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May 2017 Comey’s Firing
Trump’s firing of FBI James Comey is an enormous abuse of
executive power whose purpose is to derail an investigation that was coming too
close to the White House.
Trump demanded “loyalty” and made Comey an offer he had to
reduce – scuttle the Russia investigation and retain his job, a blatant
obstruction of justice – an impeachable offence.
This
will go down in history as the biggest scandal in US history. Recall how Trump
heaped praise on Comey when he tilted the presidency in his favor by reopening
the FBI the enquiry into Clinton’s email server – just day before the 2016
election. Trump then “bludgeoned” Clinton with demands to “lock her up” to the
delight of his adoring fans. But now the shoe is on the other foot, an angry
Trump fired Comey when he learned that he had sought approval for additional
resources to investigate the Russia hacking scandal. Thus far, a number of Trump’s associate’s shady
activities have been exposed from Paul Manafort,
one of Mr. Trump’s campaign managers, Roger Stone, a longtime confidant, Carter
Page, one of the campaign’s foreign-policy advisers and Michael Flynn, the
disgraced former national security adviser.
Given all that has recently happened with the firing of Sally
Yates, the acting attorney general and the dismissal of the US States
attorneys, there is little hope that Trump or his associates will ever be held
accountable for their misdeeds. Only a groundswell of public outrage can steer
our faltering democracy and rescue it from tyrannical rule.
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