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I'm curious how many people think Comey should have kept his job solely based on how he handled the Clinton "investigation" leading up to the election.

Aside from all things Trump, I think he screwed up enough to warrant his replacement. I also think Trump is an idiot for handling it like he did and he should have canned him right away, if at all.

Comey's own testimony shows what a fool Comey is.
 
mgidm86 said:
I'm curious how many people think Comey should have kept his job solely based on how he handled the Clinton "investigation" leading up to the election.

Aside from all things Trump, I think he screwed up enough to warrant his replacement. I also think Trump is an idiot for handling it like he did and he should have canned him right away, if at all.

Comey's own testimony shows what a fool Comey is.
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That would only be relevant if that was part of Trump's decision. It wasn't. Efforts to consider if he should have been fired over the Clinton handling seems really misleading.

By the way, one person who thought he was very brave for it was Trump.
 
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mgidm86 said:
I'm curious how many people think Comey should have kept his job solely based on how he handled the Clinton "investigation" leading up to the election.

Aside from all things Trump, I think he screwed up enough to warrant his replacement. I also think Trump is an idiot for handling it like he did and he should have canned him right away, if at all.

Comey's own testimony shows what a fool Comey is.
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He's leagues more trustworthy than Trump, tho. When impeachment rolls around, Comey's testimony is going to be one of the crucial points that bury Trump and his wretched presidency.
 
Argumemnon said:
"See? He's not saying anything incriminating because there's nothing there." (paraphrasing) most definitely is using the first clause to prove the second, regardless of how "because" should normally be used.
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It sounds like begging the question to me.

"I wanted an automatic transmission."
"Why?"
"Because I didn't want to shift."
 
mgidm86 said:
I'm curious how many people think Comey should have kept his job solely based on how he handled the Clinton "investigation" leading up to the election.
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Leading question.
I am one who thinks there is no reason he should not have kept his job. As the head of the FBI is typically a job that is served out and not replaced when a new President comes in, yes, he should have kept his job - but not "solely based on how he handled the Clinton investigation", nor at all based on the Clinton investigation, but based on the fact that he ran the FBI ok and there was no reason to replace him.

mgidm86 said:
Aside from all things Trump, I think he screwed up enough to warrant his replacement.
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Can you name anything specific?

mgidm86 said:
Comey's own testimony shows what a fool Comey is.
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Can you be specific?
 
Oystein said:
Leading question.
I am one who thinks there is no reason he should not have kept his job. As the head of the FBI is typically a job that is served out and not replaced when a new President comes in, yes, he should have kept his job - but not "solely based on how he handled the Clinton investigation", nor at all based on the Clinton investigation, but based on the fact that he ran the FBI ok and there was no reason to replace him.
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I disagree. Obama should have fired him the day he testified about the Clinton email inquiry. He violated policy that says the FBI does not comment on ongoing investigations. AND, worse, he went on and on about Clinton's careless mishandling of classified emails. FBI policy says that commenting about the behavior of a person under investigation is strictly forbidden.

Comey may have been a good FBI Director up to then but someone at that level should not be able to violate policy so egregiously and remain in place. After all, his errors arguably affected the outcome of the most important election in American - the election of the President.

So 100% of the error lies with Obama. I speculate that the reason he did not act is that the Republicans would have raised holy hell, claiming that he was attempting to influence the election toward HRC. Tough. He should have acted and taken the heat.
 
SezMe said:
I disagree. Obama should have fired him the day he testified about the Clinton email inquiry. He violated policy that says the FBI does not comment on ongoing investigations. AND, worse, he went on and on about Clinton's careless mishandling of classified emails. FBI policy says that commenting about the behavior of a person under investigation is strictly forbidden.

Comey may have been a good FBI Director up to then but someone at that level should not be able to violate policy so egregiously and remain in place. After all, his errors arguably affected the outcome of the most important election in American - the election of the President.

So 100% of the error lies with Obama. I speculate that the reason he did not act is that the Republicans would have raised holy hell, claiming that he was attempting to influence the election toward HRC. Tough. He should have acted and taken the heat.
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The joke is the suggestion that how Comey handled the Clinton investigation had anything to do at all as to why Trump fired Comey.

I can only think of 2 possible reasons why Trump fired Comey. The first is that Trump panicked when he realized the FBI investigation would continue and the second was that Comey had no interest in being a sycophant like other members of Trump's cabinet.

I still can't get over how servile and obsequious his cabinet was towards Trump during the last cabinet meeting.
 
SezMe said:
I disagree. Obama should have fired him the day he testified about the Clinton email inquiry. He violated policy that says the FBI does not comment on ongoing investigations. AND, worse, he went on and on about Clinton's careless mishandling of classified emails. FBI policy says that commenting about the behavior of a person under investigation is strictly forbidden.

Comey may have been a good FBI Director up to then but someone at that level should not be able to violate policy so egregiously and remain in place. After all, his errors arguably affected the outcome of the most important election in American - the election of the President.

So 100% of the error lies with Obama. I speculate that the reason he did not act is that the Republicans would have raised holy hell, claiming that he was attempting to influence the election toward HRC. Tough. He should have acted and taken the heat.
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I'm pretty sure that if Obama had fired Comey the day he testified about the Clinton email inquiry it would not have been particularly beneficial to Hillary's campaign prospects.

"Kiss of death." would be more likely.
 
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SezMe said:
So 100% of the error lies with Obama. I speculate that the reason he did not act is that the Republicans would have raised holy hell, claiming that he was attempting to influence the election toward HRC. Tough. He should have acted and taken the heat.
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He wouldn't have taken the heat. It would have been all about trashing Hillary. I agree his hesitancy could be maddening. Aside from "we will find Osama bin Laden and we will kill him," he hemmed and hawed quite a bit.

ETA: What Quadraginta said.

acbytesla said:
I still can't get over how servile and obsequious his cabinet was towards Trump during the last cabinet meeting.
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If Betsy DeVos was there, I missed it. I think I watched the whole video. Don't really want to watch it again.
 
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Minoosh said:
If Betsy DeVos was there, I missed it. I think I watched the whole video. Don't really want to watch it again.
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DeVos at the creepy cabinet meeting: "It's a privilege to serve, to serve the students of this country, and to work to ensure that every child has an equal opportunity to get a great education, and therefore a great future."
 
Firestone said:
DeVos at the creepy cabinet meeting: "It's a privilege to serve, to serve the students of this country, and to work to ensure that every child has an equal opportunity to get a great education, and therefore a great future."
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Is that all she said? It's a pretty safe statement. No Trump praise though, if that is the whole of her remarks.
 
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