Posted on 05/11/2017 10:29:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump on Thursday called James Comey, the FBI chief he fired, a "showboat" and "grandstander" and said in a NBC-TV interview he would have dismissed him even if officials at the Justice Department had not recommended it.
"He's a showboat. He's a grandstander. The FBI has been in turmoil," Trump told NBC.
"I was going to fire Comey. My decision," Trump said. "I was going to fire regardless of recommendation."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
The interesting thing about Trump is that he doesn’t like people around him to showboat.
Carolyn Kepcher is a perfect example. He knocked down Steve Bannon in public.
There are all kinds of reasons to fire Comey.
But showboating is another reason in the list.
The deed is done. Now shut up (please).
“I was going to fire regardless of recommendation.”
Top Kek!!
He just gave Comey License to attack him. DUMB Donald...
Commey’s lucky he didn’t get the axe sooner. One doesn’t need a law degree to understand the language of the statues that Clinton and her cronies violated. For him to conclude there was “no intent” or that “no reasonable prosecutor” blah blah blah or rationalizing Loretta’s conflict just made his lawlessness worse.
He was a disgrace, both personally and to his profession. A political hack, that was obvious. And I’ve seen numerous observations that he was getting wackier the longer he held the office. He needed to go, big time.
Your analysis, as always, is spot off.
He should have left well enough alone. The Press will have a field day with this, and use it to pit Trump supporters against Trump using this..
Based on what, exactly?
Simple, they will ask a Congressman, “The President called Comey a Show boater do you agree?”, and of course they will not, leading to more “Republicans attack the President” stories. When you win you don’t rub it in and gloat, it looks childish.
You know nothing
How does the story evolving and changing help?
Various statements given so far:
1)Handling of the Clinton email stuff
2)Failure to prevent leaks
3)Based on a report crafted by Rosenstein
4)Because he was doing a bad job
5)“This has nothing to do with the campaign from six months ago. This has everything to do with the performance of the FBI director SINCE THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE”
6)“No, the president had lost … confidence in Director Comey and frankly he’d been considering letting Director Comey go SINCE THE DAY HE WAS ELECTED”
At best this has been handled clumsily.
We have statements made by administration officials with authority to speak on the matter contradicting each other.
Well I knew he would. I gave Comey until the middle of Summer being the latest after Trump went down his priority list.
Good post.
Comey is an amazing showboat, the most self-enamored senior LEO I’ve ever seen...I always got the impression he was auditioning for a reality tv show, something along the lines of him being the next Kim Kardashian being Judge Judy...
Plus, he was and IS a hotdog, a showboat, a grandstander; a legend in his own mind!
Yeah, if only Trump hadn’t done this, the press would not be attacking attacking him. /sarcasm
On the contrary, Trump needs to explain over and over why Comey needed to be fired.
And they are all true, they don't conflict. The more statements the better. The problem is you are listening to the media which portrays that as a bad thing. But as with everything else, they are lying and clueless.
Chris Christie showboated with by appearing on the Today Show shortly after being put in charge of the transition team. Removed, fired, later that afternoon.
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