Celebrity throne room …. Comey got fired because he was closing in on Trump and because indictments are on their way with paperwork completed before he got that strange letter from POTUS45* attempting to codify Trump’s innocence.
Termination letters often have either a generic excuse or in Trump’s case some rationalization which is what Rosenstein and Sessions spent time concocting last week.
The urgency to fire Comey came from an upcoming open session with the Senate Intelligence Committee as well as Trump’s meltdown following the Sally Yates session in from the Senate espionage subcommittee. And then there’s today’s visit by the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, the person who ordered the hacking.
And most importantly there are now three grand juries ready to bring indictments.
Now Lavrov, the person who orchestrated the Russian hacking is coming to the WH today ...whereupon he will make some vague statement saying he doesn’t know anything and POTUS45* will claim that has some probative value. And then there’s Kissinger’s visit, presumably Lavrov has business with Putin’s buddy as well.
The FBI is conducting a counter-intelligence operation, so even with the AG compromised to the point of recusal, that division will do their constitutional duty. The Sessions comment that there’s no need for a Special Prosecutor is as flimsy as the reasons for firing Comey as “being unfair to HRC”.
GOD-EMPEROR TRUMP
President Trump’s May 9, 2017 letter firing now-former FBI Director James Comey in part reads, “I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation[.]”
However, a recent court filing by the Department of Justice on behalf of the FBI in an ongoing FOIA lawsuit plainly indicates the FBI has an active investigation pertaining to Donald Trump’s actions related to actual or potential election-related hacking and espionage by Russia.
The lawsuit is filed by Ryan Shapiro, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) PhD candidate/Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University research affiliate, and Jason Leopold, Senior Investigative Journalist at BuzzFeed News.
On August 18, 2016, Shapiro and Leopold submitted a FOIA request to the FBI seeking “disclosure of any and all records, including investigative records, mentioning or referring to Donald J. Trump’s statement on 27 July, 2016 [regarding Secretary Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails],
‘Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,’ and ‘I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.’”