Real reason Trump fired Comey
by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 10:10 AM ET, Fri May 19, 2017
On Thursday .. Trump reversed himself, again ...
"Director Comey was very unpopular with most people," said Trump. "I actually thought when I made that decision -- and I also got a very, very strong recommendation, as you know, from the Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein."
A week before .. Trump .. said .. "I was going to fire Comey -- my decision. There is no good time to do it, by the way. I was going to fire regardless of recommendation" ...
... that, of course, ran directly counter to the argument Vice President Mike Pence, White House press secretary Sean Spicer and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway were making last week: That Trump acted after receiving the Rosenstein memo laying out the case for why Comey should be let go.
.. then .. in a closed briefing for Senators ... Rosenstein said he knew Trump was firing Comey even before he wrote the memo.
What we are witnessing is a rare political feat: The flip, flop, re-flip and .. re-flop ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/politics/trump-comey-fired/index.html
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