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President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

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Re: President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

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Post by asdfjlkasdf88 »

buckbova wrote: post #59
cloudwalking wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not true. Rolling back regulations on green house gas emissions, removing regulations on clean water, denying healthcare to millions of people... Those deaths cannot be undone, the aquifers cannot be cleaned, and the carbon can't be removed from the atmosphere.

Let's tone down the hyperbole. Edit: I don't like having a political argument in this forum. I don't want hn to turn into r/politics. I'm not swayed by emotional pleas from celebrities or others crying about a bill they haven't read. Who are these folks dying by the millions? From what I see mortality rates rose since obamacare came about: "We know that the same year Obamacare’s insurance expansion provisions took ef…

You have an ability to raise the dead no one else knows about?

Or technology to scrub co2 from the air?

Re: President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

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Post by stanleydrew »

dekhn wrote: post #21
Matt3o12_ wrote: post #7

Well I would be certainly interested in the circumstances especially considering that I always believed he was pro trump. Some even said he played an important role Trump won the election because he opened an investigation into Clinton's emails right before the election.

that's not what he did. there already was an investigation. What comey announced right before the elections was that they had found more of clinton's emails in another, unrelated case. That invesigation was into Anthony Weiner, who was married to Clinton's advisor Huma Abedin. Weiner was sexting a 15-year-old, Abedin was forwarding some emails to weiner's computer to be printed out. In investigating weiner's computer…

Just in order to keep the record straight, I find it necessary to point out that Comey's specific testimony (last week) on the forwarding of emails was false, and that false testimony may be directly related to his being dismissed today.

https://www.propublica.org/article/comeys-testimony-on-huma-...

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Post by fooey »

Animats wrote: post #61

The FBI director is supposed to have a 10 year term. That went in after J. Edgar Hoover died. Nobody wanted another J. Edgar Hoover FBI Director for Life situation, but having the FBI director be a "pleasure of the President" appointment made it too political. This makes Andrew G. McCabe acting FBI director. He's in the civil service, not a Presidential appointment. He was an FBI agent and worked his way up. From wha…

The looming senate fight to confirm a replacement is going to be absolutely massive.

Re: President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

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Post by dantillberg »

newsat13 wrote: post #29

Can someone clarify if comey is pro trump or not?

I've generally had the impression that Comey is a more traditional conservative; he might prefer Republicans rather than Democrats be in control of the federal government, but he's never shown much love of Trump himself.

Re: President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

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Post by danielvf »

DamnInteresting wrote: post #60
danielvf wrote: post #22

Anyone have a link to the contents of the memo that recommended firing, and contained the reasons for that recommendation?

Allegedly: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_apUYrXgAAihp2.jpg

Thanks! Unfortunately that one leaves out the reasons memo.

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Post by dheelus »

jacquesm wrote: post #66

Someone better than me in English, please explain the meaning of the word 'recuse'?

To remove oneself from involvement in the proceedings. In this case, since AG Sessions was considered to have conflict of interest in the Russian interference matter, he 'recused' himself, i.e., removed himself from the investigations.

Re: President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

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Post by epc »

jacquesm wrote: post #66

Someone better than me in English, please explain the meaning of the word 'recuse'?

In this instance, step away from active involvement in investigations concerning a specific subject to avoid appearance of a conflict of interest. Comey still reported to Sessions as A.G. but would not have had to report updates about the investigations into Trump & Russia.

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Post by dualboot »

self-diversity wrote: post #67
throwaway5752 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The FBI was investigating the president for colluding with a hostile state to influence the election and aid them against the interests of the US. This is the worst thing to happen to the country since Watergate or longer.

Yeah you can tell the Trump-Russia connections are not a quixotic quagmire by how the stories continue to be filled with weasel words and spend 100% of their column inches not presenting any evidence at all.

The problem is the response from the man himself. This could all have been resolved with the release of his financials and being open regarding his business dealings when he made the decision to step into the role of public servant.
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