According to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll Americans largely disagree with that rationale that former FBI Director James Comey was fired due to serious mistakes in the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
Statista’s Niall McCarthy details…
Rod Rosenstein, the newly appointed Deputy Attorney General whose memorandum on former FBI Director Comey’s failings precipitated President Trump’s decision to dismiss former FBI Director Comey, has appointed Comey’s predecessor, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, to supervise the FBI’s Russiagate investigation.
Rosenstein’s announcement reads as follows
Everyone who's had any interactions with Señor Trumpanzee has probably been doing the same Jim Comey was doing, namely keeping a careful record. Trump has a long, well-documented history as a real scumbag who lies more easily than anyone you've probably ever met.
President Trump has today rightly complained that he has been treated abysmally by the US political and media elite ever since he became President in January.
Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich. at the Capitol, July 24, 2013. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
In what may be the most material development of the day, moments ago GOP Representative Justin Amash (R-Mich.) said the report that President Trump pressured ousted FBI Director James Comey to end an investigation would merit impeachment if true, becoming the first Republican lawmaker to break from the party and hint at impeachment.
As The New York Times broke the story of a note by former FBI Director Comey written immediately after a meeting on 14th February 2017 between Comey and President Trump, the Democrats and the mainstream stirred up a predictable firestorm, with claims that the memo is proof Trump has been interfering in the FBI investigation into Russiagate and therefore constitutes an ‘obstruction of justice’
The Top brass of US intelligence agencies prepare to testify in Washington, May 11, 2017, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on major threats facing the U.S. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
The New York Times has published the sensational allegation that James Comey drafted a memo containing the details of a conversation he had with Donald Trump. According to the NYT, during a conversation Donald Trump had with then FBI director Comey, the President told JamesComey that it would be ideal to drop the investigation of Trump’s former National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn. Flynn is currently being investigated over the nature of conversations he held with Russia’s Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.
According to the New York Times,
Sometimes paranoia is justified By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • May 16, 2017 President Donald Trump is not exactly known for his self-restraint. The recent firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey was not handled with any delicacy and has unleashed a firestorm of criticism coming from across the political spectrum. […]
By Johan Galtung
A key slogan during the student revolt in Paris May 1968, soon 50 years ago, was Imagination au pouvoir! Bring imagination to power!
We were there, walking with thousands from Champs-Élysées to Place Etoile where a stentorian voice commanded us to sit in small groups in the circles under the Arch to “discuss the situation”. So we did.
