Trump just fired James Comey

[Deepak]

And he deliberately choose the worst possible option. It took the FBI less than 48 hours to determine there was nothing new in those emails. Comey could have waited. He didn't.

I don't know nearly enough to attribute motive. And I don't think that the last-minute announcement had the impact that people claim. People who were stupid enough to think that the announcement was anything significant were the ones who were already stupid enough to vote for Trump.

Dan Quayle is all three

 

[whichphilosophy]

That's a distinct possibility. If Cheato lasts long enough to become any kind of liability for him, Vlad will dump those pisser tapes on him in a heartbeat.

Do you really think the Trumpsters will care?

You never know; if the relation terminated and the kissing stopped

 

[iolo]

The Clown is clearly going the way of Nixon, but much faster and much more stupidly. The real question is whether it will take another Civil War to get rid of the malign regime of his malignant supporters.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/us/politics/comey-trump-fbi-live.html?_r=0



What a shit show.

Holy fuck! I've been pissed at him since he pulled that stunt against HRC, but this was worse than even he deserved. Fired via "breaking news" television. Wow.

If he was lucky, the tv had Fox News on and he found out he just resigned.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

And he deliberately choose the worst possible option. It took the FBI less than 48 hours to determine there was nothing new in those emails. Comey could have waited. He didn't.

I don't know nearly enough to attribute motive. And I don't think that the last-minute announcement had the impact that people claim.

Actually, I doubt that. This news was followed almost immediately by an actual Fake News story vetted by allies of Rudolph Giuliani about FBI charges being imminent against the Clinton Foundation. Add that followup to the case of where Comey announces the Clinton email investigation is reopening, that implies something significant was uncovered.

Donald Trump won the electoral vote by just 100,000 people total aggregate in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Those stories coming out at the very end could very well have made a significant enough of an impact in those three states.

People who were stupid enough to think that the announcement was anything significant were the ones who were already stupid enough to vote for Trump.

You seem to forget that Trump was elected President, and he needed more than just the dumb partisan vote.

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Holy fuck! I've been pissed at him since he pulled that stunt against HRC, but this was worse than even he deserved. Fired via "breaking news" television. Wow.

That's Trump, keeping it klassy

As noted above, they sent a guy to fire him to the FBI Headquarters. Trouble was, Comey was on the other side of the nation. At least Trump didn't have a Mar a Lago pool boy deliver the news.

 

[ZiprHead]

According to reports talked about this morning on Morning Joe, the Whitehouse was completely surprised about the reaction to Comey's firing. Amateur hour.

 

[funinspace]

If/when this goes south on Il Douchebag, expect North Korea to get nuked.

Later,
ElectEngr

I'm more concerned about El Cheato doing a head fake regarding Iran and getting us into a Yuge bombing war there...ala a Gulf of Tonkin Incident. And today, our sitting Presidents have quite the precedent of launching huge air attacks ignoring their Congressional Critters.

 

[Horatio Parker]

Amazing how Trump's people throw him under the bus.

He had grown enraged by the Russia investigation, two advisers said, frustrated by his inability to control the mushrooming narrative around Russia. 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.

[...]

Trump received letters from Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, and Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, calling for Comey's dismissal, on Tuesday, a spokesman said. The president then decided to fire him based on the recommendations and moved quickly. The spokesman said Trump did not ask for the letters in advance, and that White House officials had no idea they were coming.

But several other people familiar with the events said Trump had talked about the firing for over a week, and the letters were written to give him rationale to fire Comey.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/10/comey-firing-trump-russia-238192

 

[untermensche]

The Clown is clearly going the way of Nixon, but much faster and much more stupidly. The real question is whether it will take another Civil War to get rid of the malign regime of his malignant supporters.

They are paper tigers, the lot of them.

They will get red in the face and sucker punch women, but actually doing something risky is beyond their pampered ignorant lives.

 

[RavenSky]

From the Politico article

Comey had flown on an FBI plane to Los Angeles for a "diversity and recruiting" event. Trump’s director of Oval Office operations, longtime security aide Keith Schiller, hand-delivered the dismissal letter to FBI headquarters.

bolding mine... I think recruiting may be difficult for a while

 

[ElectEngr]

If/when this goes south on Il Douchebag, expect North Korea to get nuked.

Later,
ElectEngr

I'm more concerned about El Cheato doing a head fake regarding Iran and getting us into a Yuge bombing war there...ala a Gulf of Tonkin Incident. And today, our sitting Presidents have quite the precedent of launching huge air attacks ignoring their Congressional Critters.

A very real possibility.

Later,
ElectEngr

 

[Keith&Co.]

I think recruiting may be difficult for a while

I think it'll be amusing. I mean, Comey's 'resignation' is effective RIGHT NOW, and the search for his replacement begins soon....

How many appointees does FFvC still owe?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I think recruiting may be difficult for a while

I think it'll be amusing. I mean, Comey's 'resignation' is effective RIGHT NOW, and the search for his replacement begins soon....

How many appointees does FFvC still owe?

Rudy. Now that wouldn't cause a stir. The guy is a war hero or something.

 

[Artemus]

White House and congressional insiders are already confirming that it was all about the Russian probe. Seems that Trump was surprised by the backlash. He really is stupid.

Instead, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told him he was making a big mistake — and Trump seemed "taken aback," according to a person familiar with the call.

Odds that "a person familiar with the call" had the initials "Chuck Schumer"?

With this many insiders willing to speak out a freshman prosecutor could get a felony conviction for obstruction of justice. We'll see if congress is willing to uphold their oath of office:

I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic....

 

[barbos]

I'm more concerned about El Cheato doing a head fake regarding Iran and getting us into a Yuge bombing war there...ala a Gulf of Tonkin Incident. And today, our sitting Presidents have quite the precedent of launching huge air attacks ignoring their Congressional Critters.

A very real possibility.

Later,
ElectEngr

Military and Pence would have to be on board to pull that off. Trump is pretty much alone on pretty much everything. Chances are good, we will have president Pence before democrats even try to get majority anywhere.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

A very real possibility.

Later,
ElectEngr

Military and Pence would have to be on board to pull that off. Trump is pretty much alone on pretty much everything. Chances are good, we will have president Pence before democrats even try to get majority anywhere.

I wonder if Pence even knew about the firing. The White House kept this thing way too tight.

I'd say bombing Iran is clearly out of the picture and Syria apparently isn't on the map anymore.

 

[funinspace]

A very real possibility.

Later,
ElectEngr

Military and Pence would have to be on board to pull that off. Trump is pretty much alone on pretty much everything.

Pence last February:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pence-warns-iran-testing-trump-administration/story?id=45278909

“Iran would do well not to test the resolve of this new president,” Pence said on “This Week” Sunday, adding that Iran should “think twice about their continued hostile and belligerent actions.”

Then there is SecDef Mad Dog Mattis, who has had a hard on for Iran, for longer than any Viagra could sustain:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/james-mattis-iran-secretary-of-defense-214500

It was back in 2012, while he was still in uniform, that Mattis said that the three gravest threats facing the U.S. were “Iran, Iran, Iran.” In the years since his retirement in 2013, he’s been even more outspoken. He repeated his “Iran, Iran, Iran” mantra last April (in addition to an entirely predictable reference to the Beirut barracks bombing) during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and then explained himself. Iran, he said, is “the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East,” and not really a nation-state at all but “a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.”

Then, Mattis linked Iran to the rise of ISIS. “I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief,” he said. “Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.”

Toss in ratcheting up our military posture in the air and sea around Iran; sprinkle in even more support for Yemen operations; stir in some more name dropping against Iran for supporting the Taliban; push Gen. Nicholson in Afghanistan to find evidence against Iran along their border...what could possibly flair up?

Chances are good, we will have president Pence before democrats even try to get majority anywhere.

That would be a good outcome...

 

[Keith&Co.]

Military and Pence would have to be on board to pull that off.

Pence? Why would Pence be involved? Unless he hid the big red phone someplace and didn't tell Bannon where it is...

Trump would need congress to put boots on the ground... Or anything where a significant number of American soldiers could get shot at.

But pilots swinging in, bombing shit and swinging out again? they live for that shit. And over-the-horizon missiles from a cruiser or an SSGN? That's hardly even like an actual war.

 

[barbos]

Well, don't know about Mad Dog, but I think all these people including Pence are smart enough to realize conspiracies on that scale are no longer possible and there is nothing for them to go down with or for Trump.

 

[barbos]

Military and Pence would have to be on board to pull that off.

Pence? Why would Pence be involved? Unless he hid the big red phone someplace and didn't tell Bannon where it is...

Trump would need congress to put boots on the ground... Or anything where a significant number of American soldiers could get shot at.

But pilots swinging in, bombing shit and swinging out again? they live for that shit. And over-the-horizon missiles from a cruiser or an SSGN? That's hardly even like an actual war.

People suggested some kind of false flag operation, unless Mini-Trumps are doing it all themselves I don't see anyone in the military going along with such thing. The first guy will ask Trump "Why do you want us to do that?" and Trump will have nothing except "Hillary pisses me off"