{"id":133447,"date":"2017-05-10T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/10\/the-rage-of-the-president-toward-a-disloyal-servant.html"},"modified":"2017-05-10T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T03:25:07","slug":"the-rage-of-the-president-toward-a-disloyal-servant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/10\/the-rage-of-the-president-toward-a-disloyal-servant.html","title":{"rendered":"The Rage of the President toward a Disloyal Servant"},"content":{"rendered":"

I'm always a little hesitant about "insider" stories that portray High Drama in scenes that can't be confirmed except through anonymous sourcing. But between this and the parallel multi-sourced WaPo story [1], it's pretty clear that Trump's simmering anger against Comey — between failing to follow through on Clinton's email brouhaha with a smoking gun, failing to dig up who leaked info about surveillance on Trump team members to the press, failing to back up Trump's accusations of political surveillance by the Obama Administration, and, most of all, continuing to keep looking at all this Russia stuff — simply boiled over into a rage-firing.<\/p>\n

The irony here is that Trump could have handled this so very, very differently. Comey actually screwed up enough stuff that he could have plausibly let Comey go. But the timing — apparently even Steve Bannon suggested holding off on it — and the way it was done made it seem like an emotional act taken in anger — if not fear — than a steady, studied leadership act on behalf of the honor and effectiveness of the FBI. <\/p>\n

Trump's impetuousness, his self-centered willingness to let his pique drive his actions, speaks to itself as to his unsuitability to be the President. And that assumes there's only simple honest<\/i> anger behind it.<\/p>\n

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[1] https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/how-trumps-anger-and-impatience-prompted-him-to-fire-the-fbi-director\/2017\/05\/10\/d9642334-359c-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n‘Enough Was Enough’: How Festering Anger at Comey Ended in His Firing<\/a><\/span>
\nPresident Trump returned from a weekend away determined to act after months of growing frustration with the F.B.I. director, according to people close to the president.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I'm always a little hesitant about "insider" stories that portray High Drama in scenes that can't be confirmed except through anonymous sourcing. But between this and the parallel multi-sourced WaPo story [1], it's pretty clear that Trump's simmering anger against Comey — between failing to follow through on Clinton's email brouhaha with a smoking gun, … Continue reading “The Rage of the President toward a Disloyal Servant”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136116,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/13\/trump-is-his-own-worst-enemy-his-opponents-best-ally.html","url_meta":{"origin":133447,"position":0},"title":"Trump is his own worst enemy, his opponents best ally","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Apr-18 2:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump continues to do more to both publicize and lend credibility to Comey's memoir than any other imaginable factor. 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