Posted on 05/10/2017 9:26:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The New York Times reported, “Senior White House and Justice Department officials had been working on building a case against Mr. Comey since at least last week, according to administration officials. Mr. Sessions had been charged with coming up with reasons to fire him, officials said.”
If this is true — that Sessions was charged by President Trump (no one else would have the authority) to figure out reasons to fire Comey — then the question hanging over the presidency is: What was the real reason?
If the reason was not that Trump, after all that talk about “locking up” Hillary Clinton and praise last October for Comey’s letter reintroducing the Clinton email investigation into the campaign, suddenly realized Comey had behaved improperly under Justice Department rules, then the rationale is a lie. The letters from Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein are therefore part of a pretext for firing the FBI director engaged in an investigation of the president and his campaign’s conduct.
Former ambassador and White House ethics lawyer Norman Eisen explains, “The reasons given by the president and White House for the firing are clearly pretextual.” Eisen points out that the reasons stated in the letters for firing Comey “are contrary to the president’s and Attorney General Sessions own prior statements, and . . . the firing was contemporaneous with the revelation of the existence of a grand jury and of subpoenas.” He adds, “Clearly, the president is attempting to hamper an investigation that affects him, and those who were and are around him–and brazenly lie about it.”
In other words, IF Sessions and Rosenstein cooked up a false reason to get rid of Comey because the president was displeased with Comey’s investigation, this is nothing less than a baldfaced attempt to interfere
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i totally remember WaPo saying if BJ Clinton met with Lynch regarding the investigation into Clinton, she must go.....
Fake news from liberal idiots.
You now what a Jenny is.....it's a female donkey. Fits perfectly.
Who cares what this partisan rag has to say about President Trump? Him going to the bathroom is a scandal to them.
Over Russia what?
There’s nothing there. Never was.
If Obama gave away billions in cash and gold bullion to the Iranians, he must be charged with Treason.
lol
This calls for more taunting.
If the washington compost doesn’t stop lying, printing false news and generally being dishonest, it must “go”...out of business.
How’s your circulation WAPO ?
THERE IS NO TRUMP/RUSSIA CONNECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU HAVE TO BE TOLD THAT???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
In the meeting with Comey, and the meeting day after yesterday it was stated that....take your FAKE NEWS and go somewhere else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
” working on building a case against Mr. Comey since at least last week,”
THIS is why Journalists must go. See how they play with language ?
The NY Slimes can go piss up a stump.
I heard that expression used the last time I was up in Maine, and it’s pretty applicable in this instance.
Here is what I have been posting in other threads:
I would argue that those of us who do not want to see the Trump momentum derailed adopt the most pragmatic response to both the predictable hand-wringing of anti-Trump Republicans & the crocodile tears of the forked tongue Democrats like Chuck Schumer, over the firing of Director Comey.
The distracting hoopla, being orchestrated in major part by Trump haters in the mass media, is absolutely inconsistent with very crucial efforts to defang the North Korean Government, before something happens that could lead to literally millions of deaths, both in South Korea & Japan, as well as--God Help us!--from an attack on the American Grid.
What is significant in this juxtaposition of the hoopla over the Comey firing & the Korean situation is this. Donald Trump in one month has accomplished infinitely more in addressing the North Korean threat, than his three predecessors in 24 years! Please let that soak in. Consider the level of the Chinese involvement on our side as the evidence.
What variety of idiot or self-promoter wants to undermine Donald Trump's influence overseas, at this moment in history, by stirring up a fire-storm over the firing of an office-holder, whose conflicting actions have been widely criticized, in recent months, on both sides of the political aisle? Let us not play the media game. Let us focus on what this half-cocked firestorm is undermining, and set these disgusting opportunists, with a highly destructive agenda, back on their heels.
William Flax
hahaha
I believe that Comey’s removal has to do with his foot dragging on the investigation of Bernie Sanders’ wife.
It’s not even fake news. It’s a blog post.
And if he didn’t, he stays?
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