The real reason Trump fired Comey (simpler than you think)

[Qball]

I've heard and read a lot of analysis about the Comey firing this week. I think most of it is a breathless and overworked. The reason Trump fired Comey, and the reason he did so in the way he did, is simple: He wanted to give the finger to Comey and anybody else who thinks he colluded with Russia to win the election.

We've been talking about a possible Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy for, what, almost eight months? Really since about ten minutes after Trump beat the odds and won the election, people have been seeking to undermine his win. Trump might be petty (as hell) and impetuous, but he's pragmatic, and has clearly demonstrated good political instincts.

Trump's thoughts on this is that he knows deep down that he did nothing wrong. He didn't call up Putin or anybody else and have them "meddle" in the election. He's probably still skeptical it was even Russia who was behind the DNC being hacked, and even if it was a hack and Russia did it, Hillary managed to win 2.5 million more votes than him in the election but she couldn't pull off 100K between three states she barely bothered to campaign in.

He was pissed off that Comey won't simply go on record and say what he knows is true and what Comey has told him, which is that while Trump was implicated in the narrative simply because it was a political controversy, they have found no evidence of collusion on his part, and he is no longer being investigated. He won't correct the narrative by saying that this is a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal one (the difference being the latter has a legal framework and strings attached that require the FBI, at some point, wrap up the investigation; the former can go on in perpetuity since they're dealing with hostile foreign actors). In addition, per Sally Yates, the FBI isn't terribly interested in determining who leaked Mike Flynn's name, something that constituted an actual violation of federal law.

He also knows that Democrats and the media have been beating the drum of him colluding with Russia and would like the cloud of an FBI investigation to linger over his head so they can justify #Resistance for the next 2-4 years.

So Trump, true to form, fired Comey out of the blue. It wasn't impulsive nor was it stupid. If he had done it "diplomatically", we would've been subjected to further headlines from "sources" saying Trump was trying to manage Comey out "just as the Russia investigation ramps up", which I'm sure he knew. He wasn't concerned with looking guilty as a result of it because to most of his detractors he looks guilty anyway.

Trump's talent is being able to convey and to channel his supporters' sense of "fuck you". He doesn't give a shit about how it looks; not because he's so impulsive that he can't be bothered with the optics, but because he isn't concerned about looking innocent and he's not about to lay down for people who don't fuck with him to begin with. If you believe Trump cheated to win the election, he could've fired Comey, not fired Comey, or did the hokie-pokie and turned himself around, and you would still believe the same thing.

 

[yiostheoy]

Nope.

I believe it was due to Comey's public statement about no evidence for a FISA warrant on Trump Towers.

CEO's get really pissed of you contradict them. Even if you are right and they are dead wrong. Same as Trump.

 

[william the wie]

I don't know the exact count to date but by keeping Ds mad as hell they are self radicalizing and losing elections that should have been gimmes. The Ds are scaring independents through their irrational reaction to Trump and they are likely to lose even more of their bench. Worse yet they are threatening primary challenges for their more moderate incumbents.

 

[Muhammed]

It was ancient aliens, or so ancient alien theorists believe....



.....dumbasses!

 

[EverCurious]

"CEOs get really pissed of you contradict them."

I can tell you've never been one lol

Us leader types actually have a lot "more" respect for folks that push back on us than we do yes men. We respect conviction, energy, and actually rather get off on the alpha wolf games ya'll underlings will never understand. Take a minute to think about all the shit Cruz and Trump threw at each other during the run off, watch some of their arguments, you can see the smug enjoyment in both of them. It's not anger, not hate, but amusement. Entertainment you might even say. Like I'm well known for saying my [ex]husband is an asshole, and I tell my friends to call me a cock-holster instead of a bitch. It's a different level of connection than you snowflakes can handle, and it's why you hate the way President Trump talks, and likely the same goes for your boss/manager/CEO, because you cannot comprehend respect in any form but the pathetic roll over and show your belly manner. There is an inherent respect between wealthy businessmen that underpins everything, we don't start out at this base level of "dislike" you normal people do, we start out at a higher level because obviously this person did something to get where they're at. When you start out at that higher level of "relationship" it changes things and makes "feisty" commentary little more than a grumble to us - where as to non "alpha leaders" it's a live or die snarling insult.

 

[Penelope]

He's taller than Trump. a showboat and a grandstander. Pure male jealousy.

 

[kyzr]

Trump wants more heat on the Obama admin for the illegal surveillance, a conclusion to the "collusion" fairy-tale, and a positive news cycle?!

 

[JoeB131]

There is an inherent respect between wealthy businessmen that underpins everything, we don't start out at this base level of "dislike" you normal people do, we start out at a higher level because obviously this person did something to get where they're at.

Wow, what an inflated ego>>>>>

 

[midcan5]

Trump groupies are so fascinating, every other sentence is a lie or distortion but that's OK with them because he pretends to hate the same groups or media sources. The conservatives demonization of media began long ago, and as Goebbels said so often, tell a lie over and over again and they believe. Trump said why he fired Comey, it was over the Russian investigation. Or was he lying then too? Is Qball a bot? Who knows, there is plenty of information thankfully in our media to know fact from fiction. One of those things is Trump is playing a game with American values and it behooves all to pay attention. He is certainly not a smart man but that is his danger as he knows the salesman's lie.

Trump: Officials say no Russia collusion

"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will." Joseph Goebbels

Trump groupies will of course follow and cheer, for others see links.

Trump the Truth: Free Expression in the President’s First 100 Days - PEN America
All the President's Flip-Flops
Perspective | Trump can’t stop saying things that aren’t true

"The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious." Joseph Goebbels

 

[toomuchtime_]

I've heard and read a lot of analysis about the Comey firing this week. I think most of it is a breathless and overworked. The reason Trump fired Comey, and the reason he did so in the way he did, is simple: He wanted to give the finger to Comey and anybody else who thinks he colluded with Russia to win the election.

We've been talking about a possible Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy for, what, almost eight months? Really since about ten minutes after Trump beat the odds and won the election, people have been seeking to undermine his win. Trump might be petty (as hell) and impetuous, but he's pragmatic, and has clearly demonstrated good political instincts.

Trump's thoughts on this is that he knows deep down that he did nothing wrong. He didn't call up Putin or anybody else and have them "meddle" in the election. He's probably still skeptical it was even Russia who was behind the DNC being hacked, and even if it was a hack and Russia did it, Hillary managed to win 2.5 million more votes than him in the election but she couldn't pull off 100K between three states she barely bothered to campaign in.

He was pissed off that Comey won't simply go on record and say what he knows is true and what Comey has told him, which is that while Trump was implicated in the narrative simply because it was a political controversy, they have found no evidence of collusion on his part, and he is no longer being investigated. He won't correct the narrative by saying that this is a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal one (the difference being the latter has a legal framework and strings attached that require the FBI, at some point, wrap up the investigation; the former can go on in perpetuity since they're dealing with hostile foreign actors). In addition, per Sally Yates, the FBI isn't terribly interested in determining who leaked Mike Flynn's name, something that constituted an actual violation of federal law.

He also knows that Democrats and the media have been beating the drum of him colluding with Russia and would like the cloud of an FBI investigation to linger over his head so they can justify #Resistance for the next 2-4 years.

So Trump, true to form, fired Comey out of the blue. It wasn't impulsive nor was it stupid. If he had done it "diplomatically", we would've been subjected to further headlines from "sources" saying Trump was trying to manage Comey out "just as the Russia investigation ramps up", which I'm sure he knew. He wasn't concerned with looking guilty as a result of it because to most of his detractors he looks guilty anyway.

Trump's talent is being able to convey and to channel his supporters' sense of "fuck you". He doesn't give a shit about how it looks; not because he's so impulsive that he can't be bothered with the optics, but because he isn't concerned about looking innocent and he's not about to lay down for people who don't fuck with him to begin with. If you believe Trump cheated to win the election, he could've fired Comey, not fired Comey, or did the hokie-pokie and turned himself around, and you would still believe the same thing.

I think why Comey was fired and why it was done now are two entirely separate questions. While Comey may have been a competent administrator he clearly didn't have the backbone to avoid being bullied into political issues by the corrupt Obama administration, so he meekly followed Lynch's efforts to cover up crimes in connection with the Clinton email server and shut down the investigation of the Clinton Foundation over the objections of his own agents for fear of being accused of interfering with the election and then, perhaps out of feelings of self disgust about these cowardly actions, he sent that letter to Congress in a clumsy attempt to assert his independence. After the election he continued to grandstand, as the President correctly asserted, on the baseless Trump Russia investigation in a foolish attempt to dispel allegations he had thrown the election in favor of Trump and finally he blatantly lied to the Senate about how many emails and how much classified material was on Antony Weiner's computer to try to answer these same accusations of having cost Clinton the election with the letter to Congress. All of these things show clearly that by character and temperament Comey was unfit for the job of FBI Director. That's why he was fired.

I believe he was fired at this time because the WH mistakenly believed after he lied to the Senate about his reasons for writing that final letter, Democrats would have no choice but to support this action, but the Trump WH clearly had no idea how profoundly corrupt the leadership of the Democratic Party is.

 

[Care4all]

Nope.

I believe it was due to Comey's public statement about no evidence for a FISA warrant on Trump Towers.

CEO's get really pissed of you contradict them. Even if you are right and they are dead wrong. Same as Trump.

Only CEOs of a company of one.....

Trump has never worked for anyone but himself....this is what he struggles with....he has no idea how to work with other people that are public servants and not Trump servants.

 

[Care4all]

I've heard and read a lot of analysis about the Comey firing this week. I think most of it is a breathless and overworked. The reason Trump fired Comey, and the reason he did so in the way he did, is simple: He wanted to give the finger to Comey and anybody else who thinks he colluded with Russia to win the election.

We've been talking about a possible Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy for, what, almost eight months? Really since about ten minutes after Trump beat the odds and won the election, people have been seeking to undermine his win. Trump might be petty (as hell) and impetuous, but he's pragmatic, and has clearly demonstrated good political instincts.

Trump's thoughts on this is that he knows deep down that he did nothing wrong. He didn't call up Putin or anybody else and have them "meddle" in the election. He's probably still skeptical it was even Russia who was behind the DNC being hacked, and even if it was a hack and Russia did it, Hillary managed to win 2.5 million more votes than him in the election but she couldn't pull off 100K between three states she barely bothered to campaign in.

He was pissed off that Comey won't simply go on record and say what he knows is true and what Comey has told him, which is that while Trump was implicated in the narrative simply because it was a political controversy, they have found no evidence of collusion on his part, and he is no longer being investigated. He won't correct the narrative by saying that this is a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal one (the difference being the latter has a legal framework and strings attached that require the FBI, at some point, wrap up the investigation; the former can go on in perpetuity since they're dealing with hostile foreign actors). In addition, per Sally Yates, the FBI isn't terribly interested in determining who leaked Mike Flynn's name, something that constituted an actual violation of federal law.

He also knows that Democrats and the media have been beating the drum of him colluding with Russia and would like the cloud of an FBI investigation to linger over his head so they can justify #Resistance for the next 2-4 years.

So Trump, true to form, fired Comey out of the blue. It wasn't impulsive nor was it stupid. If he had done it "diplomatically", we would've been subjected to further headlines from "sources" saying Trump was trying to manage Comey out "just as the Russia investigation ramps up", which I'm sure he knew. He wasn't concerned with looking guilty as a result of it because to most of his detractors he looks guilty anyway.

Trump's talent is being able to convey and to channel his supporters' sense of "fuck you". He doesn't give a shit about how it looks; not because he's so impulsive that he can't be bothered with the optics, but because he isn't concerned about looking innocent and he's not about to lay down for people who don't fuck with him to begin with. If you believe Trump cheated to win the election, he could've fired Comey, not fired Comey, or did the hokie-pokie and turned himself around, and you would still believe the same thing.

I think why Comey was fired and why it was done now are two entirely separate questions. While Comey may have been a competent administrator he clearly didn't have the backbone to avoid being bullied into political issues by the corrupt Obama administration, so he meekly followed Lynch's efforts to cover up crimes in connection with the Clinton email server and shut down the investigation of the Clinton Foundation over the objections of his own agents for fear of being accused of interfering with the election and then, perhaps out of feelings of self disgust about these cowardly actions, he sent that letter to Congress in a clumsy attempt to assert his independence. After the election he continued to grandstand, as the President correctly asserted, on the baseless Trump Russia investigation in a foolish attempt to dispel allegations he had thrown the election in favor of Trump and finally he blatantly lied to the Senate about how many emails and how much classified material was on Antony Weiner's computer to try to answer these same accusations of having cost Clinton the election with the letter to Congress. All of these things show clearly that by character and temperament Comey was unfit for the job of FBI Director. That's why he was fired.

I believe he was fired at this time because the WH mistakenly believed after he lied to the Senate about his reasons for writing that final letter, Democrats would have no choice but to support this action, but the Trump WH clearly had no idea how profoundly corrupt the leadership of the Democratic Party is.

Wow!

Could not disagree any more than I do! You are wrong on most everything in your post!

BOY oh BOY is our country in trouble when 2 decent citizens can see things SOOOO differently!!!

 

[gipper]

I don't know the exact count to date but by keeping Ds mad as hell they are self radicalizing and losing elections that should have been gimmes. The Ds are scaring independents through their irrational reaction to Trump and they are likely to lose even more of their bench. Worse yet they are threatening primary challenges for their more moderate incumbents.

Just think if Hillary had won and fired Comey, the entire Left would have celebrated.

That should tell us all something.

 

[Iceweasel]

Trump groupies are so fascinating, every other sentence is a lie or distortion but that's OK with them because he pretends to hate the same groups or media sources. The conservatives demonization of media began long ago, and as Goebbels said so often, tell a lie over and over again and they believe. Trump said why he fired Comey, it was over the Russian investigation. Or was he lying then too? Is Qball a bot? Who knows, there is plenty of information thankfully in our media to know fact from fiction. One of those things is Trump is playing a game with American values and it behooves all to pay attention. He is certainly not a smart man but that is his danger as he knows the salesman's lie.

Trump: Officials say no Russia collusion

"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will." Joseph Goebbels

You are ass backwards. First off, maggot, people in this country are innocent until proven guilty. The desperate Russia angle has been combed through for many months now with no evidence. There's nothing there, the propaganda is all yours. The NAZIs didn't need evidence either so you projections are comical. That's the best your corrupt little pea brain can come up with?

 

[Billo_Really]

I've heard and read a lot of analysis about the Comey firing this week. I think most of it is a breathless and overworked. The reason Trump fired Comey, and the reason he did so in the way he did, is simple: He wanted to give the finger to Comey and anybody else who thinks he colluded with Russia to win the election.

We've been talking about a possible Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy for, what, almost eight months? Really since about ten minutes after Trump beat the odds and won the election, people have been seeking to undermine his win. Trump might be petty (as hell) and impetuous, but he's pragmatic, and has clearly demonstrated good political instincts.

Trump's thoughts on this is that he knows deep down that he did nothing wrong. He didn't call up Putin or anybody else and have them "meddle" in the election. He's probably still skeptical it was even Russia who was behind the DNC being hacked, and even if it was a hack and Russia did it, Hillary managed to win 2.5 million more votes than him in the election but she couldn't pull off 100K between three states she barely bothered to campaign in.

He was pissed off that Comey won't simply go on record and say what he knows is true and what Comey has told him, which is that while Trump was implicated in the narrative simply because it was a political controversy, they have found no evidence of collusion on his part, and he is no longer being investigated. He won't correct the narrative by saying that this is a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal one (the difference being the latter has a legal framework and strings attached that require the FBI, at some point, wrap up the investigation; the former can go on in perpetuity since they're dealing with hostile foreign actors). In addition, per Sally Yates, the FBI isn't terribly interested in determining who leaked Mike Flynn's name, something that constituted an actual violation of federal law.

He also knows that Democrats and the media have been beating the drum of him colluding with Russia and would like the cloud of an FBI investigation to linger over his head so they can justify #Resistance for the next 2-4 years.

So Trump, true to form, fired Comey out of the blue. It wasn't impulsive nor was it stupid. If he had done it "diplomatically", we would've been subjected to further headlines from "sources" saying Trump was trying to manage Comey out "just as the Russia investigation ramps up", which I'm sure he knew. He wasn't concerned with looking guilty as a result of it because to most of his detractors he looks guilty anyway.

Trump's talent is being able to convey and to channel his supporters' sense of "fuck you". He doesn't give a shit about how it looks; not because he's so impulsive that he can't be bothered with the optics, but because he isn't concerned about looking innocent and he's not about to lay down for people who don't fuck with him to begin with. If you believe Trump cheated to win the election, he could've fired Comey, not fired Comey, or did the hokie-pokie and turned himself around, and you would still believe the same thing.

Have you seen the Dutch investigation?

 

[Billo_Really]

You are ass backwards. First off, maggot, people in this country are innocent until proven guilty.

Tell that to the immigrants being rounded up in the streets.

 

[Norman]

I've heard and read a lot of analysis about the Comey firing this week. I think most of it is a breathless and overworked. The reason Trump fired Comey, and the reason he did so in the way he did, is simple: He wanted to give the finger to Comey and anybody else who thinks he colluded with Russia to win the election.

We've been talking about a possible Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy for, what, almost eight months? Really since about ten minutes after Trump beat the odds and won the election, people have been seeking to undermine his win. Trump might be petty (as hell) and impetuous, but he's pragmatic, and has clearly demonstrated good political instincts.

Trump's thoughts on this is that he knows deep down that he did nothing wrong. He didn't call up Putin or anybody else and have them "meddle" in the election. He's probably still skeptical it was even Russia who was behind the DNC being hacked, and even if it was a hack and Russia did it, Hillary managed to win 2.5 million more votes than him in the election but she couldn't pull off 100K between three states she barely bothered to campaign in.

He was pissed off that Comey won't simply go on record and say what he knows is true and what Comey has told him, which is that while Trump was implicated in the narrative simply because it was a political controversy, they have found no evidence of collusion on his part, and he is no longer being investigated. He won't correct the narrative by saying that this is a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal one (the difference being the latter has a legal framework and strings attached that require the FBI, at some point, wrap up the investigation; the former can go on in perpetuity since they're dealing with hostile foreign actors). In addition, per Sally Yates, the FBI isn't terribly interested in determining who leaked Mike Flynn's name, something that constituted an actual violation of federal law.

He also knows that Democrats and the media have been beating the drum of him colluding with Russia and would like the cloud of an FBI investigation to linger over his head so they can justify #Resistance for the next 2-4 years.

So Trump, true to form, fired Comey out of the blue. It wasn't impulsive nor was it stupid. If he had done it "diplomatically", we would've been subjected to further headlines from "sources" saying Trump was trying to manage Comey out "just as the Russia investigation ramps up", which I'm sure he knew. He wasn't concerned with looking guilty as a result of it because to most of his detractors he looks guilty anyway.

Trump's talent is being able to convey and to channel his supporters' sense of "fuck you". He doesn't give a shit about how it looks; not because he's so impulsive that he can't be bothered with the optics, but because he isn't concerned about looking innocent and he's not about to lay down for people who don't fuck with him to begin with. If you believe Trump cheated to win the election, he could've fired Comey, not fired Comey, or did the hokie-pokie and turned himself around, and you would still believe the same thing.

If it's so simple why are there 4 lengthy paragraphs, talks about Russian conspiracies and what not?

Here is the simple reason:
1. He was incompetent, made official misstatements and it was recommended he be gone.

Here is what left wingers thought about the firing, BEFORE CNN propaganda specialists telling them what to think collectively:

 

[toomuchtime_]

I've heard and read a lot of analysis about the Comey firing this week. I think most of it is a breathless and overworked. The reason Trump fired Comey, and the reason he did so in the way he did, is simple: He wanted to give the finger to Comey and anybody else who thinks he colluded with Russia to win the election.

We've been talking about a possible Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy for, what, almost eight months? Really since about ten minutes after Trump beat the odds and won the election, people have been seeking to undermine his win. Trump might be petty (as hell) and impetuous, but he's pragmatic, and has clearly demonstrated good political instincts.

Trump's thoughts on this is that he knows deep down that he did nothing wrong. He didn't call up Putin or anybody else and have them "meddle" in the election. He's probably still skeptical it was even Russia who was behind the DNC being hacked, and even if it was a hack and Russia did it, Hillary managed to win 2.5 million more votes than him in the election but she couldn't pull off 100K between three states she barely bothered to campaign in.

He was pissed off that Comey won't simply go on record and say what he knows is true and what Comey has told him, which is that while Trump was implicated in the narrative simply because it was a political controversy, they have found no evidence of collusion on his part, and he is no longer being investigated. He won't correct the narrative by saying that this is a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal one (the difference being the latter has a legal framework and strings attached that require the FBI, at some point, wrap up the investigation; the former can go on in perpetuity since they're dealing with hostile foreign actors). In addition, per Sally Yates, the FBI isn't terribly interested in determining who leaked Mike Flynn's name, something that constituted an actual violation of federal law.

He also knows that Democrats and the media have been beating the drum of him colluding with Russia and would like the cloud of an FBI investigation to linger over his head so they can justify #Resistance for the next 2-4 years.

So Trump, true to form, fired Comey out of the blue. It wasn't impulsive nor was it stupid. If he had done it "diplomatically", we would've been subjected to further headlines from "sources" saying Trump was trying to manage Comey out "just as the Russia investigation ramps up", which I'm sure he knew. He wasn't concerned with looking guilty as a result of it because to most of his detractors he looks guilty anyway.

Trump's talent is being able to convey and to channel his supporters' sense of "fuck you". He doesn't give a shit about how it looks; not because he's so impulsive that he can't be bothered with the optics, but because he isn't concerned about looking innocent and he's not about to lay down for people who don't fuck with him to begin with. If you believe Trump cheated to win the election, he could've fired Comey, not fired Comey, or did the hokie-pokie and turned himself around, and you would still believe the same thing.

I think why Comey was fired and why it was done now are two entirely separate questions. While Comey may have been a competent administrator he clearly didn't have the backbone to avoid being bullied into political issues by the corrupt Obama administration, so he meekly followed Lynch's efforts to cover up crimes in connection with the Clinton email server and shut down the investigation of the Clinton Foundation over the objections of his own agents for fear of being accused of interfering with the election and then, perhaps out of feelings of self disgust about these cowardly actions, he sent that letter to Congress in a clumsy attempt to assert his independence. After the election he continued to grandstand, as the President correctly asserted, on the baseless Trump Russia investigation in a foolish attempt to dispel allegations he had thrown the election in favor of Trump and finally he blatantly lied to the Senate about how many emails and how much classified material was on Antony Weiner's computer to try to answer these same accusations of having cost Clinton the election with the letter to Congress. All of these things show clearly that by character and temperament Comey was unfit for the job of FBI Director. That's why he was fired.

I believe he was fired at this time because the WH mistakenly believed after he lied to the Senate about his reasons for writing that final letter, Democrats would have no choice but to support this action, but the Trump WH clearly had no idea how profoundly corrupt the leadership of the Democratic Party is.

Wow!

Could not disagree any more than I do! You are wrong on most everything in your post!

BOY oh BOY is our country in trouble when 2 decent citizens can see things SOOOO differently!!!

No, we see exactly the same things. The difference between us is that you approve of the deep and pervasive corruption of the Obama administration that bullied and seduced Comey into making political decisions he then tried to cover up and ultimately made him unfit to be the Director of the FBI, and I don't approve of it, so while you may be a citizen, this clearly means you are not a decent citizen.

 

[bodecea]

I don't know the exact count to date but by keeping Ds mad as hell they are self radicalizing and losing elections that should have been gimmes. The Ds are scaring independents through their irrational reaction to Trump and they are likely to lose even more of their bench. Worse yet they are threatening primary challenges for their more moderate incumbents.

Just think if Hillary had won and fired Comey, the entire Left would have celebrated.

That should tell us all something.

We will never know, will we? Because that hasn't happened.....it's only speculation on your part as opposed to what REALLY happened.

 

[bodecea]

I've heard and read a lot of analysis about the Comey firing this week. I think most of it is a breathless and overworked. The reason Trump fired Comey, and the reason he did so in the way he did, is simple: He wanted to give the finger to Comey and anybody else who thinks he colluded with Russia to win the election.

We've been talking about a possible Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy for, what, almost eight months? Really since about ten minutes after Trump beat the odds and won the election, people have been seeking to undermine his win. Trump might be petty (as hell) and impetuous, but he's pragmatic, and has clearly demonstrated good political instincts.

Trump's thoughts on this is that he knows deep down that he did nothing wrong. He didn't call up Putin or anybody else and have them "meddle" in the election. He's probably still skeptical it was even Russia who was behind the DNC being hacked, and even if it was a hack and Russia did it, Hillary managed to win 2.5 million more votes than him in the election but she couldn't pull off 100K between three states she barely bothered to campaign in.

He was pissed off that Comey won't simply go on record and say what he knows is true and what Comey has told him, which is that while Trump was implicated in the narrative simply because it was a political controversy, they have found no evidence of collusion on his part, and he is no longer being investigated. He won't correct the narrative by saying that this is a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal one (the difference being the latter has a legal framework and strings attached that require the FBI, at some point, wrap up the investigation; the former can go on in perpetuity since they're dealing with hostile foreign actors). In addition, per Sally Yates, the FBI isn't terribly interested in determining who leaked Mike Flynn's name, something that constituted an actual violation of federal law.

He also knows that Democrats and the media have been beating the drum of him colluding with Russia and would like the cloud of an FBI investigation to linger over his head so they can justify #Resistance for the next 2-4 years.

So Trump, true to form, fired Comey out of the blue. It wasn't impulsive nor was it stupid. If he had done it "diplomatically", we would've been subjected to further headlines from "sources" saying Trump was trying to manage Comey out "just as the Russia investigation ramps up", which I'm sure he knew. He wasn't concerned with looking guilty as a result of it because to most of his detractors he looks guilty anyway.

Trump's talent is being able to convey and to channel his supporters' sense of "fuck you". He doesn't give a shit about how it looks; not because he's so impulsive that he can't be bothered with the optics, but because he isn't concerned about looking innocent and he's not about to lay down for people who don't fuck with him to begin with. If you believe Trump cheated to win the election, he could've fired Comey, not fired Comey, or did the hokie-pokie and turned himself around, and you would still believe the same thing.

I think why Comey was fired and why it was done now are two entirely separate questions. While Comey may have been a competent administrator he clearly didn't have the backbone to avoid being bullied into political issues by the corrupt Obama administration, so he meekly followed Lynch's efforts to cover up crimes in connection with the Clinton email server and shut down the investigation of the Clinton Foundation over the objections of his own agents for fear of being accused of interfering with the election and then, perhaps out of feelings of self disgust about these cowardly actions, he sent that letter to Congress in a clumsy attempt to assert his independence. After the election he continued to grandstand, as the President correctly asserted, on the baseless Trump Russia investigation in a foolish attempt to dispel allegations he had thrown the election in favor of Trump and finally he blatantly lied to the Senate about how many emails and how much classified material was on Antony Weiner's computer to try to answer these same accusations of having cost Clinton the election with the letter to Congress. All of these things show clearly that by character and temperament Comey was unfit for the job of FBI Director. That's why he was fired.

I believe he was fired at this time because the WH mistakenly believed after he lied to the Senate about his reasons for writing that final letter, Democrats would have no choice but to support this action, but the Trump WH clearly had no idea how profoundly corrupt the leadership of the Democratic Party is.

Wow!

Could not disagree any more than I do! You are wrong on most everything in your post!

BOY oh BOY is our country in trouble when 2 decent citizens can see things SOOOO differently!!!

No, we see exactly the same things. The difference between us is that you approve of the deep and pervasive corruption of the Obama administration that bullied and seduced Comey into making political decisions he then tried to cover up and ultimately made him unfit to be the Director of the FBI, and I don't approve of it, so while you may be a citizen, this clearly means you are not a decent citizen.

Oh look, an exceptionalist!