Trump Thread

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 05-10-2017, 02:41

Comparing it Archibald Cox is silly. Cox was a special prosecutor investigating administration corruption having been specifically appointed by the Justice department to do so and was fired when he persisted in requesting tapes of conversations in the White House which may very well have been valid evidence in that investigation. It felt, at the time, as though the President were firing the prosecutor in his own trial because the chap was prosecuting too well. Cost Nixon a lot of political "points" among his own party at the time.

Comey moved into the political game and ended up in a situation where anything he was saying was evaluated politically first. Not good for the FBI.

**Montmorency** · 05-10-2017, 03:37

Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

Comey moved into the political game and ended up in a situation where anything he was saying was evaluated politically first. Not good for the FBI.

How about the timing? This wasn't untrue in the past half year. Aside from speculation on the Russian investigation, there ought to be some other association that makes it convenient to make this decision now. The administration could also have been planning for Comey's dismissal since at least March, but then it's still the same question. Depoliticizing FBI leadership isn't a good account on its own when firing Comey clearly enflames that issue.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 05-10-2017, 04:12

Originally Posted by Montmorency

How about the timing? This wasn't untrue in the past half year. Aside from speculation on the Russian investigation, there ought to be some other association that makes it convenient to make this decision now. The administration could also have been planning for Comey's dismissal since at least March, but then it's still the same question. Depoliticizing FBI leadership isn't a good account on its own when firing Comey clearly enflames that issue.

Any issue would inflame. If no issue, then the flames would be fanned on the "do nothing don" theme. The major media loathe him, the political left loathes him and their rank and file truly believe him to be dangerously unstable. Plenty of main stream establishment GOP think little better of him than the Dems. The criticism will end when he leaves office.

**Montmorency** · 05-10-2017, 04:52

So again we're left to ask, why this change, and now? One scenario is that removing Comey is one step in AG Sessions reshuffling the Justice Department and federal law enforcement to be more in line with his ideology and policy prescriptions. Another is that the shock factor is part of an intended misdirection by the administration to diffuse criticism of unpopular policies in the making. Focusing on Comey seems to lead us into the trap of assuming the administration is (still) erraticly feckless and has only got around to replacing Comey as an afterthought, after all this time, and with no special consideration.