When Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday evening, the stated reason in the letter submitted by the deputy Attorney General was Comey’s much-criticized handling of an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state.
The initially amicable, then increasingly more controversial, contentious and, finally, rancorous relationship between President Donald Trump and FBI Director James Comey has just concluded with the utterance of two of Trump's favorite words: 'You're fired."
According to a statement issued by the White House, the firing of Comey comes at the recommendation of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Below is the full statement from the White House:
Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,
For two years, this writer has been consumed by two subjects.
First, the presidency of Richard Nixon, in whose White House I served from its first day to its last, covered in my new book, “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
The second has been the astonishing campaign of Donald Trump and his first 100-plus days as president.
In many ways, the two men could not have been more different.
Excerpted from The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, March 2017, authored by Mark Faber; via MauldinEconomics.com,
Writing for https://www.dailybeast.com (February 4, 2017), Joel Kotkin opines under the title “The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials Into the New Serfs” that
Updates:
Both Yates and Clapper deny ever being an anonymous source in press reports:
Former DNI Clapper, former acting AG Yates deny ever being anonymous source in press reports on Trump or associates https://t.co/VO91R4PRlb pic.twitter.com/bk2RkRnNgm
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 8, 2017
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