Comey sacked

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    If it were Hoover, there would be tapes. Also, what happened to the days of keeping tapes in the Oval Office?
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    Nixon. Once he got bitten by them, everyone quit doing it.
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    Trump can't simply fire Mueller, it's up to Congress and there has to be a legitimate reason in writing.
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    Well, yeah, I'm just saying.
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    I am sure Ford got rid of that shit on day one! :lol:
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    there is a distinct and specific difference between "Comey made a terrible and costly miscalculation" and "Comey should be fired"

    That said, if Obama had fired Comey over his choices (both of them) in the Clinton matter after the election, it would have at least been a specific "for cause" firing (as opposed to an effort to obstruct justice) and, let's not fool ourselves, Republicans would have been outraged.
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    Trump absolutely can fire Mueller. Trump is head of the executive branch.

    Mueller works for the DOJ as he was appointed by the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein. Mueller was not appointed by Congress.

    Now don't get me wrong it would be a tremendously stupid thing to do and probably be the one thing to guarantee Trump can kiss 2020 goodbye but legally he could fire him.
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    Congress would just bring back the special prosecutor act and then appoint Mueller. They would have to do so and I suspect Mueller was the unnamed source behind today's revelation that Trump is under investigation for obstruction of justice. Trump had been trial ballooning firing Mueller so this makes a huge obvious pitfall for him if he does that plus furthers the obstruction of justice case against him.
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    Because trying to get the FBI director to use a different word in a statement is EXACTLY the same as trying to get him to drop an investigation.

    If Trump got into a car and mowed down a crowd of pedestrians, you people would start shrieking "How come nobody's talking about that time Obama hit a squirrel?"
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    Most wondered why Comey took it upon himself *twice* to blab about things publicly when it wasn't his place or common practice [bold, above]. Comey opening his mouth publicly to blah blah about the investigation is now, apparently, doubly-curious, given the timing.

    Political animal, indeed; hope they get more info about this, seems a curious chronology for such a tall fellow.
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    I did not realize Comey was a fucking giant.
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    Bannon calls the firing of Comey a big mistake.
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    given that it's now crystal clear there was no criminality there, the politics of it are more in Comey's trying so hard in the first statement to say "she was really really bad even if we can't charge her"- like he's pandering to the political views of his fellow Republicans so they don't come after him.
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    60 minutes does a great job with their interviews and the country needs more of their long format indepth interviews on topics. It cuts through the sound bites and really drills down into topics.
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    Um, you might need to edit your post, because as is, it's hilarious and would be a perfect epitaph for the administration.
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    Comey speaks.
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    I thought Bannon was some kind of neo Nazi shill?
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    Even neo-Nazi shills get it right once in a while. Just like how you're occasionally able to get something right.
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    As do you.
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    But at least I'm willing to admit when I'm wrong, and don't spend years defending the indefensible.
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    Yet you do spend years carping about someone else's misdeeds.
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    Because they spend years defending them.
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    What IS it with Americans and the genderfluid use of "Dana" as a first name?! I mean, Ghostbusters put the mental image of Dana in my head as Sigourney Weaver, and then news articles like this come along and they're always old, white wrinkly politicians like Boente or Rohrabacher, ffs.

    Were you TRYING to invent the anti-Viagra?
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