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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,704 posts)
Tue May 9, 2017, 10:12 PM May 2017

The Nightmare Scenario: Trump Fires Comey, the One Man Who Would Stand Up to Him

The firing of James Comey as FBI director is a stunning event. It is a profoundly dangerous thing—a move that puts the Trump-Russia investigation in immediate jeopardy and removes from the investigative hierarchy the one senior official whom President Trump did not appoint and one who is known to stand up to power. One of the biggest dangers of Comey’s firing is that Trump might actually get away with it, ironically, because of Comey’s unpopularity among Democrats and on the political left.

We warned about this danger immediately after the election.

On November 10, we wrote that that Trump’s firing of Comey would be a “a clear bellwether to both the national security and civil libertarian communities that things are going terribly wrong.” At the time we wrote those words, Comey was deeply unpopular with both the Left, which blamed Hillary Clinton’s defeat on his eleventh hour letter to Congress, and the Right, which criticized his decision to recommend that Clinton not be charged over her handling of government emails. Whatever the merit of Comey’s actions during the campaign, the fact that he managed to anger both sides of the political spectrum demonstrated his storied political independence. And that political independence, we argued, would serve as a critical check against any efforts on the part of President Trump to trample the rule of law.

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The question before us now is whether Trump will get away with it. There is no question that the President has the legal authority to remove the FBI director. But there’s also no question that removing the FBI Director in the midst of a high-stakes investigation of Russian influence in the inner circle of the President’s campaign and White House is a horrifying breach of every expectation we have of the relationship between the White House and federal law enforcement.

https://lawfareblog.com/nightmare-scenario-trump-fires-comey-one-man-who-would-stand-him

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The Nightmare Scenario: Trump Fires Comey, the One Man Who Would Stand Up to Him (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 OP
The question is rhetorical J_William_Ryan May 2017 #1

J_William_Ryan

(1,736 posts)
1. The question is rhetorical
Tue May 9, 2017, 10:25 PM
May 2017

of course Trump will get away with it; the blind, partisan right will protect and defend Trump regardless the facts and evidence.

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