Yeah....Trump didn't fire comey.....this other guy did...

[Penelope]

The Deputy AG does not have the power to fire the FBI Director.

no shit. Thank goodness nobody said he did, you moron.

Read the title of this thread.

 

[Esmeralda]

This is how it actually happened...but don't let the truth get in your way left wingers...

Administration: Comey fired because of handling of Clinton email investigation

The reason the Trump administration is giving for the firing of James Comey is that the newly confirmed Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein recommended it. Upon taking office, Rosenstein reviewed the matter of Comey’s fitness and concluded that he needed to go.

Rosenstein states his reasoning for this conclusion in a memo to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. You can read the memo here, along with Sessions’ letter to President Trump and Trump’s letter of discharge to Comey.

Rosenstein says Comey needed to go because he mishandled the email investigation of Hillary Clinton and then continued to defend his conduct, most notably in recent congressional testimony. Rosenstein says Comey was wrong to “usurp” the Attorney General’s authority and announce that Clinton wouldn’t be prosecuted and wrong to hold a press conference in which he released derogatory information about Clinton.

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Rosenstein is able to cite past high ranking Justice Department officials Attorney Generals from both parties who strongly share his view that what Comey did was wrong. I have heard partisan Republicans who have worked in the Justice Department take the same position. (It happens that I agree with Comey. In the context of a presidential election and all of the interest in the Clinton email scandal, it would have been wrong for Comey not to state the reasons why he recommended no indictment and wrong not to have laid out the facts for the American people).

So there is no reason to doubt that Rosenstein was appalled by Comey’s conduct and his recent defense of that conduct before Congress. There is also no reason to doubt that he genuinely thinks Comey needed to go as a result of his behavior and the controversy it has generated.

LMAO Alternative facts. Too funny.

 

[koshergrl]

The Deputy AG does not have the power to fire the FBI Director.

That's why he didn't. There was a memo in which the Deputy AG recommended he be fired.

Of course there was.

But which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Who gives s shit? Trump gave Coney top to hang himself and it didn't take long. Draining the swamp.

 

[Penelope]

The Deputy AG does not have the power to fire the FBI Director.

That's why he didn't. There was a memo in which the Deputy AG recommended he be fired.

Of course there was.

But which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Who gives s shit? Trump gave Coney top to hang himself and it didn't take long. Draining the swamp.

And filling it back up with his family, friends and Goldman Sacks. Last I checked Pence , Sessions and a few others are part of the swamp. Its now a huge alligator swamp fest like never seen before in the history of the US.

 

[Political Junky]

Shades of Nixon going on here.

 

[JoeB131]

Trump should be sending Comey flowers, given he took out Hillary for him with his dirty tricks.

 

[Darkwind]

The Deputy AG does not have the power to fire the FBI Director.

That's why he didn't. There was a memo in which the Deputy AG recommended he be fired.

Of course there was.

But which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Somehow, I doubt you would ask that same question of a Democrat President.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

LOL The senile old orange clown was afraid of what Comey would do. He had a habit of doing his own thing, irregardless of political consequences.

Wrong. Trump acted on the advice of trusted people, as it should be.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3711116/White-House-Fires-James-Comey.pdf Read and weep.

Or, Trump decided to fire Comey, and then asked his Deputy AG to give him cover for it.

We'll never know.

Or maybe we will. Looks like I was right.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-trumps-anger-and-impatience-prompted-him-to-fire-the-fbi-director/2017/05/10/d9642334-359c-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?utm_term=.e34a5b0f1fdc

 

[Old Rocks]

LOL The senile old orange clown was afraid of what Comey would do. He had a habit of doing his own thing, irregardless of political consequences.

Wrong. Trump acted on the advice of trusted people, as it should be.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3711116/White-House-Fires-James-Comey.pdf Read and weep.

The senile old fart acted out of fear as to what Comey would find in his investigations of the Russian connections within the clown's team.

 

[Old Rocks]

Dan Heyman, a reporter was arrested for asking the Health Secretary too many questions about Obamacare. He's out on 500 dollars bail.

Isn't this crazy. Now we are treating reporters like they live in third world countries. The whole entire Trump admin must go.

Well, the senile old orange clown has many times stated his admiration for Putin. I suppose though he really does not like to arrest reporters, he would far rather have them killed as Putin does.

 

[EverCurious]

Whatever ya'll need to invent to make yourselves feel better. Just don't blame us when this all turns against ya. You've already shown the entire world that the left wing is flooded with hypocrites, thus confirming their long held suspicions.

Checkmate.

 

[JoeB131]

Whatever ya'll need to invent to make yourselves feel better. Just don't blame us when this all turns against ya. You've already shown the entire world that the left wing is flooded with hypocrites, thus confirming their long held suspicions.

Checkmate.

Buddy, you Trump Davidians need to stop drinking the Koolaid.

 

[EverCurious]

Whatever ya'll need to invent to make yourselves feel better. Just don't blame us when this all turns against ya. You've already shown the entire world that the left wing is flooded with hypocrites, thus confirming their long held suspicions.

Checkmate.

Buddy, you Trump Davidians need to stop drinking the Koolaid.

mmm I'm afraid the booze is on the other side in this case...

 

[Faun]

This is how it actually happened...but don't let the truth get in your way left wingers...

Administration: Comey fired because of handling of Clinton email investigation

The reason the Trump administration is giving for the firing of James Comey is that the newly confirmed Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein recommended it. Upon taking office, Rosenstein reviewed the matter of Comey’s fitness and concluded that he needed to go.

Rosenstein states his reasoning for this conclusion in a memo to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. You can read the memo here, along with Sessions’ letter to President Trump and Trump’s letter of discharge to Comey.

Rosenstein says Comey needed to go because he mishandled the email investigation of Hillary Clinton and then continued to defend his conduct, most notably in recent congressional testimony. Rosenstein says Comey was wrong to “usurp” the Attorney General’s authority and announce that Clinton wouldn’t be prosecuted and wrong to hold a press conference in which he released derogatory information about Clinton.

-----------

Rosenstein is able to cite past high ranking Justice Department officials Attorney Generals from both parties who strongly share his view that what Comey did was wrong. I have heard partisan Republicans who have worked in the Justice Department take the same position. (It happens that I agree with Comey. In the context of a presidential election and all of the interest in the Clinton email scandal, it would have been wrong for Comey not to state the reasons why he recommended no indictment and wrong not to have laid out the facts for the American people).

So there is no reason to doubt that Rosenstein was appalled by Comey’s conduct and his recent defense of that conduct before Congress. There is also no reason to doubt that he genuinely thinks Comey needed to go as a result of his behavior and the controversy it has generated.

And Rosenstein lied. Comey didn't usurp the Attoney General. He couldn't, he had no authority over her. And certainly, as Deputy Attorney General himself, he's well aware of that.

 

[Faun]

LOL The senile old orange clown was afraid of what Comey would do. He had a habit of doing his own thing, irregardless of political consequences.

Wrong. Trump acted on the advice of trusted people, as it should be.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3711116/White-House-Fires-James-Comey.pdf Read and weep.

Or, Trump decided to fire Comey, and then asked his Deputy AG to give him cover for it.

We'll never know.

Not necessarily. We might find out some day...

Deputy AG was on the verge of resigning after WH pinned Comey firing on him

 

[hadit]

This is how it actually happened...but don't let the truth get in your way left wingers...

Administration: Comey fired because of handling of Clinton email investigation

The reason the Trump administration is giving for the firing of James Comey is that the newly confirmed Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein recommended it. Upon taking office, Rosenstein reviewed the matter of Comey’s fitness and concluded that he needed to go.

Rosenstein states his reasoning for this conclusion in a memo to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. You can read the memo here, along with Sessions’ letter to President Trump and Trump’s letter of discharge to Comey.

Rosenstein says Comey needed to go because he mishandled the email investigation of Hillary Clinton and then continued to defend his conduct, most notably in recent congressional testimony. Rosenstein says Comey was wrong to “usurp” the Attorney General’s authority and announce that Clinton wouldn’t be prosecuted and wrong to hold a press conference in which he released derogatory information about Clinton.

-----------

Rosenstein is able to cite past high ranking Justice Department officials Attorney Generals from both parties who strongly share his view that what Comey did was wrong. I have heard partisan Republicans who have worked in the Justice Department take the same position. (It happens that I agree with Comey. In the context of a presidential election and all of the interest in the Clinton email scandal, it would have been wrong for Comey not to state the reasons why he recommended no indictment and wrong not to have laid out the facts for the American people).

So there is no reason to doubt that Rosenstein was appalled by Comey’s conduct and his recent defense of that conduct before Congress. There is also no reason to doubt that he genuinely thinks Comey needed to go as a result of his behavior and the controversy it has generated.

So, IOW, Trump gave the partisan democrats exactly what they were screaming they wanted, Comey gone because he mishandled Hillary's case. Now they're ticked because they got it.

Just goes to show that you never, ever, believe a partisan democrat's reasons for being mad. They're just going to be mad because they're partisan democrats.

 

[EverCurious]

LOL The senile old orange clown was afraid of what Comey would do. He had a habit of doing his own thing, irregardless of political consequences.

Wrong. Trump acted on the advice of trusted people, as it should be.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3711116/White-House-Fires-James-Comey.pdf Read and weep.

Or, Trump decided to fire Comey, and then asked his Deputy AG to give him cover for it.

We'll never know.

Not necessarily. We might find out some day...

Deputy AG was on the verge of resigning after WH pinned Comey firing on him

That's an /astounding lie/ and absolute proof of your medias fake news and fucking lies to you poor sheep. Rosenstein said this in his memorandum to Sessions:

Although the President has the power to remove an FBI director, the decision should not be taken lightly. I agree with the nearly unanimous opinions of former Department officials. The way the Director handled the conclusion of the email investigation was wrong. As a result, the FBI is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust until it has a Director who understand the gravity of the mistakes and pledges never to repeat them. Having refused to admit his errors, the Director cannot be expected to implement the necessary corrective actions.

- James Comey fired (last paragraph on the last page)

That or Rosenstein is apparently a fruit loop and needs to be canned...

 

[Faun]

LOL The senile old orange clown was afraid of what Comey would do. He had a habit of doing his own thing, irregardless of political consequences.

Wrong. Trump acted on the advice of trusted people, as it should be.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3711116/White-House-Fires-James-Comey.pdf Read and weep.

Or, Trump decided to fire Comey, and then asked his Deputy AG to give him cover for it.

We'll never know.

Not necessarily. We might find out some day...

Deputy AG was on the verge of resigning after WH pinned Comey firing on him

That's an /astounding lie/ and absolute proof of your medias fake news and fucking lies to you poor sheep. Rosenstein said this in his memorandum to Sessions:

Although the President has the power to remove an FBI director, the decision should not be taken lightly. I agree with the nearly unanimous opinions of former Department officials. The way the Director handled the conclusion of the email investigation was wrong. As a result, the FBI is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust until it has a Director who understand the gravity of the mistakes and pledges never to repeat them. Having refused to admit his errors, the Director cannot be expected to implement the necessary corrective actions.

- James Comey fired (last paragraph on the last page)

That or Rosenstein is apparently a fruit loop and needs to be canned...

Bitch about it to Rosenstein. He's the one who is apparently pissed he's being fingered as the scapegoat of Trump's decision to fire Comey.

 

[bodecea]

LOL The senile old orange clown was afraid of what Comey would do. He had a habit of doing his own thing, irregardless of political consequences.

Wrong. Trump acted on the advice of trusted people, as it should be.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3711116/White-House-Fires-James-Comey.pdf Read and weep.

Or, Trump decided to fire Comey, and then asked his Deputy AG to give him cover for it.

We'll never know.

Apparently Rosenstein is not happy at being used as the fall guy.

 

[bodecea]

The Deputy AG does not have the power to fire the FBI Director.

That's why he didn't. There was a memo in which the Deputy AG recommended he be fired.

Of course there was.

But which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Who gives s shit? Trump gave Coney top to hang himself and it didn't take long. Draining the swamp.

"who gives s shit".....apparently lots of people....this is getting very interesting.