Trump Fires FBI Director Comey

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The Feebs' investigations must have been getting too close to Trump's inner circle. Time to appoint a stonewalling crony.
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The Wall St. Journal editorial page (no friend of Trump) has been illustrating how Comey is incompetent since mid-way through the Obama administration. 

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Honestly, if they'd canned Comey in the first 10-15 days of the administration, no one would've batted an eye as it would've just been another Obama appointee being shown the door.
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bayonetbrant

Nice to see Fox News entering the world of Alternative Facts

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Quote from: bbmike on May 10, 2017, 07:10:16 AM
^Al Franken.  ::)

So he's wrong?
Sessions said he'd recuse himself from any Russia investigations.
Sessions then supported the firing of the guy in charge of the Russia investigations.
That's supposed to be "recusing" himself?
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mirth

Sessions didn't fire him.
Quote from: bbmike on May 10, 2017, 07:10:16 AM
^Al Franken.  ::)

Yeah. No offense to anyone from Minnesota, but WTF?
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mirth

Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 10, 2017, 07:45:03 AM
Quote from: bbmike on May 10, 2017, 07:10:16 AM
^Al Franken.  ::)

So he's wrong?
Sessions said he'd recuse himself from any Russia investigations.
Sessions then supported the firing of the guy in charge of the Russia investigations.
That's supposed to be "recusing" himself?

Sessions didn't fire Comey.

Is Sessions otherwise involved in the Russia investigation?

And remember a few months back when the Dems were calling for Comey's head over the Hilly email investigation?

And Al Franken  ::)
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bayonetbrant

Quote from: mirth on May 10, 2017, 07:57:57 AMSessions didn't fire Comey.
No, but he did support the firing instead of just walking away and recusing himself

Quote from: mirth on May 10, 2017, 07:57:57 AMIs Sessions otherwise involved in the Russia investigation?
Supporting the firing of the guy conducting the investigation is (to me) enough

Quote from: mirth on May 10, 2017, 07:57:57 AMAnd remember a few months back when the Dems were calling for Comey's head over the Hilly email investigation?
And they should've gotten it then.  There shouldn't've been any controversy if Trump had fired Comey on 1 Feb, and was just cleaning house of Obama appointees.  No one would've batted an eye.

Quote from: mirth on May 10, 2017, 07:57:57 AMAnd Al Franken  ::)
So you don't like his politics.  Fine.  He says some things I'm not fond of, too.
But are you going to try to argue that he is ill-informed or somehow not up to the task of being a Senator?  Really?  Yes, he was a comedy writer, but was also a very sharp political commentator and author for 25+ years before he was elected.  Is there are reason he can't be good at more than one thing?
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mirth

Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 10, 2017, 08:44:21 AM
So you don't like his politics.  Fine.  He says some things I'm not fond of, too.
But are you going to try to argue that he is ill-informed or somehow not up to the task of being a Senator?  Really?  Yes, he was a comedy writer, but was also a very sharp political commentator and author for 25+ years before he was elected.  Is there are reason he can't be good at more than one thing?

I'd like to see him be good at one thing. Other than Stuart Smalley, I wasn't overly impressed by his comedic ability.
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smittyohio

America has officially become a banana republic...

mirth

Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 10, 2017, 08:44:21 AM
Quote from: mirth on May 10, 2017, 07:57:57 AMSessions didn't fire Comey.
No, but he did support the firing instead of just walking away and recusing himself

Quote from: mirth on May 10, 2017, 07:57:57 AMIs Sessions otherwise involved in the Russia investigation?
Supporting the firing of the guy conducting the investigation is (to me) enough

So Comey was single handedly conducting the Russia investigation? Firing him means that investigation by the Bureau completely stops? So this whole thing is just going away because Jeff Sessions supported firing Comey?
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