White House: Trump Has Considered Firing Comey Since Day Of His Election

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By ESME CRIBB Published MAY 10, 2017 2:05 PM

White House deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders on Wednesday said that President Donald Trump has considered pushing out former FBI Director James Comey, who was abruptly fired Tuesday night, since the day Trump won the 2016 election.

“He’d lost confidence in Director Comey, and frankly, he’d been considering letting Director Comey go since the day he was elected,” Sanders said at the daily White House briefing. “The President had lost confidence in Comey from the day he was elected.”

NBC News reporter Hallie Jackson pointed out that White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday signaled Trump’s support for Comey, hours before the former director’s surprise termination. “On May 3rd, Sean came out and said the President has full confidence in his FBI director,” she said. “Why did he say that?”

Sanders said Trump spoke to members of the FBI and “questioned Director Comey’s reason for needing to stay” at the bureau, which is investigating possible ties between members of Trump’s campaign and Russian officials.

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

By ESME CRIBB Published MAY 10, 2017 2:18 PM

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.”

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[underpants]

1. Oh yeah well we COULDA!!!

These are children

[hamsterjill]

2. Utter bullshit.

I call bullshit when I see bullshit, and we all know this is bullshit.

[NewRedDawn]

13. I second .

Bullshit is right!

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Do any of his cabal realize that the FBI Director position has a 10-year term?

It was stop-gap measure to put a time limit on the leadership of a critical investigative body post-Hoover, but still allow for some sort of extended continuity, despite the eventual decision to have the position serve at the pleasure of the President (but requiring extraordinary reasons for termination).

[bettyellen]

4. What is this new meme separating Trump the candidate from Trump the president? Sounds like part of

The defense they'll try to use as people on his campaign get (I hope) indicted? And he'll claim his swift firing of Flynn is him draining the swamp. That he knew nothing about it- but the rules and norms for candidates are different. And that nothing he did as a candidate matters. That's what I am hearing from Kelly and Sarah.

[DonViejo]

10. They've tried that argument in Court with the immigration ban...

hasn't worked (yet) in the Courts but, never know with the general public. "Oh, he was campaigning, he's different now that he's been elected"

[bettyellen]

11. He's admitted he didn't want HRC prosecuted and tried to convince his angry mob they didn't either..

I think it was that first rally he did? He admitted prancing the voters, said he doesn't care anymore. I think they all stuck their fingers in their ears.

[Solly Mack]

5. Corn-speckled bovine caca

[gademocrat7]

6. You lie, Sarah!

[Scarsdale]

15. Sarah Suckabee Sanders

Could not get a job on Faux, too heavy, too brunette. Even her fat daddy, Mike Suckabee could not open any doors for her. Does she know that her boss, tRump likely considers her a 4 possibly 5 at best?

[Javaman]

7. he "considered it" but only did it when Comey became a liability.

aka tRump is full of shit.

[Honeycombe8]

8. I knew it. I was surprised Trump hadn't fired him before, given Trump's personality and M.O.

Trump tries to ruin careers and people's lives, if they do anything that is against him. He's brutal. So I expected him to fire Comey on Day One.

But when he didn't, I thought he'd rec'd counsel not to do that. So I'm caught off guard that he would do that NOW, when it looks so bad for Trump doing that and he cannot use an election campaign reason.

[Deb]

9. Anti-American minds really cannot comprehend that Dems put Country over party

They are a pathetic excuse for a political party

[thegoose]

12. God, these liars

Utter contempt for the truth. And so obvious! I hate what that orange shitstain is doing to this country.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Oops, Sarah let slip what's really going on.

They've been working on firing him for a long time, but yesterday there were subpoenas for financial records.

Even more likely the trigger was a few days ago when Comey's investigation requested an increase in budget, because it was widening and getting more serious and getting closer to tRump.

Notice how the AG (recused but not acting recused) and Dep AG dated their letters yesterday.

[nycbos]

16. He knew that Comey has looking into Russia and was looking for a credible reasons.

[Saviolo]

17. He really should have, too!

I said this in another thread:

Right after he (Comey) dropped the "revelations" about the new set of emails under investigation (that of course turned out to be a tempest in a teapot), I said that no matter who wins the election, Comey's finished. No one can properly trust him any longer. Hillary sure can't trust him to be non-partisan, and Trump can't trust him to be loyal, because what he did for Trump was, itself, an act of disloyalty.

If Trump had ditched Comey right after the election, he might have gotten away with the "It was because of the Hillary thing" that they're trying to peddle, but not now. It may even have won Trump some bipartisanism points with the media. But the sudden firing now? No way. His reasons are transparent and obvious. If they really cared about how he treated Hillary, it would have happened a month ago.

Firing him now was idiotic. Trump can't plan 2 minutes ahead, never mind two months. He reacts to what's happening about 5 minutes ago. Part of the GOP's biggest problem is a disturbing lack of foresight and long-term planning. Of course, then you realize that there are actually people IN THE GOVERNMENT who believe that the Rapture will happen any day and it'll all be irrelevant because they'll be raised up to heaven. Also, let the grandkids take care of all of these problems.

[Princess Turandot]

18. They're asserting this now only because the fact that Comey *wasn't* fired by Trump in January...

directly refutes their 'he was soooooo unfair to HRC' horseshit explanation for his removal. That fact has been brought up by everyone reporting on this except for the right-wing outlets.

[FarPoint]

19. LIAR, LIAR LIAR.

He's a liar

[louis-t]

20. Right, and what better time to pull the trigger than

when the heat is getting turned up. Fuck Trump.

[joanbarnes]

21. Was this before or after Trump blew kisses to Comey?

[itcfish]

22. OMG

Do these people ever tell the truth? Ever?