Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

in other news, this is something a 12 yo would do. "I certified it at the post office!"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-09/trump-preparing-certified-letter-attesting-to-no-russia-ties

Well.

xpost

Schumer calling for a Special Prosecutor (yet again)

lol

You. Owe. Trump. Nothing. https://t.co/RGcj6XRQML

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) May 9, 2017

I know the Beatles didn't like that Heath guy takin their money

It was Wilson who has dipping into George's pocket.

https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/862083392166404097?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

firing's very much in character

beatle tax entered in the heath ledger

Maverickin'!

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.): “While the President has the legal authority to remove the Director of the FBI, I am disappointed in the President’s decision to remove James Comey from office. James Comey is a man of honor and integrity, and he has led the FBI well in extraordinary circumstances. I have long called for a special congressional committee to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. The president’s decision to remove the FBI Director only confirms the need and the urgency of such a committee.”

uh uh, mr wilson; uh uh, mr heath

lmao

FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian pic.twitter.com/PatArKOZlk

— RichardNixonLibrary (@NixonLibrary) May 9, 2017

eh I expect Nixon to tweet this fact soon

this is not real good either and is going to get lost in today's news

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/us-census-director-resigns-amid-turmoil-over-funding-of-2020-count/2017/05/09/8f8657c6-34ea-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html?utm_term=.ab19e0276842

the reason nobody fired Hoover is because Hoover had dirt on every single President that ever came into office and they all knew it

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_a68vxWAAAc6OX.jpg

cia director dustpan never let anything get swept under the rug tho

US Sen Joe Manchin says Sen Intel Comm will call Comey to testify over his firing and what he was investigating.

— Politics1.com (@Politics1com) May 9, 2017

who even knows

My staff and I are reviewing legislation to establish an independent commission on Russia. The second paragraph of this letter is bizarre. https://t.co/wXeDtVIQiP

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 9, 2017

Burr's suspicious

Just in from Burr: “I am troubled by the timing and reasoning of Jim Comey’s termination." pic.twitter.com/sNl98EVRWJ

— Ali Watkins (@AliWatkins) May 9, 2017

You know, I'd believe this

Senior officials at White House did not think firing FBI Director Comey would be a big political explosion.@DanaBashCNN

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) May 9, 2017

hahahahaha

so glad the republicans got their way and we're running the government like a business

I'm also reading somewhere that supposedly Trump's meeting with Lavrov tomorrow? These things called optics...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-asked-doj-for-a-rationale

This was a very closely kept credit at the White House. I’m told only a handful of top advisories knew this was coming. I am told just moments ago that the President himself has been considering this, been thinking about this for at least a week. Did not necessarily have the rationale when they first started talking about this but then asked the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General to look for that rationale and that explanation.

And indeed, I fully believe the WH types are that dumb

.@DanaBashCNN The thinking was that b/c Dems were saying precisely what Rosenstein said in his letter, that there wouldn’t be a backlash (@DanaBashCNN)

— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) May 9, 2017

I feel like we're going to need more than one thread for this month

Lmao

Berke Breathed, get on this stat

in other news, this is something a 12 yo would do. "I certified it at the post office!"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-09/trump-preparing-certified-letter-attesting-to-no-russia-ties

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 9, 2017 6:09 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sooooo WHEN his collusion is definitely proven (because every 'fire Comey'-esque move he makes severely erodes my skepticism wrt whether he himself was involved in the collusion), does this have any potential legal bearing? Like getting him transferred permanently into solitary confinement?

(I'm pretending for the moment that the rule of law won't get a definitive bullet to the back of the head sometime before year's end. Allow me my little dreams, won't you.)

oh MAN at this comey news. wow.

from the NYT coverage:

Mr. Comey, who is three years into a 10-year term at the helm of the F.B.I., learned from news reports that he had been fired while addressing bureau employees in Los Angeles. While Mr. Comey spoke, television screens in the background began flashing the news. Shortly after, a letter was delivered to F.B.I. Headquarters in Washington.

now that would have been a fun room to be in

so sen. mark warner is saying comey is still testifying on thursday. that sally yates / james clapper testimony was already too exciting

they'll just grill him on his handling of the hillary email server

i'd like to grill a lot of people right now, literally

I'm grilling a burger!

Whoops!

When James Comey first learned he had been fired, he thought it was a fairly funny prank https://t.co/cy1VYUKHJZ pic.twitter.com/QWqd8qNf5i

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) May 10, 2017

yeah the GOP questions for Comey will be sheer insanity

...aaaand half the country will be "yeah, why wasn't Hillary sent to Gitmo??" *fart*

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/09/white-house-fires-fbi-director-james-comey.html

McCabe may have also violated Justice Department rules, which bar contacts between the FBI and WH officials, when he spoke to the president’s chief of staff about the ongoing investigation into Russia’s efforts to subvert the U.S. elections.
But even that leadership change could be short-lived. A well-wired federal law enforcement source told The Daily Beast rumors are also flying about McCabe’s potential resignation or firing. The source added that given current national security threats, it’s unlikely that would happen for the next few weeks.

my congressman:

Carlos Curbelo‏Verified account @carloslcurbelo 8m8 minutes ago

No one should find out via the television that they've been fired. If true, that's poor form and plain unprofessional. #Comey

yes, poor form donald

indelicate

#shocked

FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds! The phony...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2017

this is bleak

https://www.lawfareblog.com/nightmare-scenario-trump-fires-comey-one-man-who-would-stand-him

On November 10, we wrote that that Trump’s firing of Comey would be a “a clear bellwether to both the national security and civil libertarian communities that things are going terribly wrong.”

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/politics/grand-jury-fbi-russia/index.html

that lawfare thing is a bad take

Benjamin Wittes (of lawfare) and Comey are close friends.

Re.: Rudy. He still has a weird amount of sway over righties despite stuff like

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--XZ2iqGJI--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/m3pqbpuxpz5jzjuk74l9.png

that lawfare thing is a bad take

Genuine q - how so? Given you have a p good inside take on all this crap.