FBI Director Comey fired by Trump

[Andrew NDB]

What do you think about this? Is this the smoking gun everyone has been waiting for to prove the Russian connections/collusions?

[Autbot_Benz]

Right after he fires Comey Trump meets with Russians the next day

Seriously he has fired Sally Yates Preet Bharara and Comey all who were investigating Russiagate

[plastroncafe]

[snake]

Good. No opposition here.

[Andrew NDB]

I dunno... I think everyone is jumping way too quickly and blindly on the "See! SEE! The Russians! The Russians!" train. Comey had almost 6 months to find Russian collusion evidence and nothing was found. The "Ooooh, he must have been real close, that's why he was fired!" seems largely nonsensical, or at least wishful thinking with no basis.

I think in reality it's because Trump never felt like Comey was "on his team." He's big about that. He seems to forgive (repeatedly) incompetence as long as he relatively feels like the person is loyal to him.

I believe the real catalyst was last week when Comey said he felt "mildly nauseous" that he may have unwittingly changed the results of the presidential election (i.e., when he was going after Hillary, twice during the campaign, the implication being that this sowed doubt about her into voters and cost her the election). Trump is pretty prideful about the election, as we know. He talks about it constantly. Hell, he's even still campaigning... months after winning. Now, someone like FBI Director Comey (who is already largely disliked by democrats and other high-ups) comes out and says someone other than Trump is owed credit for his election, or even suggests it... this person just painted a big bullseye on their head, if he has anything to say about it. And he does. And he did.

[plastroncafe]

I think there's a difference between, "Nothing was found," and "Nothing was released/reported to the public."