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By MAGGIE HABERMAN and GLENN THRUSH MAY 10, 2017
WASHINGTON The countdown to President Trumps dismissal of James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, began last weekend with an enraged president stewing over Mr. Comeys testimony to Congress last week, when he admitted to being slightly nauseous about doing anything to get Mr. Trump elected.
Mr. Trump, according to people close to the president, had been openly talking about firing Mr. Comey for at least a week. Despite the objections from some of his aides about the optics and the lack of an obvious successor, the grumbling evolved into a tentative plan as he angrily watched the Sunday news shows at his Bedminster, N.J., golf resort.
By Monday, capping off months of festering grievances, Mr. Trump told people around him that he wanted Mr. Comey gone, repeatedly questioning Mr. Comeys fitness for the job and telling aides there was something wrong with him, several people familiar with the discussions said.
A White House spokeswoman on Wednesday offered a different account of how the decision was made to dismiss Mr. Comey. Justice Department officials on Monday urged Mr. Trump to fire Mr. Comey for atrocities committed during the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the deputy White House press secretary, told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday. The president merely endorsed that decision, she said.
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avebury
(10,951 posts)wacko didn't knock him off. Think Thomas Beckett being killed in Canterbury.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)then people looking for a reason to fire Comey. Then someone who thought themselves clever coming up with the official excuse about Clinton/Comey.
And now the backlash.
But I wouldn't overlook the Trump/Russia investigation either.
Trump's ego explodes and those around him see their chance to gain more control over the FBI investigation...especially Sessions.
It's a plus for Trump too...installing a flunky as FBI director....but it all beginning with his ego having a hissy fit? Yeah, I can see it.
They were all sitting around, trying to stop or slow down the investigation, and then WHAM!
Insult to the ego and the ball gets rolling. One of the reasons it came as a surprise to most of the staff....it was a spur of the moment decision once the ego took hold.
One of the reasons they keep stressing that the idea has been in the works for weeks.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Trump isn't Obama.
Ilsa
(61,687 posts)The crazy man is getting paranoid and buggy, like nixon, and is emotionally unstable. He might try to have people arrested for made up reasons for not jumping to his defense fast enough.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)this long?