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mcar

(42,270 posts)
Tue May 9, 2017, 08:01 PM May 2017

Pierce: The Great American Ass-Covering

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a54986/james-comey-fired-by-trump/

Holy hell, what a blunder.

The one thing that may save us from a Trumpian dictatorship is that they're so transcendentally bad at it. If you're keeping score at home, there is an ongoing FBI counterintelligence investigation into alleged collusion between the president*'s campaign and the Russian government. Late Tuesday, the president* fired the director of the FBI at the recommendation of the attorney general of the United States, who already has recused himself from the investigation because of his involvement in said campaign. Mother of god, these people are morons...

So we are to believe, especially if we are all morons, that Comey was fired because of the administration's dissatisfaction with the activities that, more than anything else, helped make the administration possible. And I am the Tsar of all the Russias.

Can't anybody play this game? I will take any bet in any amount that we will have a special prosecutor looking into the Russia business by midsummer at the latest. Otherwise, I don't know who will take the job. The entire DOJ—including the FBI—is now hopelessly compromised. And yes, I dread the very thought of who these clowns might appoint—Rudy Giuliani? Chris Christie? Sheriff Clarke? Bo Dietl?—but that seems a secondary concern right now. At present, we're governed by people in a frenzy to cover their own asses. Nobody's hands are on the wheel.
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Pierce: The Great American Ass-Covering (Original Post) mcar May 2017 OP
I wish I shared his optimism about a special prosecutor... regnaD kciN May 2017 #1
I'm not sure either mcar May 2017 #2

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
1. I wish I shared his optimism about a special prosecutor...
Tue May 9, 2017, 08:09 PM
May 2017

...but I think Trump has learned his lessons from Russia and Turkey too well to allow that to happen.

mcar

(42,270 posts)
2. I'm not sure either
Tue May 9, 2017, 08:28 PM
May 2017

But this episode shows how incompetent they are.

The MSM has their claws in this now. They've been salivating for another Watergate for 40 years. It's not going away.

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