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Trump Cans Comey Like A Boss
Townhall.com ^ | March 11, 2017 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 05/11/2017 5:14:46 AM PDT by Kaslin

We always knew Donald Trump was brassy, but until he sent half-stepping ex-FBI Director James Comey packing, we didn’t know that his manparts were made of brass. You gotta be hardcore to step up to that sanctimonious tool, that Kasich-With-A-Badge, and cut him off at the knees in the face of the inevitable monsoon of fake news media panic, girlish Democrat howling, and sputtering Menschian Russianoia.

No hesitation. No apologies. When it became inarguable that this pumped up functionary with delusions of omnipotence had finally passed his sell-by date, Trump pulled the trigger. That’s taking charge. That’s leading from the front. That’s regulating. Damn, it’s nice to once again have a chief executive who’s not a simpering femboy.

The pathetic Democrats were caught so utterly off-guard, and were so completely bought-into their spittle-flicking Comey hate, that their 180 from calling for Comey’s head to calling for his restoration will give them mental whiplash. They’ll be in figurative neck braces just like the one their hero Ted Kennedy wore after he left Mary Jo in the pond.

The morning of the day that Trump canned Comey, the Dems were in high dudgeon over Comey’s “correction” of his Senate testimony regarding how many classified emails Huma sent to her overexposed spouse. It was a lot less than what Comey told Congress…under oath…when everyone was watching. No biggie. He “clarified” it afterwards, so it was all good.

When normals give false testimony under oath, we call it “perjury,” and Comey’s former subordinates frog march them into federal prison. But when Comey does it, it’s merely an oopsie and he gets to shrug as the sad trombone blows.

Democrats have a beef about Comey telling Congress – which promptly leaked it – that he was reopening the Clinton investigation right before the election. But he was reopening it, and he assured Congress he’d let it know if he did, and it was a big deal. Hillary had no right to a free pass on the foreseeable consequences of her decision to flout the law. No toilet server, no hacks, no problem – this was all of her doing and no one should blame Comey for that. Nor was it Comey who kept her out of Michigan, Wisconsin, and the parts of Pennsylvania where people cling to their guns and religion.

But his “Free Pass for Hillary” press conference in July was perhaps the most transparently horrific decision by a Justice Department official since Janet Reno decided that she had to burn down the Branch Davidian compound to save its kids. Here’s the thing about Comey – he was arrogant. He was so arrogant that he took for himself the power to ignore the law because he determined, by himself, that if Hillary was treated like every other non-elite citizen the outcome would somehow be wrong. Voters might vote incorrectly if Hillary was held accountable and Comey, in his surpassing benevolent wisdom, could not allow that.

His press conference did incalculable damage to the American People’s faith in the rule of law. But he’s special, and his most-favored-felon treatment of fellow elite alum Hillary and her cadre of crooks was just professional courtesy.

His dedication to higher truth justified Jimmy lying to our faces. Any normal American, but not Hillary, would have been indicted over those classified emails – those of us who actually held security clearances understand that especially well. And that stuff about no prosecutor being able to prove the case? A first-year lawyer with a hangover could prove her U.S. Code violations to a jury of Kardashians with ADD.

Everything Comey said at that press conference after laying out that devastating indictment of Hillary Clinton was a lie. Everything. But he had his higher purpose. He was not bound by the petty rules that constrain lesser men.

It was never Comey’s job to determine whether to prosecute her. He was a cop – well, cops actually do cop things instead of ride a desk and stare lovingly into the mirror, but his role was law enforcement nonetheless. Comey was not a prosecutor. Yet he usurped that job because he felt that only St. Jim had the moral fortitude to see beyond and above our mere mortal laws. It was his obligation – nay, his duty – to ignore the statutes enacted by the People through the Congress and to do what he determined was right, not what the law required, not what his oath compelled, but what he felt good about.

Comey’s actions were not the actions of an officer of a democratic republic, but of an aspiring benign dictator who feels himself unbound by mere mortal laws. And history is replete with the heaps of bodies that lie at the far end of that slippery slope. Such men never stay benign long.

That pompous hack can never be too gone from office. He probably thought he was going to skate too, right up until the minute security showed up with an empty banker’s box to confiscate his access card and walk him out to the sidewalk.

The Democrats are fuming, enraged that President Trump dared to fearlessly exercise the power of every other president and dismiss those who serve at his pleasure whom he no longer finds pleasing. But he rejects the idea that because liberals disapprove, his every action is somehow illegitimate. Trump refuses to accept the narrative that he is The President*, America’s Asterisk-in-Chief.

Not a thing.

Savor this moment. You just lived through history. January 20, 2017, is when Donald Trump took the oath of office. May 9, 2017, is when he became President.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: jamescomey; presidenttrump; schlichter; yourefired
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To: bar sin·is·ter

Lol!


21 posted on 05/11/2017 5:59:36 AM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: Kaslin

Outstanding!!!


22 posted on 05/11/2017 5:59:37 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Vision Thing

I hope DJT pressures McCabe to leave on his own rather than making Comey’s replacement fire him.


23 posted on 05/11/2017 6:01:55 AM PDT by txhurl (BOOM BOOM! - what is it - :)
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To: Kaslin

The media just hates it when there is no foreplay.

Going on an on about what’s going to happen is the way things are supposed to be done.


24 posted on 05/11/2017 6:01:59 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: bar sin·is·ter

SERIES...!


25 posted on 05/11/2017 6:03:01 AM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to technical failures)
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To: yldstrk

Real men admire real women also.


26 posted on 05/11/2017 6:03:55 AM PDT by sport
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To: relictele

Oh, I can share the schadenfreude that Comey very well may have deserved how it played out. We don’t know what all happened between the two, but if Comey was enough of a twit then maybe Trump indeed felt like dissing him by publicizing the firing before the letter was received.

Professionally, however, it should be done in person. Even if he “deserved it”.


27 posted on 05/11/2017 6:04:06 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: Ahithophel

28 posted on 05/11/2017 6:06:48 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: txhurl

Reminds me of a Stalin move depicted in an HBO biography of him. An underling disappointed Stalin. So Stalin goes to the underling. Stalin puts a gun on the underling’s desk. Stalin leaves the underling and closes the office door behind him. As Stalin walks away, a gunshot can be heard. Stalin continues to walk away.


29 posted on 05/11/2017 6:10:43 AM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: metmom
The World has not seen a man in a position of authority in the United States of America in a coon's age. All they have seen are sissies, cuckolds, trans whatevers, and pansies masquerading as men. In fact, a majority of the voting public just put a muslim representative of all the above described in the White House for eight years. That is why they are shocked to see a man acting like a man. Many of them have never seen a real man in their lifetime./p>
30 posted on 05/11/2017 6:18:21 AM PDT by sport
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To: ctdonath2

I suspect you never lied to your bosses. Or were never in collusion with the competition. I’m guessing you never committed fraud and acted out in such a way that your friends and your enemies all wanted you gone.

Comey did all this and worse.

“Respect”? You think Comey warranted respect?


31 posted on 05/11/2017 6:19:55 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Kaslin

No only did President Trump fire that weasel Comey in the manner he deserved, but the next day was icing on the cake.

Trump Trolls His Critics.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3551914/posts


32 posted on 05/11/2017 6:23:38 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Kaslin

Schlichter was on fire. Good piece.


33 posted on 05/11/2017 6:26:45 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: sport

Dittoes.

My son is 30 years old. He has no memory of Ronald Reagan.

Isn’t it amazing the US has managed to keep it together with such abysmal leadership of all these years?


34 posted on 05/11/2017 6:27:40 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: ClearCase_guy

You are soooo correct there ClearCase,
The day after the election Mr. Trump acted presidential as opposed to say his predecessor who it seemed sulked and hid for the next weeks.


35 posted on 05/11/2017 6:28:39 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“The pathetic Democrats were caught so utterly off-guard,”.......

Off guard? the evidence was right out on the table for all to see, they should have expected the firing long ago and should also be forewarned that more firings are needed. It is so far past time to drain the swamp, any action taken by Trump will be seen as a “surprise”. They had better all wake up, there’s a new sheriff in town.


36 posted on 05/11/2017 6:29:00 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: yldstrk

AMEN!!!!


37 posted on 05/11/2017 6:32:15 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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Comey is such a useless moron!

Never got to the bottom of the IRS Scandal!!! WTF is the FBI for?

Let Hillary off the hook!

38 posted on 05/11/2017 6:37:36 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: Responsibility2nd

Comey also got Trump elected.
He didn’t have to lay out the case against Hillary (before clearly giving in to pressure).
He didn’t have to promise updates to Congress, nor follow thru when new info arose.
Those may very well have pushed just enough people over just enough lines to make the difference.

I’ve worked with people who were jerks, but nonetheless made notable contributions.


39 posted on 05/11/2017 6:37:40 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: ctdonath2
Comey also got Trump elected.

Patently false. A lie actually. Why are you defending Comey?

40 posted on 05/11/2017 6:41:43 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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