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Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey

May 9, 2017 - 6:30pm
James Comey
James Comey

President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey, the White House announced Tuesday afternoon.

 "The president has accepted the recommendation of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation," White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters in the briefing room.

Staff at the FBI have yet to be officially told.
 
“The FBI is one of our Nation’s most cherished and respected institutions and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement,” Trump said in a statement released by the White House.

Comey, 56, was nominated in 2013 as FBI director by President Obama for a 10-year term. He was praised for his independence and integrity and spent three decades in law enforcement, some of that time under fire.
 
The White House said Trump "acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions" and that a search for a new permanent FBI director would "begin immediately."
 
In March, Comey announced with the authorization of the Justice Department that the bureau was investigating alleged coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.

The White House made the stunning announcement shortly after the FBI corrected a sentence in Comey's sworn testimony on Capitol Hill last week.

The director told lawmakers Huma Abedin, while she was a top aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department, had sent "hundreds and thousands" of emails to her husband's laptop, including some with classified information.   

On Tuesday, the FBI corrected that. A two-page letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee said that only "a small number" of the thousands of emails found on the laptop had been forwarded there, while most had simply been backed up from electronic devices.

This is a live story. Watch here for updates.

Reach Nancy Smith at nsmith@sunshinestatenews.com or at 228-282-2423. Twitter: NancyLBSmith. Information for this story came from CNN.com, The Hill newspaper, and FOX News


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Comey is a self-aggrandising ponce; and you only had to see his last appearance before Congress to discern that bit of "kabuki theater". I'm very familiar with the character and quality of FBI Agents and their investigations; and Comey NEVER DID FIT into that catagory... he is a hyper-political animal that Trump should have fired the day after his inauguration right along with Sally Yates.... The Justice Department (like the State department), is a "nest of vipers" that needs to be "cleaned out and fumigated"! {I firmly believe that a "quality candidate" for FBI Director (if they didn't want to promote "from within"), would be that black Sheriff from Missouri that FOX keeps using as a law-enforcement "talking head"}...

30 year LEO career and appointed highly by both parties... Must have done something right... Sometimes if it looks like and smells like chit, it really is, problem is, people will die for their partisan props, and that is why this country is dying... I can tell you I served my country to see better than this reality TV used car salesman...

Don't let it fool you. Trump is a sell out to the "Deep State". US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner has undisclosed business ties with Goldman Sachs as well as billionaires George Soros and Peter Thiel, according to people familiar with the matter and securities filings. The business relationships with major players in the financial and technology worlds, which hadn’t been previously revealed, are reportedly through a real estate tech startup Cadre that is co-founded and partially owned by Kushner. Soros and Thiel along with Goldman Sachs Group also own stakes in the enterprise. The head office of the new firm is located in a Manhattan building owned by the Kushner family’s company, according to people close to Cadre. The stake in the startup is one of the numerous interests, as well as ties to big financial institutions, which were not identified in Kushner’s government financial disclosure form, according to a Wall Street Journal review of securities and other filings. Other assets reportedly include loans totaling at least $1 billion, from more than 20 lenders to properties and companies part-owned by Kushner, the paper reported. The analysis also revealed that Kushner had provided personal guarantees on more than $300 million of the debt. Senior government officials in the United States are obligated to disclose all business interests before assuming office.

fake president...now that is funny...

Very wise choice by President Trump. To those who think that ongoing FBI work included investigation of Trump are Mistaken; he (FBI) was still working on investigation of Russian ties to Hillary and HER ties to security breaches and "Loose Lips". Comey had turned the FBI into a sad joke, headed nowhere but DOWN,

more BS from the fake president... This train wreck will implode any time now,,,

A fire is burning and it's Trump's money laundering for the Russians. Trump is circling the wagons but the government is coming after him. He can remove one or two people to install his puppets, but that won't stop the information. This removal of people who can damage him is just like Castro knocking off Che. Did anyone catch that bit about the Russian ambassador, the one Flynn spoke with, was suddenly dead? All this is connected. We are facing a constitutional crisis.

Draining the swamp baby, draining the Swamp.

He is not draining the swamp, he is building up the swamp. President Donald Trump‘s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, failed to mention, in his financial disclosure to the government, that he has a stake in a company that ties him to left-wing billionaire George Soros and investment bank Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street Journal revealed Kushner’s omission in a Tuesday article. The senior advisor to the President founded a startup in 2014 called Cadre. Kushner’s brother and a friend of his started the company, and it turns out Goldman Sachs and Soros are investors in Cadre, along with Trump supporter Peter Thiel. The newspaper disclosed that the enterprise “secured a $250 million line of credit from the family office of George Soros.” The Journal‘s report also points out that Kushner also neglected to disclose that he has “loans totaling at least $1 billion, from more than 20 lenders, to properties and companies part-owned by Mr. Kushner.” The Journal received this response from Mr. Kushner’s lawyer, Jamie Gorelick (a former deputy attorney general under former President Bill Clinton): Jamie Gorelick, a lawyer representing Mr. Kushner, said in a statement that his stake in Cadre is housed in a company he owns called BFPS Ventures LLC. His ownership of BFPS is reported in his financial-disclosure form, although it doesn’t mention Cadre. Ms. Gorelick said the Cadre stake is described in a revised version of his financial-disclosure form that will be made public after it has been certified by ethics officials. She said Mr. Kushner has previously discussed his Cadre ownership with the Office of Government Ethics and that Mr. Kushner has “resigned from Cadre’s board, assigned his voting rights, and reduced his ownership share.”

It's about time now let's find the real story about this train wreck of on again off again story. It doesn't matter how many emails Huma Abrdin sent she has ties to terrorist organizations. Furthermore she shouldn't have sent even one email to her husband with sensitive information. Comey had been a wet towel like he had something on him which wouldn't surprise me seeing how Obama secretly pried into many people's private life. You know why the dems are going crazy? Becuz they know Trump will get to the bottom of this and someone will pay. Their phony scam of we feel your pain is about to end

Or Trump is just trying to cover up his own mess.

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