Donald Trump makes bizarre new remark about firing James Comey
Donald Trump finally seems to have figured out what the rest of us have known all along: if he had immediately fired FBI Director James Comey upon taking office, he’d probably have gotten away with it. Because Trump instead waited until after Comey announced on television that the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia, he’s going to get nailed for felony obstruction of justice. The weird part is that Trump is now insisting he should have fired Comey before the 2016 election.
Here’s what Trump said during an interview today with Hill.TV: “If I did one mistake with Comey, I should have fired him before I got here. I should have fired him the day I won the primaries … I should have fired him right after the convention, say I don’t want that guy. Or at least fired him the first day on the job. I would have been better off firing him or putting out a statement that I don’t want him there when I get there.”
We’re going to give Trump the benefit of the doubt here and assume that, despite his clearly diminishing cognitive abilities, he knows he couldn’t have fired the Director of the FBI before the election. Trump appears to be trying to say that he now wishes he had announced during the election that he would fire James Comey if he won. The question is why Trump has now settled on this notion.
Nearly all political experts agree that, whatever James Comey’s motivation was for sending that letter about Hillary Clinton eleven days before the election, it had the net effect of helping to hand the election to Donald Trump. Even shortly after Trump took office, he literally blew a kiss to Comey from across the room at a reception, signaling that he knew Comey had helped him win. Yet now Trump has so throughly rewritten history in his head, he no longer appears to even recall that he used to feel that way.
