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Have you considered a very practical reason to get rid of Comey?
Think about this. Trump slides into office and finds that people working in the highest levels of government are all appointed by Obama, and are political partisan hacks leaking info and put in place to 1.) aid Hillary, but she's not on office 2.) are now Partisans acting as saboteurs "behind enemy lines"
Trump realizes that he must clean house. He gets the word from Sessions that Comey is not going to help, and will probably protect those imbedded, and needs to go.
This is all very plausible. For those of you not happy with Trump's progress so far, take this scenario to heart. Obama appointed a lot of little Progressive, Socialist anti-Capitalist bastards throughout the government and to the courts. The can do massive damage and it might be a monumental undertaking to clean that Obama crap up. In doing so, Trump can restock the government with people not bent on the destruction of America as we know. First, get someone at the FBI that will follow the Rule of law and not the Rule of Partisans, second, clean out the moles, leakers, and Progressive operatives still working for Obama, Clinton and Soros and that cause.
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Well, yeah..... Zero didn't appoint people to positions of power who wouldn't play with his balls and the DNC's, including Comey. I thought the "advisory" letter, documenting all the former AG, etc opinions of Comey's misbehavior was right on., and nicely flushed the toilet. Heck, Trump doesn't even have to wipe after that one, tho the left will insist he just aborted a baby and flushed it live.
Trump has many more to go...
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I wish Trump could fire judges that easy. The FBI can arrest them but the judges are the ones who decide their guilt.
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Have you considered a very practical reason to get rid of Comey?
Think about this. Trump slides into office and finds that people working in the highest levels of government are all appointed by Obama, and are political partisan hacks leaking info and put in place to 1.) aid Hillary, but she's not on office 2.) are now Partisans acting as saboteurs "behind enemy lines"
Trump realizes that he must clean house. He gets the word from Sessions that Comey is not going to help, and will probably protect those imbedded, and needs to go.
This is all very plausible. For those of you not happy with Trump's progress so far, take this scenario to heart. Obama appointed a lot of little Progressive, Socialist anti-Capitalist bastards throughout the government and to the courts. The can do massive damage and it might be a monumental undertaking to clean that Obama crap up. In doing so, Trump can restock the government with people not bent on the destruction of America as we know. First, get someone at the FBI that will follow the Rule of law and not the Rule of Partisans, second, clean out the moles, leakers, and Progressive operatives still working for Obama, Clinton and Soros and that cause. No question that the AIC infused the entire gov't with a-holes... Trump's got a yuge job ahead to get rid of as many of those moles as possible..
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I think he did it because Comey wasn't looking into leaks. Probably because those investigations would lead right back to the FBI and Comey.
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Pretty obvious who the leaker was. The Asst AG
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In such a case, the obvious question is how much info Comey has managed to eliminate....
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Pretty obvious who the leaker was. The Asst AG Explain. Not sure I got that one.
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If she was the leaker, she perjured herself this week.
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There wasn't "A" leaker.
There's several.
Obama landmines are everywhere.
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Or maybe the real reasons forTrump firing Comey were precisely the ones articulated in the president's letter. Namely, that Comey usurped prosecutorial discretion with his silly press conferences. Why do you folks conclude that his decision had to be duplicitous?
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No doubt president Trump had many reasons to fire Comey, but why do you assume the main one was not exactly the one outlined in the president's letter?
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Or maybe the real reasons forTrump firing Comey were precisely the ones articulated in the president's letter. Namely, that Comey usurped prosecutorial discretion with his silly press conferences. Why do you folks conclude that his decision had to be duplicitous? Comey was fired for just reasons. When Comey came out publicly on all that Hillary investigation, I loved it! But, I know enough about how things work to know that it was VERY strange when he did, and how he did it. Beyond all reason. Then, when Comey stood in front of national TV and told everyone Hillary didn't have enough "intent" to be prosecuted, after just a few minutes before outlining all her criminal activities, he threw mud in the face of the entire criminal justice system in our country. He was fired for just grounds. But, beyond that, through the past few years, the FBI had been used as a weapon against the American public. Along with MANY other departments in the Obama administration. There's still lots of swamp that needs to be drained. The Obama administration is the most corrupt in American history. We don't even know a drop in the bucket.
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Have you considered a very practical reason to get rid of Comey?
Think about this. Trump slides into office and finds that people working in the highest levels of government are all appointed by Obama, and are political partisan hacks leaking info and put in place to 1.) aid Hillary, but she's not on office 2.) are now Partisans acting as saboteurs "behind enemy lines"
Trump realizes that he must clean house. He gets the word from Sessions that Comey is not going to help, and will probably protect those imbedded, and needs to go.
This is all very plausible. For those of you not happy with Trump's progress so far, take this scenario to heart. Obama appointed a lot of little Progressive, Socialist anti-Capitalist bastards throughout the government and to the courts. The can do massive damage and it might be a monumental undertaking to clean that Obama crap up. In doing so, Trump can restock the government with people not bent on the destruction of America as we know. First, get someone at the FBI that will follow the Rule of law and not the Rule of Partisans, second, clean out the moles, leakers, and Progressive operatives still working for Obama, Clinton and Soros and that cause. No offense but ftw? I mean, why else? Comey ain't incompetent. These turds like Comey, Emmanual and Lynch, et al are traitors of the worst sort. Probably hired by Soros.
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No doubt president Trump had many reasons to fire Comey, but why do you assume the main one was not exactly the one outlined in the president's letter? Those were the reasons listed. The real reasons are that Comey was a Globalist traitor to the USA. Truly an enemy of the people. If Hillary doesn't have him killed, look for him to go to work for her.
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Nerws week (not that it has be relevent for 2 decades) is already spinning it. 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 letter terminating Comey quickly leaked online.
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"While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau," Trump wrote. "It is essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission."
Here are a few reasons, both stated and possible, Comey may have been canned:
He hurt the FBI's reputation
A memorandum prepared by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein recommending Comey's termination kicks off with the fact that "over the past year ... the FBI's reputation and credibility have suffered substantial damage, and it has affected the entire Department of Justice."
He mishandled the Clinton email investigation
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Rosenstein writes that Comey should not have given a news conference last July recommending that Clinton, who used a private email server while secretary of state, not face criminal charges. The deputy attorney general writes that Comey should have turned his findings over to federal prosecutors. He also takes issue with Comey's decision to send a letter just days before the November election revealing newly discovered Clinton emails. "When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information," the letter states.
He broke with tradition
Rosenstein cites several attorneys general and other authorities who decried Comey's actions as a "departure from the department's widely respected, nonpartisan traditions." Rosenstein writes that "we should reject the departure and return to the traditions."
Trump doesn't like him
Simply judging from his tweets, the president and Comey have had a rocky relationship. As Axios laid out, Trump first criticized the director online in July after that fateful, aforementioned news conference. Trump used the hashtag #RiggedSystem. By October, when he was bringing attention to a new cache of Clinton emails, Trump loved him—but in November, when Comey said he hadn't actually found material that justified charges, the pendulum had swung again.
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"You can't review 650,000 new emails in eight days. You can't do it, folks," Trump said at a rally. "Hillary Clinton is guilty. She knows it, the FBI knows it, the people know it."
Trump is embarrassed by him
The president recently accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, of wiretapping his phones during the campaign. Comey has shut down this allegation, explaining that Obama could not order a wiretap of anyone's phone unchecked.
"I have no information that supports those tweets, and we have looked carefully inside the FBI," Comey said in March. "The Department of Justice has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same for the Department of Justice and all its components. The department has no information that supports those tweets."
He knows something about Russia
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. Comey confirmed the probe in March.
"We approach this work in an open-minded, independent way and our expert investigators will conclude that work as quickly as they can, but they will always do it well no matter how long that takes," he said, according to a transcript of his remarks. "I can promise you, we will follow the facts wherever they lead."
Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine, picked up on this after news of Comey's firing Tuesday, tweeting, "Trump firing Comey shows how frightened the Admin is over Russia investigation."
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The only reason he wasn't fired on Trump's first day of office was because they knew how the media would spin it.
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Its simple. Comey sealed his fate after his July 5 news conference. He became the chief investigator and chief prosecutor. That is a usurpation of power and a blurring of the judiciary lines of responsibility. The Dems and media will spin it into a Trump/Russian cover-up. They will demand a special prosecutor. They are morons, but we have known this for quite some time.
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The only reason he wasn't fired on Trump's first day of office was because they knew how the media would spin it. Trump didn't have his own Justice Dept. in place. All that was there were Obama shills. One less after yesterday.
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The only reason he wasn't fired on Trump's first day of office was because they knew how the media would spin it. No, President Trump had to wait for his DOJ to be in place to supply him with "official" reasons and documents. That didn't happen until April 24, when Rosenstein was confirmed.
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