BREAKING: Trump Fires Comey

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The issue is not his termination but rather the timing of it.

Joel Pollack has suggested a very plausible reason for the timing. James Clapper's testimony on Monday that there was no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and that therefore Trump couldn't be reasonably accused of trying to cover up this conspiracy.

Of course it hasn't stopped Dems and their allies in the media unreasonably accusing Trump in their ever more histrionic pushing of this tired conspiracy theory but there's not much that can be done about that.

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/09/james-comey-simple-explanation/

The biggest problem Camp Trump is going to have trying to sell that narrative is that for months they praised Comey for how he was handling the investigation into Hillary's emails and now all of a sudden they use that as an excuse to fire him.  Worse, in his firing letter, Trump goes out of his way to mention Comey telling Trump three times that he didn't yet have evidence of Trump doing anything illegal vis-a-vis Russia.  It's the sort of mention that makes one think Trump doubted he'd get lucky a fourth time since Comey wouldn't bring the investigation into possible campaign collusion with Russia to a halt.

Actually, what I think sealed Comey's fate was for the last week or so, the narrative had been that Comey's admittedly inept handling of information into the investigation of Clinton's emails was what enabled Trump to win.  Trump likes to believe he won the election all by himself.  The idea that Russia or Comey was what pushed him over the top is simply unacceptable to the crybaby-in-chief.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

NEW REPORTING: Comey is 'not worried about any tapes'
https://twitter.com/vplus/status/863075666144763905

And no doubt Trump isn't worried. He probably thinks any problems the tapes might cause him can be fixed in 18½ minutes.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Can this thread become the 'Russiaism is the new Birtherism' thread? (Gass might want to edit it)

Not really, considering Obama made it through his 8 years without being impeached.   We can't say the same for Trump.

Also, there weren't any FBI investigations of Obama's birth certificate.  One obvious reason: HE PUBLISHED IT.  If you believe that the Russia story is just a conspiracy theory, then surely you're for Trump producing some documentary evidence to debunk it -- like his tax returns?

Well, yes, the FBI was not interested in investigating whether Barry was actually qualified to be President, for whatever reason. If they were....such investigations would have began around January 2008 at the latest, and would have carried on at the minimum 3 years.

I doubt it would have taken the FBI 3 years to get a copy of a birth certificate.  And that assumes they decided to ignore all the other evidence that showed he was born in Hawaii that was already out there.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Can we please forget about the attempts to derail the thread from the fact that the President of the United States was mad at the the Director of the FBI for investigating the President's campaign's ties to a foreign power, so he threw a temper tantrum and fired him?

Actually, I thin Trump was more angry that people kept saying that Comey was responsible for Trump being president instead of Trump himself.  His fragile ego just couldn't handle it.