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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeffrey Toobin says Trump will appoint a political stooge to lead the FBI:
Sheriff Clarke, Rudy or Chris Christie.
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Jeffrey Toobin says Trump will appoint a political stooge to lead the FBI: (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2017
OP
countryjake
(8,554 posts)1. This is also a result of disgruntled rank-and-file FBIers...
who hate Sec. Clinton and supported Trump in last year's campaign. Some have been after her for years and despise Jim Comey for ending their investigation last year.
I wouldn't be surprised if Trump draws from within that agency for Comey's replacement. He'll need more than some stooge to effectively get away with this.
This is deep water.
applegrove
(118,022 posts)2. I'm sure there are disgruntled FBI people on both sides. There
probably always are. What is different is that they are acting out.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)4. I'm thinking someone like Jim Kallstrom, a rabid Clinton hater
Trump's promise to "lock her up" has many of his most faithful supporters chewing nails, so he'll need a guy with FBI or the InJustice Dept. "connections" to go after her now.
Check some of these live-updates out:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2017/may/09/james-comey-fired-fbi-trump-white-house-live
Keith Schiller, Trumps longtime bodyguard, hand delivered a copy of letter sacking Comey to the FBI.
Schiller, whose title in the administration is Director of Oval Office Operations, is the subject of ongoing litigation for allegedly assaulting protestors outside Trump Tower in 2015.
The loyal Trump aide has worked for the President since 1999 when he was first hired to be Trumps bodyguard and constantly accompanied Trump on the campaign trial.
The dispatch of Schiller, a former New York City policeman, to formally notify Comey of his firing is one of the more unusual aspects of the drama. Comey, as we have noted below, was not in Washington to receive the letter and instead, reportedly learned of his dismissal from television news.
Keith Schiller, Trumps longtime bodyguard, hand delivered a copy of letter sacking Comey to the FBI.
Schiller, whose title in the administration is Director of Oval Office Operations, is the subject of ongoing litigation for allegedly assaulting protestors outside Trump Tower in 2015.
The loyal Trump aide has worked for the President since 1999 when he was first hired to be Trumps bodyguard and constantly accompanied Trump on the campaign trial.
The dispatch of Schiller, a former New York City policeman, to formally notify Comey of his firing is one of the more unusual aspects of the drama. Comey, as we have noted below, was not in Washington to receive the letter and instead, reportedly learned of his dismissal from television news.
lovemydogs
(575 posts)3. I agree and have said so in another thread.
He will appoint a Trump stooge
William769
(55,124 posts)5. Micheal Flynn. nt
Greywing
(1,124 posts)6. Joe Arpaio n/t