Reports: Trump Admin Has Been Seeking A Reason To Fire Comey Since Last Week

[DonViejo]

By ESME CRIBB Published MAY 9, 2017 7:23 PM

President Donald Trump’s administration spent at least a week before former FBI Director James Comey’s abrupt termination on Tuesday looking for a reason to fire him, according to reports by the New York Times and CNN.

The New York Times reported, citing unnamed administration officials, that senior officials at the White House and Department of Justice were at work “building a case” against Comey for at least the last week. Those officials also told the New York Times that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was ordered to find a reason to terminate Comey.

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny said it was “a very closely kept secret” at the White House.

“I am told only a handful of top advisers knew this was coming,” he said. “But I am told just moments ago that the President himself has been considering this, been thinking about this for at least a week.”

Zeleny said Trump “did not necessarily have the rationale” to fire Comey when he first began discussing the possibility “but then asked the attorney general and the deputy attorney general to look for that rationale and that explanation.”

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/reports-trump-admin-looking-for-reason-to-fire-comey

[MichMan]

1. Should Comey have been fired or not?

Really confused for the last several months about Comey.

First he is hated for investigating Hillary, then liked for not recommending any charges, then castigated for his comments about not charging her, then despised for incorrectly saying the email investigation was being reopened. People saying he was a republican hack and should never have been appointed by President Obama.

I read numerous threads and posts here last year demanding that he be fired by Obama or Hillary (after she won the election). When Hillary lost, there were countless posts here blaming Comey for making up the October surprise and blaming him for the loss. Also many posts demanding Comey should be charged criminally for violating the Hatch Act.

[Blue_Roses]

2. I figured this

and I'm sure it didn't come as a surprise to Comey either. Comey had to know because he said last week that two prosecutors were on the Trump/Russia case. I thought that was odd that Comey admitted that in the open forum, but he knew it would egg Trump on. And it did.
Yeah, Comey knew what he was doing.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4668319/comey-talking-two-sets-prosecutors-trump-russia-case