Trump said he fired Comey because “he wasn’t doing a good job. Very simply.” According to the Justice Department’s memo that went along with Comey’s termination letter, the administration lost faith because of the way Comey handled the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton. But to believe that’s the real reason, you have to believe that Comey — the guy overseeing the investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign — was let go for doing the same things Trump praised Comey for six months ago, when Trump said the FBI director had “guts” and “did the right thing.”
There’s nothing normal about that. That’s tin-pot dictator territory. It’s an abuse of power. And not only that, if it was meant to put a lid on the Russia investigation, it backfired. Firing Comey just keeps Russia in the headlines.
Whenever I criticize Trump, I lose listeners and Twitter followers. And I don’t take that lightly — I don’t want to lose the folks who are good enough to tune in daily to hear what I have to say. But if I start pulling my punches just because I’m a Trump backer, then I’m not really doing my job. It’s wrong that he hired so many Goldman Sachs guys for his Cabinet and White House staff. It’s wrong that he questioned the credibility of our intelligence community when the Russia story broke. He shouldn’t have agreed to Congress’s b.s. spending bill, and he should quit stalling on building the wall.
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