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Good, ever-lovin’ grief, man!<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“There generally shouldn’t be communications about pending investigations and if you need an explanation why, see: Watergate, basically,”\u00a0according to\u00a0Kathleen Clark, an ethics expert at Washington University’s School of Law, in comments to NBC News.<\/p>\n

Improprieties keep mounting<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The president wanted Comey to focus more on\u00a0White House\u00a0leaks and less on the Russia matter. Comey wouldn’t relent on the Russia probe. So, he got canned!<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

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<\/em> is going on here?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

This is a pretty damn serious matter, even if the president of the United States doesn’t think so.<\/p>\n\n

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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 … Continue reading Can’t this guy get anything straight?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,1693,6386,6242],"class_list":["post-21580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-fbi-probe","tag-james-comey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21582,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21580\/revisions\/21582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}