Trump says he invented an 84-year-old phrase. But, why?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I beg to differ with Director Comey, that the position of Director of the FBI leaves that person

subject to termination on an at will basis (can be fired for any reason or no reason at all). What qualifies/limits that legal employment doctrine is that one cannot be terminated when it's on the basis of a violation of public policy.

For instance, you can be a secretary for an administrator and you're fired, just because. But you can't be fired because of your race, your national origin, your religion, and/or your sex. (Courts disagree about sexual orientation.)

In this situation, if you're the Director of the FBI, doing your job competently and you're fired because you're doing your job too well, i.e., you're going to provide the basis for possible impeachment at best (humiliation at least) for the President of the United States (and jeopardize his future business deals with Russia and/or repayment of his debt to it), then I would say that's a violation of public policy and the termination was unlawful.