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

President Donald Trump announces the approval of a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, clearing the way for the $8 billion project, Friday, March 24, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
FILE - In a Friday, March 24, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump announces the approval of a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. President Trump on Sunda... FILE - In a Friday, March 24, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump announces the approval of a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. President Trump on Sunday, March 26, attacked conservative lawmakers for the failure of the Republican bill to replace Barack Obama's health care law as his aides pledged to court moderate Democrats on upcoming initiatives from health care to tax cuts. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) MORE LESS
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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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  1. Woodward and Bernstein’s Deep Throat was an unhappy FBI agent. We can only hope.

  2. If I remember right it was a guy who was denied the position of Director by Nixon.

  3. The problem from our side is that Comey’s false testimony to Congress – grossly false – is reason enough to fire him.

    So while we can piss and moan til Hell won’t have it – and we all know perfectly well that false testimony wasn’t the real reason – It doesn’t matter.

    Comey gave them the perfect rational. And now just imagine who they are going to put up.

  4. Avatar for daled daled says:

    Sherrif Joe Arpaio would seem to fit the Trump mold…

  5. How soon before we find out Giuliani was involved?

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