Trump Fires Comey

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If anyone wants to read the official documents they are available here:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/docume ... OJ-DAG.pdf

The firing recommendation went from Deputy Atty. General Rosenstein, who was just confirmed two weeks ago, to the Attorney General and then to Trump, who accepted their recommendation.

The Memorandum indicates that Comey was fired because of his holding the press conference regarding Hillary back last July. So why now? I know Rosenstein is new, but Comey's behaviour isn't. If Trump was bothered by his behaviour (and he should have been), he should have replaced Comey when he took office.

I found that the Washington Post is painting another picture of why Trump got rid of him. Like I said, the investigation is a witchhunt by the Democrats.

"President Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey on Tuesday, at the recommendation of senior Justice Department officials who said he had treated Hillary Clinton unfairly and in doing so damaged the credibility of the FBI and the Justice Department.

The startling development comes as Comey was leading a counterintelligence investigation to determine whether associates of Trump may have coordinated with Russia to interfere with the U.S. presidential election last year. It wasn’t immediately clear how Comey’s ouster will affect the Russia probe, but Democrats said they were concerned that his ouster could derail the investigation.

(And the Washington Post thought I was going to renew my subscription - phooey!)

Here's more from the Washington Post:

President Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey on Tuesday. And while the termination happened rather quickly — mere hours after Comey's faulty testimony to Congress was revealed — it wasn't altogether a shock.

Over the past several weeks, Trump seemed to be in the market for a reason to get rid of Comey. This was an Obama appointee whom Trump derided during the 2016 campaign for not recommending charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server. Then, in March, Comey announced that the FBI was investigating alleged ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. He also cast doubt on Trump's claim that the Obama administration wiretapped him during the campaign.Against that backdrop, Trump firing Comey is bound to look suspicious. And Democrats are already crying foul, with Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) quickly labeling the move “Nixonian.” But it's also true that if there was any time to fire Comey, Comey just gift-wrapped it to Trump and served it on a platter.

A couple of weeks after Comey made those announcements in March, Trump talked about his job security at length in a pretty conspicuous way, re-litigating the FBI chief's handling of the Clinton investigation. “Don't forget, when Jim Comey came out, he saved Hillary Clinton,” Trump told Fox Business in an interview airing April 12. “People don't realize that. He saved her life, because — I call it Comey won. And I joke about it a little bit. When he was reading those charges, she was guilty on every charge. And then he said she was essentially okay. But he — she wasn't okay, because she was guilty on every charge.

“Director Comey was very, very good to Hillary Clinton, that I can tell you. If he weren't, she would be, right now, going to trial.”

So Trump is now "rushing" to defend Clinton?

The President fired the guy leading the investigation into his ties to Russia. Am I the only one on WP who finds this suspicious?

Comey was hated by everyone(Democrats, Republicans, rank and file FBI) and was not upfront or truthful with congress when questioned, he serves at the discretion of the president and is not an independent branch of the government so whatever his angle is it's not okay. The FBI's handling of these political investigations during the 2016 elections has left a permanent stain on the reputation of the agency. We don't want a J. Edgar Hoover.

There's just something with all of this, that doesn't sit right, with me.....

One of the things that keeps ringing in my ears, is that President Trump THANKED James Comey, in his firing letter to him, for letting him know 3 times that he (President Trump) wasn't being personally investigated (in regard to the Russian collusion in our election).

I dunno.....

I'm thinking something happened----to which we're not privy, obviously----and, something tells me that instead of James Comey being fired because "He wasn't doing a good job" (President Trump said something like that), I'm wondering if maybe he was fired cuz he was doing TOO GOOD of a job (meaning, I have to wonder if President Trump wasn't starting to sweat, for whatever reason, in regard to the Russian probe being directed by James Comey----AND / or, the AG & AAG were, and they advised the president that there was a bad moon on the rise, if he didn't get rid of Comey).

Also, IMO, President Trump firing James Comey in a letter, was incredibly disrespectful----I mean, why the expediency? I'm thinking one usually does something like that, by calling the one about-to-be-fired, into the office, and discussing things with him. I mean, afterall, it is my understanding that that's what was done, with Flynn----I'm thinking that President Trump told Flynn the situation, and let him bow-out, gracefully (say he resigned). With Comey, however, it seems something happened that made the president want to do it, "right now".

These things just don't add-up to "Good!" (several people's response), to me.....

Maybe it was this
Comey Had Asked for More Money for FBI’s Russia Investigation