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posted by martyb on Friday May 12 2017, @02:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the Will-he-be-fired,-too?-- dept.

The new, temporary FBI Director Andrew G. McCabe says that employees loved Comey:

Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe Thursday rejected assertions by the White House that FBI employees had lost faith in James Comey and that the bureau's probe into Russian election meddling was one of its most minor concerns. "I hold Director Comey in the absolute highest regard. I have the highest respect for his considerable abilities and his integrity," McCabe told members of the Senate intelligence committee. He said Comey, who was fired by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, enjoyed "broad support within the FBI and still does to this day." He added, "The majority, the vast majority of FBI employees enjoyed a deep, positive connection to Director Comey."

Furthermore, he will inform the Senate of any interference with the Russia investigation:

Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe vowed Thursday that he would tell the Senate Intelligence Committee if the White House tried to interfere with the bureau's probe of possible coordination between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election — though he asserted that there had "been no effort to impede our investigation to date."

Meanwhile, President Trump has undermined the White House's messaging on Comey's firing, saying that he planned to fire "showboat" and "grandstander" James Comey regardless of any recommendation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions or Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein. The President also insists that he is not under FBI investigation.


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  • (Score: 2) by weeds on Friday May 12 2017, @05:16PM (1 child)

    by weeds (611) on Friday May 12 2017, @05:16PM (#508736) Journal

    ...he is a businessman who's used to being the boss, not a politician trained up in the thousand ways to backstab his friends and undermine the legitimate needs and desires of honest people.

    Clearly you don't now anything about business. And in particular about how Trump conducts business.
    Trump's disadvantage is that there are checks and balances in the government (so help us god) that don't exist when you are El Supremo. No one comes up through the political ranks if every time they open their mouth they step on their dick. (I'm not sure how the anatomy of that works especially given small hands, but it sounded funny in my head.)
    I think being president is more akin to being a board member of a not-for-profit than being the CEO of a company you own - more like Survivor than Celebrity Apprentice. Many times in my lifetime I have heard, "We need a businessman in the white house. Someone who will run the country like a business and not another politician." So far, I'm not thrilled. However, we had a choice between a lying politician and a lying businessman. Not much of a choice.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday May 13 2017, @12:58AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday May 13 2017, @12:58AM (#508925) Journal

    I'm not sure how that's different from what I said, because it seems to me you and I are both saying essentially the same thing: Trump's used to ruling by fiat, but Presidents don't get to do that.

    The election was a particularly terrible choice. In the end I voted for Trump because I knew that Hillary would instantly reverse herself yet again and push through the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would have put the final nail in the coffin of the American middle class; there was a small chance Trump would kill the TPP. Thank god he did that after he won. And that one issue was so existentially huge for most Americans that he could screw up a lot on everything else and it would still be a net win for America. All the missteps and chaos so far don't even come close to cancelling out that win (except in the minds of the hysterical, the credulous, and the cynical partisan hacks).

    Trump is an impresario and always has been. When he declared he was running for President I said then he was only doing it so he could put "Trump" on everything in the country that doesn't already bear his name, and I still think so. He's not doing the President gig to get money, because he has enough money. He's not doing it for power, because he arguably has less power now than he did before, because he has to play with others. He's not doing it because he wants to drain the swamp; he has surrounded himself with people who are of the swamp. He is not doing it because he loves America, because the jet set scoff at such quaint notions of nation. He's doing it for ego.

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