Good analogy. It was blood in the water.
I think Trump was taken aback and all the weak-kneed sisters around him were telling him you have to get rid of this guy.
The one guy who had promised to go “full Trump” on the bloated intel apparatus in DC was taken out by Comey and the idiots that ran the Russian collusion delusion and their media minions. One of the few who would have been loyal to Trump and he was “gone like that”. They immediately played the same game on Sessions and it was not hard..... he proved immediately that he would take instruction from the permanent bosses within DOJ.
The two entities that did the most damage to Trump until he turned his Presidency over to Fauci were DOJ and the IC and “they” (not Trump) basically got to do their thing and they attacked him non-stop.
Sessions turned out to be a fainting goat, but I had high hopes for Flynn.
I wanted Flynn as the VP, so I was especially po’d when Trump supposedly listened to Pence and fired him. Many wanted Flynn as the VP so I think that may have played into Pence wanting to take him out.
The main argument against Flynn for VP at the time was his pro-abortion stance, which obviously bothered me, but I just thought Trump needed someone who really understood the military working closely with him and that was the only available choice.
Maybe Pence brought some needed rationality to Trump, and Flynn would have been too much together with Trump to win the election, but Trump still should have hung onto him at all costs. Flynn was truly devoted, and basically no one after that was.
The Jan. 5, 2017 WH meeting with Obama, Biden, Denis McDonough and Susan Rice discussing what to do with Flynn and how to take him out laid the groundwork for his firing and the subsequent Intel playbook.