Good, ever-lovin’ grief, man!
Donald John Trump reportedly asked the then-FBI director, James Comey, if he — the president — was under investigation. Comey allegedly said “no.” The president then told Comey he’d think about keeping on the job. Then he fired him!
Oh, but here’s the good part: Donald Trump might have committed an ethical boo-boo by asking the FBI boss about a pending investigation involving, yep, the president himself.
“There generally shouldn’t be communications about pending investigations and if you need an explanation why, see: Watergate, basically,” according to Kathleen Clark, an ethics expert at Washington University’s School of Law, in comments to NBC News.
Trump described the conversation in an interview with NBC News anchor Lester Holt. And — wouldn’t you know it? — he’s raised even more eyebrows in the legal community.
More news is filtering out about how angry Trump had gotten with Comey. The final act occurred the other day when Comey — in quite animated testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee — kept harping on the investigation he was leading as it regards the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russian government officials.
The president wanted Comey to focus more on White House leaks and less on the Russia matter. Comey wouldn’t relent on the Russia probe. So, he got canned!
Except that Vice President Mike Pence said the firing had nothing to do with the Russia investigation. Really, Mr. Vice President? Talk to your boss about that, will you?
Can we get a straight answer? Is anyone in the White House able to communicate with Americans who want to know what in the name of constitutional crises is going on here?
As for the president wanting the FBI to look less at the allegations of Russian meddling in our election — and whether the Trump campaign was complicit in it — um, I think the feds should keep digging until they learn all there is to know.
This is a pretty damn serious matter, even if the president of the United States doesn’t think so.