President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

Post by ethanhunt_ » Tue, May 09, 2017, 11:14 PM UTC

stevenwoo wrote: post #39

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.

The one professional prognosticator who came closest to predicting a Trump win at 33% agrees with the letter playing an outsize role - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probab...

Post by cthulha » Tue, May 09, 2017, 11:15 PM UTC

aaron-lebo wrote: post #153

res0nat0r wrote: post #143

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And I'm guessing he's going to freely get away with much more than anything Nixon did. Thanks to the GOP who doesn't care about any abuses coming out of the White House because they want to get tax cuts for their millionaire friends they are allowing the integrity of our systems to erode.

At some point you simply make too many enemies. Dems already hate him and this removal continues his conflict with the traditional GOP. He's either gonna cross the wrong person or be so unpopular that he's gone in a few more years and nobody will care.

Post by losvedir » Tue, May 09, 2017, 11:16 PM UTC

mwfunk wrote: post #131

self-diversity wrote: post #67

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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.

Your argument would be a lot more plausible had Trump not done absolutely everything in his power to look guilty as hell on a daily basis. This whole thing could've been shut down months ago with the barest modicum of transparency, integrity, leadership, and honesty from the administration. Trump could have cleared this up in an instant if he had made even a token effort to behave like a responsible, competent, sane…

Post by Tloewald » Tue, May 09, 2017, 11:17 PM UTC

awj wrote: post #137

liquidise wrote: post #92

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The implication of this comment only holds if the replacement FBI Director drops the investigation. The FBI Director themselves are not conducting the investigation, but have instructed the investigation to be conducted. It stands that we should expect the investigation to continue in Comey's absence. Should it cease, this comment would gain merit. The reasons cited for the dismissal appear valid on their face: the h…

> The implication of this comment only holds if the replacement FBI Director drops the investigation. How can you possibly trust the authenticity of an investigation headed up by someone hand chosen by the person being investigated, who knows the person they pick will immediately be in charge of the investigation? If Trump is truly innocent, this is literally the worst thing he could have ever done for himself. This…

Post by Sargos » Tue, May 09, 2017, 11:17 PM UTC

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Don't count on it. Trump will likely put someone very right wing into the position and the attack on encryption will intensify.

So the right wing wants to reduce encryption? And the left doesn't? Republican Senator Rand Paul has been at the forefront of fighting for privacy protections. Chuck Schumer sure hasn't.