What Is He HUGELY Afraid Of?

EXTRA!

The recent posting on this blog talked about our “irrelevant” President.  Well, it appears that he has recognized his irrelevancy and decided to do something about it.  What he has done, in fitting with his disconnect with governing, makes no sense whatsoever, unless his motivation is as discussed below.  That is the only thing it has relevance to: his campaign’s Russian connection.

The reasons given for the sudden dismissal of FBI Director James Comey do not hold water.   Up until now, there had been plenty of time to fire him if the reason for it was his failure to recommend the prosecution of Hillary Clinton whose handling of her emails he had characterized as “extremely careless.”  Similarly, his ultimate writing off of the emails that Clinton’s assistant, Huma Abedin, had forwarded to her husband for printing as not revealing anything the Bureau did not already know isn’t grounds for termination either.   Neither of these acts seemed to have caused the Bureau nor the country to lose confidence in the FBI Director as the President seems to claim.

It is quite obvious that the President wanted Comey fired and told the Department of Justice to come up with something, anything, which they did.  The real reason for the termination probably was the FBI’s investigation of ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump Presidential campaign.  Anytime progress in that area appears likely, the President dons his “Apprentice” role and fires someone.  He is afraid of something.  "Hugely" afraid.

Preet Bharara, the Federal Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Sally Yates, the Acting Attorney General who nailed down the facts on Michael Flynn, both were fired when it appeared they were on the trail of something important in regard to that investigation.  True, both were due to be replaced sooner or later because of the results of the Presidential election, but both terminations were unduly rushed.   Why?  The same holds true for James Comey’s dismissal.  Why at this time?  What was he about to discover?  What couldn’t wait for his return from California?

And why did the President, in his dismissal letter, bother to specifically mention that Comey had repeatedly told him that he was not being investigated implying that the investigation regarding Russia was not the reason for the dismissal.  That would have been better left unsaid.  His saying it reveals a lot about his real motivation in firing Comey.

Could it be that some of the incriminating material in that mysterious “dossier” amassed by that retired British intelligence officer, tying the Trump campaign and possibly Trump himself to Russian involvement has been confirmed, and the “dismissals” are a pathetic effort by the President to continue to block these revelations from being made?  Do they document his dependence upon and indebtedness to Russian “oligarchs” in his business dealings … or worse?  His refusal to release tax returns suggests that they too might provide this kind of information.

The House’s investigation into Russia’s involvement in our election was compromised when its Intelligence Committee’s chairperson met with the President to share information with him.  The Senate’s similar investigation has been seriously hampered by inadequate staffing.  And now, the President’s firing of Comey shows his intent to cripple the FBI’s investigation as well.  Meanwhile, the Democrats and some Republicans are asking for the appointment of an Independent Prosecutor.

I am certain, the President will do everything he can to prevent the appointment of an Independent Prosecutor, which is the task of the brand-new Deputy Attorney General, filling the role of the Attorney General who has recused himself in regard to this investigation because of his having met with Russians himself at the Republican convention.

Rather than personally fire Comey, the President rushed to do it while the FBI Director was in California. Besides showing his total lack of class and good manners, this perhaps gave him time to check out Comey’s office, looking for material pertinent to the investigation. 

This whole thing stinks.  The odor is so foul that even Republicans are going to start deserting this boorish, ill-prepared and unqualified President they were stupid enough to nominate and convince gullible voters to support.  The President has said that his supporters are so loyal that “he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and no one would care.”  He is now putting that loyalty to the test. 

Looming up, eighteen months from now, are elections for both Houses of Congress.  These are now “on the table” as is even the Presidency itself.  The stakes are high.

JL         

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