That firing of Comey's daughter is some symmetrical, two-dimensional karmic strike.

[Baitball Blogger]

Can you imagine? If in 2016, James Comey could have shown a shred of self-control (He always had a thing against the Clintons) and followed conventional wisdom that stated that reports of investigations should not be reported to the public prior to an election in order to avoid influencing the outcome of an election...if he could have just waited, not only would he have had an honorable career retirement party, but his daughter would still be working today.

[Ocelot II]

1. Was she fired because she's Comey's daughter

or because she prosecuted Epstein and Maxwell? If it was just because she's Comey's daughter they might have sacked her months ago, but doing it now, when the Epstein matter is all aboil, makes me suspect it has more to do with Epstein than with Comey.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. The cause and effect begins with Trump's election.

If Trump had never been president, in 2016 or 2024, the Comey's careers would not have been in jeopardy for any reason.

[Ocelot II]

4. Maybe. But the immediate question before us is whether Maurene Comey was fired

because she prosecuted Epstein and Maxwell and maybe someone is afraid she'll leak inconvenient information. She wouldn't do that because she seems like an ethical prosecutor who wouldn't leak confidential materials, but Trump and his minions assume everyone else is as unethical as they are. Firing her just because she's Comey's daughter seems like the sort of petty crap Trump does all the time, but I suspect her involvement in the Epstein/Maxwell cases is the main reason for it. She will be fine; she'll get a good job at a prestigious law firm for more money. The loss isn't hers, it's DoJ's.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. I saw her firing as Trump's paving the way to his claim that the Democrats invented everything about Epstein.

If he really wanted to sell that lie, he would eliminate all those that he believed were part of the conspiracy.

But, that was just my take.

[Ocelot II]

9. That's possible, but I don't think he'll get very far.

And surely she wasn't the only prosecutor who worked on those cases. For that conspiracy to be even faintly credible wouldn't he have to fire everybody in that office who was involved in those prosecutions? Not that Trump's hoax-conspiracy theories are ever credible except to MAGA, and he's already losing them on this one.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Totally agree. He's not ahead on this one.

The more he tries to build on the cover-up, the worse it's getting for him.

By firing her, it's most likely that she'll bring out the information that he's trying to suppress. Hopefully, she takes after her old man. LOL!

[FSogol]

3. Next they'll fire everyone whose last name begins with "Co."

The Petulant Administration!.

[Irish_Dem]

5. It is Comey Karma: James stood up for evil and attacked good.

His daughter is being attacked by the evil James protected.

The Karma Train pulled up to the Comey station.

[H2O Man]

6. Respectfully disagree.

I think it is highly inaccurate, though emotionally pleasant, to say that he "always had a thing against the Clintons.

[Ocelot II]

7. His "thing against the Clintons" didn't really start up until Hillary ran against him.

I hate to cite Maureen Dowd but she did an interesting column about how they once were sort of friends. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/magazine/when-hillary-and-donald-were-friends.html

[H2O Man]

11. The AG put

Mr. Comey in an uncomfortable position by meeting former president Clinton on a plane, an act of at very least horrible timing. It was a terrible look that would be hard to explain as just talking about grandchildren. Thus, Mr. Comey held the summer press conference to announce the DOJ would not indict the Democratic nominee for president. Mr. Comey said the case was closed, but if it re-opened, he would notify a House committee.

No elected official has the right to use a private server for e-mails regarding official business. I will venture that no Democrat would be fine with this, if the felon conducted government business on a private server.

Near election time, it was found that Huma Abiden's husband, disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, had classified documents on his lap top that Huma sometimes used. Because Weiner was by then a repeat sex offender, the FBI had searched the computer. That is, of course, their job. They referred this to the DOJ.

Mr, Comey had a choice: report it to the House committee, or keep it quiet. Of course, he was aware that through FBI sources, it would leak. It would have appeared that he acted to protect Ms. Clinton, and had lied to the committee. He made what he considered the lesser of two bad choices. Of course, republican committee members shared his message with the media immediately.

It is curious that some good people still ask why Mr. Comey didn't tell the public that the FBI was investigating trump before the elections? This displays an unawareness of the FBI/DOJ not commenting on on-going investigations. More, they were not investigating trump before the election; their focus was on four individuals running his campaign. The investigation into trump literally opened the day after he fired Mr. Comey.

Thanks for the link! Much appreciated.

[Ocelot II]

12. Trump fired Comey because Comey wouldn't swear fealty to him, and because

Comey had testified to Congress that there had been Russian interference in the 2016 elections and that there was an ongoing investigation. In March that year he confirmed that the FBI was investigating links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies, though he never implicated Trump directly; and Trump sacked him without warning in May. Comey kept notes of his conversations with Trump, because he "was honestly concerned he might lie" about them. "I knew there might come a day when I might need a record of what happened," he said. These are fun reading: https://static01.nyt.com/files/2018/us/politics/20180419-james-comey-memos.pdf If Comey helped Trump win the 2016 election by reopening the Clinton case, you'd think Trump would be grateful, but the Russia investigation infuriated him. Whatever you might think of Comey, I believe this opinion piece about how Bill Barr and others caved to Trump was spot on, maybe even more so now:

Amoral leaders have a way of revealing the character of those around them. Sometimes what they reveal is inspiring. For example, James Mattis, the former secretary of defense, resigned over principle, a concept so alien to Mr. Trump that it took days for the president to realize what had happened, before he could start lying about the man.

But more often, proximity to an amoral leader reveals something depressing. I think that’s at least part of what we’ve seen with Bill Barr and Rod Rosenstein. Accomplished people lacking inner strength can’t resist the compromises necessary to survive Mr. Trump and that adds up to something they will never recover from. It takes character like Mr. Mattis’s to avoid the damage, because Mr. Trump eats your soul in small bites.

It starts with your sitting silent while he lies, both in public and private, making you complicit by your silence. In meetings with him, his assertions about what “everyone thinks” and what is “obviously true” wash over you, unchallenged, as they did at our private dinner on Jan. 27, 2017, because he’s the president and he rarely stops talking. As a result, Mr. Trump pulls all of those present into a silent circle of assent.

Speaking rapid-fire with no spot for others to jump into the conversation, Mr. Trump makes everyone a co-conspirator to his preferred set of facts, or delusions. I have felt it — this president building with his words a web of alternative reality and busily wrapping it around all of us in the room.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/opinion/william-barr-testimony.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE8.igU_.5XHixJiUJhn3&smid=url-share