If Trump fired Comey over Russia, he must gohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/05/10/if-trump-fired-comey-over-russia-he-must-go/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.f558f89006ca By Jennifer Rubin May 10 at 9:15 AM
The New York Times reported, “Senior White House and Justice Department officials had been working on building a case against Mr. Comey since at least last week, according to administration officials. Mr. Sessions had been charged with coming up with reasons to fire him, officials said.”
If this is true — that Sessions was charged by President Trump (no one else would have the authority) to figure out reasons to fire Comey — then the question hanging over the presidency is: What was the real reason? If the reason was not that Trump, after all that talk about “locking up” Hillary Clinton and praise last October for Comey’s letter reintroducing the Clinton email investigation into the campaign, suddenly realized Comey had behaved improperly under Justice Department rules, then the rationale is a lie. The letters from Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein are therefore part of a pretext for firing the FBI director engaged in an investigation of the president and his campaign’s conduct.
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Rubin chumming the waters
