Trump fires FBI Director Comey!

This is what fascism looks like. They say they fired him for his handling of the Clinton emails but it's a little too delayed for anyone to believe that. They fired him because he was leading an investigation that would show they -- a whole truckload of them -- Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn, and a long list of their team, topped with Donald Trump himself, were working for Putin in exchange for money. 

My gut says this is the shocking moment that was predicted. 

Except that now that Comey owes no one any loyalty, and they are calling for an independent investigation...

Anyone want to guess what will happen if Comey gets subpoenaed to testify? 

James, I was the one who had that vision of a shocking moment almost of year ago for the spring of 2017.  Since Trump was elected there have been so many surprising moments that bordered on shock, but nothing shocked me quite so much as today's headlines. First  I saw the ACLU advisory against traveling in Texas -- because, says the ACLU, non whites can now be detained without cause in Texas just because they are not white.  Then came the Comey firing , and that act shocked me.  This is what fascism looks like.  This is Trump having morphed way beyong the toddler fascist I saw he was when he was awaiting the outcome of the Electoral College.    Sally Yates gave her testimony that she was fired because she had warned the White House about Flynn's lying about meeting with the Russians.  Of course she was fired -- they all were meeting with the Russians - Monaford, Kushner, Trump, Flynn, Sessions, Tillerson, Carter Page, Erik Prince, Wilbur Ross, JD Gordon.  It's a long list of Trump team Russian operatives.  This is high treason. It was shocking when I read about it back in March, but the firing of Comey means that justice will not happen in this Administration.  It reminds me of what Nixon tried to do, but failed to do when he fired the Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox who was investigating him. Only this time we are in a new era and Trump is not going to go down as quickly as Nixon, because Trump has surrounded himself with men who are in deep with the Russians. This was a clever tactic.  They all have motive to cover it up. And Trump's sins are much greater than Nixon's.   

When I went to bed last night, I was quite relax. When I woke up this morning I was very edgy. I usually feel doubt or double guess things. But this was different, even before I look at the news. First thing I read was about Texas, my heart drop, now Comey. I really feel they are stirring the pot. I actually dread this weekend coming. It seems all bigger things happens on the weekend when everyone is away from the White House.

I don't know that Comey will have access to the investigation now that he is fired. We are talking about thousands of pages of information.  He may be replaced by another Russian-friendly guy who is also invested in keeping things quiet. 

Except people smell blood, now. They're on the trail. Comey either got too close or knows SOMETHING for Trump to fire him. That's three people now he's done that to. Something is gonna leak, by law of averages...

I think he did it because he was cornered. Like Nixon was.

...and that didn't work out so well for Nixon. But, Nixon never fired a FBI director.