That does not make him top cop. That does make him an “investigator”. Unless you can show him giving stuff from the “favor” to the FBI you’re just excuse mongering.
“...you’re just excuse mongering.”
The President isn’t top cop in the sense that he can arrest anyone, but he is the boss of the federal officers who can. While Congress (and now apparently Judges) writes the laws, it is the Executive Branch that enforces them—and the President is the chief of the Executive Branch.
Yes, discostu, it does. He’s the boss. The top executive who executes the laws. Everyone else is operating under HIS authority. . . As his deputies, with his authority. His investigatory powers, his arresting ability, his authority to grant or deny waivers, his authority to issue warrants, etc. The Director of the FBI has his job at the pleasure of the President of the USA. . . and any one he designates as superior to him, which included the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, and in one or two instances, the Acting Deputy Attorney General. The President, and the president alone, has the power of executing the laws of the United States of America, no one else unless he grants it to them, sometimes with the approval of the US Senate. No Congressman or Senator or even Supreme Court Justice has that power. To remove that power takes the majority of the House of Representatives and two-thirds of the entire Senate. That’s how powerful the President is. To merely disagree with him, requires a majority vote of both houses, or to over-ride a veto, even more.