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 Originally Posted by Poopadoop
There are all kinds of reasons given in that article
No, just two.
Reason 1
, poor handling of Hillary's email investigation, Russia investigation was a witch hunt,
Those are both supporting arguments for Reason #2: Trump lost confidence in Comey. That's a reason that demands supporting arguments. If you perceive those supporting arguments as "conflicting" accounts of events, then you're being stubborn, or stupid. Which is it Poop?
etc., that all changed depending on whether you were talking to Trump, Spicer, Rosenstein, or Sessions, and when.
No it didn't. Everyone except Trump himself towed the line on Reason #1
First it was Rosenstein's idea, then Trump's, then Trump's idea and Rosenstein and Sessions confirmed it. The only way those stories don't conflict is that they're all excuses to fire someone.
Those stories absolutely do not conflict.
Then Trump says in a letter to Comey "I'm doing this on the basis of their recommendation." and three days later tells Lester Holt it was all his idea and he was going to fire him all along.
What's hard to understand? The Rosenstein memo gave Trump the official cover he needed to do what he wanted to do anyway. Trump bragging to Lester holt that he was smart enough to recognize Comey's incompetence without Rosensteins input doesn't conflict with any accounts of events, nor is it indicative of the slightest wrongdoing.
I mean the guy can't even keep his own story straight. No wonder he goes through so many press secretaries. They're all hurting their brain trying to explain all of his contradictory statements.
The do not contradict. Trump and Rosenstein agreeing with each other is not indicative of a conspiracy. You're delusional.
You can argue all of those reasons are true (and on top of it zomgFISA), and they just fucked up in how they presented it, but it doesn't matter.
Apparently it matters very much to you, because it's a pillar of your assessment that Trump is corrupt.
Comey was investigating Trump over Russia and Trump fired him. Can you at least acknowledge how bad that looks, and why it makes people suspicious of all these other explanations for the whys and hows?
It only looks bad if you're willing to entertain wild theories of collusion without evidence. It only looks bad if you believe that Trump is dumb enough to believe that firing Comey would stop the Russia investigation. A guilty Trump firing Comey to stifle the Russia investigation simply doesn't hold water. There's no way Trump is that dumb. There's no way that someone wouldn't have explained it to him even if he was that dumb.
Can you at least acknowledge that if Trump was guilty, he would do everything he could to avoid appearing so? Can you at least acknowledge that if Trump is actually innocent, then he must conclude that Comey's investigation is politically motivated, and therefore Comey can not be trusted? Can you at least acknowledge that in that circumstance, Comey has to go regardless of the optics??
And then add to that the fact he tried to fire Mueller too?
But he ultimately didn't. Trump has done a lot of stuff that looked like political suicide, but somehow worked in his favor. I cringed when he claimed he wanted to ban all muslim immigration. Hard to not call that racist. But when taken in complete context, you could see that he wasn't expressing his views, he was merely opening negotiations.
Trump cited some legitimate, and some not so legitimate conflicts that Meuller might have. The most compelling is that Meuller was denied the FBI job after Comey was fired. That's not just being turned down for a job. That's a man being denied the opportunity to reach the pinnacle of his life's work. It's not unfathomable that he might have an axe to grind.
Sure, it would have looked bad. But Trump has recovered easily from worse. So it's not nearly as stupid as you're making it sound. He says incendiary things and the media hates him. Despite that he won an election and logged a very successful first year. The guy has shown to be practically invincible. If he really didn't trust Mueller to not go witch-hunting, why wouldn't Trump think he could replace him.
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