Holy s***.

 

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 9, 2017

 

Statement from the Press Secretary

 

Today, President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office. President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

 

The FBI is one of our Nations most cherished and respected institutions and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement, said President Trump.

 

A search for a new permanent FBI Director will begin immediately.

Nobody is ever going to take you serious when you begin a post, "I listened to Rush while I was in the car today".

The guy has multi million listeners. Some Americans like him.

that second paragraph

 

Remember when Comey was a Republican shill trying to get Trump elected? Yeah that was great.

Hey remember when Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation, and has now gotten Trump to fire the guy leading the Russia investigation?

fired for Clinton EMAILS

 

this is the letter from Sessions recommending he be terminated

 

Edit the letter is from the deputy AG not sessions

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Banana republic stuff. This is really bad

He's totally hiring the black sheriff from Milwaukee

fired for Clinton EMAILS

 

this is the letter from Sessions recommending he be terminated

 

Edit the letter is from the deputy AG not sessions

 

Here is Sessions totally not getting involved

 

Banana republic stuff. This is really bad

Nixon 2.0

 

No crook

No crook

You're the crook

Fired FBI Director Comey was scheduled to testify before Senate Intel on Thursday (h/t @MariannaNBCNews)

He's totally hiring the black sheriff from Milwaukee

 

Or maybe Dog the Bounty Hunter.

I guess the Dems will still push for a fired and pissed off Comey to testify to no avail.

 

Any way you look at this, it smacks of vindictiveness and only gives the Weiner/Huma Hebedin October surprise then non-surprise on page 78D more weight.

 

In the end, it will just polarize the country even more, if that's possible. There's no middle ground anymore.

 

Then Comey's replacement...his confirmation hearings, he's going to be peppered with Trump/Russia questions and any possible ties to his not being an objective actor in terms of steering that investigation to a quiet ending. That's impossible now.

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I loved this tweet

 

Employees fired by Trump: Yates, Bharara, Comey

 

Employees investigating Trump: Yates, Bharara, Comey

Yeah this is extremely f***ed up. Can't imagine the Republicans in the House or Senate will do anything about it, either.

Yeah this is extremely f***ed up. Can't imagine the Republicans in the House or Senate will do anything about it, either.

 

Time to step to the plate

Time to step to the plate

ha.

ha.

 

Didn't say I was optimistic.

Nyt reporting that sessions was "looking for reasons" to fire Trump starting last week.

Anyone looking for a special prosecutor needs to know it's up to the AG to appoint one. So...

I loved this tweet

 

Employees fired by Trump: Yates, Bharara, Comey

 

Employees investigating Trump: Yates, Bharara, Comey

 

Bharara's character (well, loosely based on him) in Billions is finally getting an indictment against his arch-enemy at the end of Season Two, so there's that.

 

It's actually amazing how many t.v. shows are tying into the Trump election right now. Surely, House of Cards. Scandal. The Handmaid's Tale. Homeland. Designated Survivor.

Nyt reporting that sessions was "looking for reasons" to fire Trump starting last week.

 

One wishes it was that easy to fire Trump!

 

Let's hope we get another "Southern gentleman" with a syrupy Southern voice like Richard Shelby or Howell Heflin to make Saturday Night Live impressions more entertaining. They're definitely not coming from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

 

What's that AG from Florida on the Gore/Bush election up to these days? She'd be a prime candidate. Or the current one in Florida who dismissed the investigation into Trump University after a well-time campaign contribution.

My staff and I are reviewing legislation to establish an independent commission on Russia. The second paragraph of this letter is bizarre. https://t.co/wXeDtVIQiP

 

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 9, 2017

 

R-MI. Member of House Oversight Committee.

 

Slow clap.

What's Pat Fitzgerald doing?

In criminal trials there are certain actions defendants can take from which judges will tell juries they can infer guilt. In a political context, this is one of those moments. We are now hearing word from White House officials that the White House is stunned at the backlash at Comey’s firing. Didn’t Democrats think he was doing a bad job? We’re even hearing commentators speculate that maybe this may have been a huge miscalculation. The White House didn’t realize how big a deal this was. In the final analysis I think this will be judged a major miscalculation – just not in the sense they mean. Frankly, no one is that naive. It doesn’t wash.

 

There is only one reasonable conclusion that can be drawn from the decision to fire Comey: that there is grave wrongdoing at the center of the Russia scandal and that it implicates the President. As I write this, I have a difficult time believing that last sentence myself. But sometimes you have to step back from your assumptions and simply look at what the available evidence is telling you. It’s speaking clearly: the only reasonable explanation is that the President has something immense to hide and needs someone in charge of the FBI who he believes is loyal. Like Jeff Sessions. Like Rod Rosenstein.[

 

This is a very dark and perilous moment.

Yup.