WH: ‘It’s Startling That Democrats Aren’t Celebrating’ Comey Firing

Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Sanders was asked about the firing of FBI Director James Comey, President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other topics. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Sanders was asked about the firing of FBI Director James Comey, Pr... Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Sanders was asked about the firing of FBI Director James Comey, President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other topics. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) MORE LESS
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White House deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders on Wednesday expressed surprise that Democrats are not celebrating President Donald Trump’s firing of former FBI Director James Comey, who led the bureau’s investigation into election meddling.

“Frankly, I think it’s startling that Democrats aren’t celebrating this since they’ve been calling for it for so long,” Sanders said at the daily White House press briefing.

She said Comey made “a lot of missteps and mistakes” over the last year.

“Certainly I think that, as you’ve seen from many of the comments from Democrat members, including Sen. Schumer, they didn’t think he should be there,” Sanders said. “They thought he should be gone.”

Trump’s administration appeared wholly unprepared for the massive backlash following Comey’s surprise termination Tuesday night. White House press secretary Sean Spicer shouted a statement to reporters from his office door, which his staff then locked, and later spent several minutes hiding from cameras in shrubbery on the White House grounds before taking further questions.

The White House reportedly believed that Democrats’ previous criticism of Comey would insulate the decision from condemnation, but instead several Republicans joined the fray to question Trump’s decision.

As for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who Sanders cited as a Democratic lawmaker critical of Comey’s “missteps and mistakes,” he had some particularly pointed questions for Trump about Comey’s termination.

“Why now? Why did it happen today?” Schumer said on Tuesday. “Were these investigations getting too close to home for the President?”

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  1. Comey took out the rightful POTUS. We wanted him to return the favor.

  2. Dimwit. This isn’t about Hillary’s e-mails. It’s about the Trump Administration’s collusion with Russian government agents to sway the presidential election in a direction favorable to Russia. That’s why we’re not celebrating Comey’s firing.

  3. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    Perhaps it is due to the fact that day after day our Fake President proves that he is not to be believed or trusted.

  4. Meanwhile Spicer is still hiding in the bushes blowing raspberries.

  5. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    Has she urged everyone to stop dwelling on this ?

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