The Malignant Narcissist miscalculated big time by firing Comey
Because his problem is that he has no idea how other people function. He, like his ilk, who he has surrounded himself with and who he has appointed to destroy our government can "read" other people and that's why they're successful. Except they're blind to certain characteristics in normal human beings. They can't read people who are honest an who have principles of right and wrong they live by. People like Sally Yates for example.
Because Trump thinks the way he does he assumes that everyone is like him in that they're selfish and self-centered to the point that if they get what they want they'll be happy and free of any weaknesses such as the integrity to stand on principle or to question things that don't entail logic. He can read the lower and baser instincts because he has them himself. Integrity, or the sense that something is wrong in spite of one's personal opinion or preferences is impossible for him to read.
Trump and the other psychopaths he's surrounded himself with truly thought that because Democrats wanted Comey fired that we wouldn't question Trump's agenda if, after all, he did what we wanted anyway. That we would be so pleased that Comey was gone that we would just move on with our lives. It never occurred to them that we would question the timing, the motivations and the about face that Trump was exhibiting. That the principle he was violating would mean anything to us.
His problem is that we can see him for what he is now. We all know what he's doing. But he still thinks he has us fooled because he believes he managed to control the conversation again by deflecting what we were all talking about.
He's the one who has a tin ear when it comes to honesty and principle, and knowing right and wrong.
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is that they knew it all along and weren't fooled for a second. 
