behalf.
    Since the election, Trump has tweeted complaints about the Russia investigation more than 40 times. Most recently, he complained about the inquiry on Monday, after a Senate committee heard testimony on the subject from former acting attorney general Sally Yates. In that tweet, he called for an end to the investigation.

    Politico reports that Trump’s behind-the-scenes attitude about the investigation was not any more tempered.
    “He had grown enraged by the Russia investigation, two advisers said, frustrated by his inability to control the mushrooming narrative around Russia,” Politico’s Josh Dawsey reported. “He repeatedly asked aides why the Russia investigation wouldn’t disappear and demanded they speak out for him. He would sometimes scream at television clips about the probe, one adviser said.”
    The various investigations of Russia’s election tampering have flummoxed Trump for months, consistently unearthing embarrassing details. If there were no links between the campaign and Russia, as Trump and his team assert, the president’s frustrations would be understandable — but one traditional response to such investigations is to cooperate fully in the hopes that the queries will wrap up quickly.
    Trump has chosen another tack. Whether that’s a function of his natural temperament or of concern for what will be unearthed is not clear. What is clear is that Trump’s interest in getting rid of Comey has meant that he probably has made his Russia problems worse.
    There’s one more overarching contradiction that suggests that Trump’s publicly offered motivation for dumping Comey may not have been sincere.
    On Monday, Yates testified that she warned the White House on Jan. 26 that then-national security adviser Michael T. Flynn might be compromised by Russia. The White House didn’t react to that information until mid-February, after The Washington Post reported that Flynn had been recorded having an improper discussion with the Russian ambassador to the United States. The administration has repeatedly insisted that the intervening time period was spent investigating Flynn’s behavior and that his forced resignation was unrelated to the news reports.
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    The Rosenstein letter was dated May 9 — Tuesday. Comey was gone within hours. Flynn was a Trump loyalist. Comey was not.
    By the way, the person who actually recommended Comey’s termination, Sessions, came under fire for meeting with the Russian ambassador and not revealing it when the Senate questioned him. As a result, Sessions announced that he would be recusing himself from any investigation of Russian activity.
    That apparently didn’t include pushing to fire the person running it.
    Update: The Post’s Ashley Parker reports that last week, Comey “requested more money and resources from the Justice Department for his bureau’s investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.”
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    Doesn't matter Comey is still fired

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    If Comrade Trumpsky is true to form, with every new day we'll get a new reason.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    If Comrade Trumpsky is true to form, with every new day we'll get a new reason.
    Do you want Comey back?

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    Quote Originally Posted by I Love America View Post
    Do you want Comey back?
    I want Trumpsky impeached, removed from office and placed in a mental hospital where he belongs.
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    ROFL @ "Constitutional Crisis"

    Of course, the elephant in the room is the ongoing investigation into whether people associated with Trump's campaign had contact with Russia during the election.
    no.. the question is if there was collusion between Russia and the campaign

    Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine, picked up on this after news of Comey's firing Tuesday,, "Trump firing Comey shows how frightened the Admin is over Russia investigation."
    LOL...frightened of WHAT? Comey cleared Trump of being a target
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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    ROFL @ "Constitutional Crisis"

    no.. the question is if there was collusion between Russia and the campaign

    LOL...frightened of WHAT? Comey cleared Trump of being a target
    Yeah, sure annette. If it comes out of Trumpsky's mouth or out of his ass, you'll swallow it and ask for more.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    Yeah, sure annette. If it comes out of Trumpsky's mouth or out of his ass, you'll swallow it and ask for more.
    I think you are replacing Rune as the most idiot rebuttal poster of JPP.. congrats
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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    I think you are replacing Rune as the most idiot rebuttal poster of JPP.. congrats
    Whereas you have cemented your reputation as the most idiot(ic) Trump gizz-guzzler of JPP... congrats on that.
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    hopefully it is clear by now to everyone,

    "Im the boss, and you're fired"

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    Trump is threatening people publicly in his tweets. Something about "Comey better hope their are no tapes before leaking."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    Just hours after the FBI sent a letter Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee clarifying his testimony in relation to the Hillary Clinton email scandal, FBI Director James Comey was fired.

    "Today, President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office," White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement. "President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions."

    Trump's
    Excuse.....all he knows is HE HAS THE POWER to just do it.....and you possess no power to stop it. Funny thing is the fact that less than 100 days ago....the liberals wanted Comey's head on stick. Now another 180 as they grasp at the political feather floating by and claim that Comey is the best thing since sliced bread and they supported him all along.....I simply love watching the changes in the SWAMP.

    Trump actually has the left reading and attempting to support the Constitution of the United States.....he has the progressives claiming to be neoconservative in relation to patriotism and even has them attacking their mother country RUSSIA.

    If only there was a way to keep these 180 degree changes in place......its a dream, but it could happen.
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