{"id":133451,"date":"2017-05-11T07:38:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/tweetizen-trump-2017-05-11-why-is-everyone-talking-about-comey-still.html"},"modified":"2017-05-11T07:38:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:38:02","slug":"tweetizen-trump-2017-05-11-why-is-everyone-talking-about-comey-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/tweetizen-trump-2017-05-11-why-is-everyone-talking-about-comey-still.html","title":{"rendered":"Tweetizen Trump – 2017-05-11 "Why is everyone talking about Comey still?!""},"content":{"rendered":"

This one doesn't seem to be going away, Donald. Which is, perhaps, why you<\/i> keep talking about it.<\/p>\n

► Dems have been complaining for months & months about Dir. Comey. Now that he has been fired they PRETEND to be aggrieved. Phony hypocrites!<\/i><\/b> [1P]<\/p>\n

► The Democrats should be ashamed. This is a disgrace! <\/i><\/b>#DrainTheSwamp<\/a><\/i><\/b> .<\/i><\/b> [2P]<\/p>\n

That one comes with a glossy video of various Democratic politicians calling for Comey's ouster — mostly back in October and November.<\/p>\n

Word has it[3] that you were surprised by all of this blowing up quite the way it has. <\/p>\n

'But the fallout seemed to take the White House by surprise. Trump made a round of calls around 5 p.m., asking for support from senators. White House officials believed it would be a “win-win” because Republicans and Democrats alike had had problems with the FBI director, one person briefed on the administration’s deliberations said.<\/i><\/p>\n

Instead, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told him he was making a big mistake — and Trump seemed “taken aback,” according to a person familiar with the call.<\/i><\/p>\n

The idea was that the GOP disliked Comey (for not recommending Clinton for prosecution), the Dems disliked Comey (for his helping hand Trump the election in his October Surprise), and Comey had made enough general goofs, that nobody would shed a tear.<\/p>\n

Surprise!<\/p>\n

Comey, for better and worse, seemed to have been the one guy really focusing on this whole Russia thing — which seems to have been the true the source of what ailed you about the guy.[4] A lot of people remain worried about that thing — either about the actual charges, or the visuals around them. <\/p>\n

The result? Comey was disliked, but was seen as currently<\/i> performing an essential task, investigating the shenanigans that you so clearly don't want investigated (whether out of outraged innocence or some reason less savory). Not just investigating them, but intensifying the investigation.<\/p>\n

And while you and your pretty videos are focused on the Dems, even a number of GOP congresscritters[5] were taken aback by the timing and method here. But you can't attack them, so best to focus your vitriol on the Democrats.<\/p>\n

And let's get this straight, Donald: the Dems are no more "pretending" to be aggrieved than you are. Indeed, the fact that they still dislike and mistrust Comey makes it even more<\/i> frustrating for them that they see him as the best way to get to the bottom of the Russia stuff. But as much as they dislike and mistrust Comey to handle the investigation properly, they are going to dislike and mistrust the successor you hand-pick<\/i> far more.<\/p>\n

Your office's shifting rationale for the firing also aren't helping your case. Claiming it was just a recommendation from Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein because of a long history of Comey's blunders doesn't at all jibe with why you actually praised some of those actions during the campaign, or why you kept him on in January instead of "Draining the Swamp". If there's hypocrisy in the air, Donald, it surrounds you as well.<\/p>\n

Donald, a piece of advice: if you ever knew an unquestionably honest man, whose integrity is recognized across all party lines, now would be the time to put him into place at the head of the FBI.<\/p>\n

—<\/del><\/p>\n

[1] https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/862387734492663808<\/a>
[2] https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/862460991451344896<\/a>
[3] http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/05\/10\/comey-firing-trump-russia-238192<\/a>
[4] 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>, https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/10\/us\/politics\/how-trump-decided-to-fire-james-comey.html<\/a>
[5] http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/09\/politics\/republican-response-comey-fired\/<\/a><\/p>\n

[P] So incredibly important and official that you not only posted it on @RealDonaldTrump, but on the official @POTUS account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n
\n<\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one doesn't seem to be going away, Donald. Which is, perhaps, why you keep talking about it. ► Dems have been complaining for months & months about Dir. Comey. Now that he has been fired they PRETEND to be aggrieved. Phony hypocrites! [1P] ► The Democrats should be ashamed. This is a disgrace! #DrainTheSwamp … Continue reading “Tweetizen Trump – 2017-05-11 "Why is everyone talking about Comey still?!"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133452,"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":[1053],"class_list":["post-133451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-draintheswamp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trump+comey+firing+hypocrisy.PNGimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133438,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/10\/tweetizen-trump-2017-05-10-comey.html","url_meta":{"origin":133451,"position":0},"title":"Tweetizen Trump – 2017-05-10 "Comey!"","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-May-17 12:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Aside from some PR blurbs, Donald, your Twitter feed today is mostly about your firing of FBI Director James Comey last evening, all with the charm and grace we've come to expect from your little Tweets from the Id.\u25ba Cryin' Chuck Schumer stated recently, \"I do not have confidence in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trump%2Bfiring%2Beveryone.PNGimgmax%3D660.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trump%2Bfiring%2Beveryone.PNGimgmax%3D660.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trump%2Bfiring%2Beveryone.PNGimgmax%3D660.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":133594,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/01\/ethics-for-thee-but-nor-for-me-or-him-or-her-or-those-guys-or-them-either.html","url_meta":{"origin":133451,"position":1},"title":"Ethics for thee, but nor for me … or him, or her, or those guys, or them, either","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-Jun-17 11:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Senior White House staff don't have to worry any more about working directly with specific media outlets, or chatting with folk whom they or their previous companies lobbied for, or meeting with lawyers representing the president personally, or working directly with political interest groups, or any of those other pesky\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"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":133451,"position":2},"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. His tweeting and public rhetoric not only ignores the Streisand Effect, but validates every point that Comey makes about his personality. Comey says Trump is untethered from truth; Trump asserts,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trump-across-the-table.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":133117,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/21\/tweetizen-trump-2017-03-21-evil-leaking-leakers-and-wiretaps.html","url_meta":{"origin":133451,"position":3},"title":"Tweetizen Trump – 2017-03-21 "Evil leaking leakers! (And wiretaps!)"","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Mar-17 1:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"(Sorry for delay in getting to you today, Donald -- awfully busy out here in the private sector on a Tuesday morning ...)Well, yesterday was a big day, Donald -- a day for the FBI to tell the world that you and your people are as innocent of collusion with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136152,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/27\/trump-gets-to-ramble-on-fox-friends.html","url_meta":{"origin":133451,"position":4},"title":"Trump gets to ramble on “Fox & Friends”","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Apr-18 12:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Wherein the President of the United States: -- Asserts that his terrific friend Emmanuel Macron has come around to his away of thinking about Iran (which Macron's speech to Congress certainly doesn't support). -- Suggests Iran isn't acting as beligerently toward America any more because otherwise he'll wipe them out.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/trump-on-fox-friends.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":133437,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/09\/trump-plucks-another-thorn-from-his-side.html","url_meta":{"origin":133451,"position":5},"title":"Trump plucks another thorn from his side","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-May-17 7:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"James Comey drew plenty of criticism from all quarters over the last several months, and with good reason, but his abrupt firing today from his job of FBI Director is noteworthy for a few things:1. Comey has been a thorn in Trump's side on repeated occasions. Though arguably his announcements\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}