Peter Dreier is a professor of political science at Occidental College in California. He is also an astute observer of contemporary politics.
In this post at Salon, Dreier reviews the “Tuesday afternoon massacre” and compares it to Nixon’s “Saturday night massacre.”
He suspects that Trump will try to appoint a pliable FBI Director who will wind down the investigation of the ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
If Democrats win back control of the House of Representatives in 2018, the House would then open its own in-depth investigation, which might lead to impeachment proceedings.
Or Trump might decide that he really doesn’t like this job and prefers to return to his happy former life.
I heard this morning on CNN that the Senate Intelligence Committee has nine staff members working on the Trump-Russia, as compared to dozens of staff members who worked on the Benghazi hearings (which came up empty), and the more than 100 who worked on the Watergate hearings.
The issue will not fade away.
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So Trump just did what Jarrett, Schumer and Pelosie were planning to have President Hillary do soon after she was elected. Looks like their plan worked out well
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Polly, if the Democrats wanted to fire Comey, they had plenty of opportunity to do so. Trump’s move was dumb, dumb, dumb.
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We will see, won’t we? There is more to follow.
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I would trade president Hillary for this tsunami of right wing extremists any day of the week. We would have much more competent people in the various agencies and departments as opposed to those who presently are dedicated to their destruction. No Rick Perry in the government. No Neil Gorsuch to the SCOTUS. No climate change denial. No effort to dismantle the ACA, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
However, there’s no arguing with the Hillary haters.
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Not really. Comey had already stated twice in public that the HRC investigation was closed. There was no there, there. It would have been in Hillary’s best interest to keep Comey, had she been elected.
Comey is an astute political player- he’s been unscathed by harsh criticism from both political parties. Recall when he stood down against Cheney & Addington & refused to authorize their illegal wiretapping order?
On the other hand there is an open FBI investigation into the Trump team’s involvement in fraud – a stunning abuse of power. People used to go to federal prison for .interfering with federal investigations. No one disputes Trump’s move was dumb & dumber.
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According to cable buzz, Trump and Sessions thought that firing Comey –a Republican appointed by Obama, only four years into a 10-year term–would be greeted with pleasure by Democrats. What he totally lacks is any sense of institutional norms.
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Naaaaa. People are getting way too carried away. Trump’s behind is covered. Nixon’s wasn’t. You aren’t going to successfully impeach Trump. Give it up folks. Give it up. You are not going to win by getting a surrender.
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I sadly agree that Trump and his Repub crooks and cowards will not surrender.
Therefore, it behooves ALL the rest of us to stampede them and bring them down by finding a few decent Repub legislators who have cajones to join with the Dems and start impeachment proceedings against Trump NOW. This, based on the Emoluments Clause which he and his family have broken repeatedly…and now compounded by all their lying to Congress as well, (and in Flynn’s case, charges of treason and indictment, and possibly similar charges for Manafort).
Sessions must be impeached NOW for his lying to Congress as AG. This is the law. Lawrence Tribe and Noah Bookbinder of CREW have filed some of these lawsuits, but there are more to be considered with this latest situation of the Comey firing. And surely there must be an immediate stay order to stop any shredding of existing documents at the FBI and the DoJ.
All the rest of this abysmal group of liars and cheats are subject to all the laws surrounding LYING to Congress. Bill Clinton was impeached on these grounds for not understanding how to use a cigar nor defining what is is, but not for selling out the country to our prime international enemy and putting us all at risk as Trump and his crew seem to have done and are still doing.
Just now the news of insider trading by Carl Icahn has come into play. He seems to have used his clout with the Drumpf to manipulate the stock market to his economic favor…and I wonder which Trumpsters followed along with him for filling their own wallets?
Meanwhile, every serious protester should join one of the many groups of resisters and find the weakest Repub legislators up for re-election in 2018, and work assiduously for their Dem rivals…so we can take back the House and the Senate next year.
Pissing and moaning is worthless…only activism is worthy.
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Are you a fan of President Trump ?.
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Trump will be impeached.
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Maybe he’ll resign. He lives for adoration & compliance.
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This issue certainly should not go away. It’s one of the most important in American history.
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All for the xtian dominionist right to get their man, Pence into the top job. After 40 years they’re almost there. I suspect though that they have overplayed their low straight hand.
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I agree. Your comment will probably end this post. The truth usually does that on this blog.
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Polly,
When it comes to Trump, he commits an outrage against civility and decency every day. The day we stop being upset is the day his bizarre behavior gets normalized. That will not happen here.
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Nah, what ends posts are my Wilson posts*-LOL!
*While I generally get bored quickly, I have managed to be a “marketer” for Wilson’s work because it is the most fundamentally true and accurate condemnation of the standards and testing regime. I post it often so that those who are new to the blog can read and learn, hopefully.
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So far you are correct, Polly!
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