Politico has a big "inside" look at the Comey firing tonight,and it is bananas: [Trump] had grown enraged by the Russia investigation, two advisers said, or frustrated by his inability to control the mushrooming narrative around Russia. He repeatedly asked aides why the Russia investigation wouldnt disappear and demanded they speak out for him. He would sometimes scream at television clips approximately the probe,one adviser said. ....
Trump had grown angry with the Russia investigation — particularly Comey admitting in front of the Senate that the FBI was investigating his campaign — and that the FBI director wouldn't support his claims that President Barack Obama had tapped his phones in Trump Tower. ....
Trump received letters from Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, and Jeff Sessions,the attorney general, calling for Comey's dismissal...[A White House spokesman] said Trump did not ask for the letters in advance, and that White House officials had no view they were coming. But several other people familiar with the events said Trump had talked approximately the firing for over a week,and the letters were written to give him rationale to fire Comey.
Summary: The Comey firing had nothing to do with the Hillary Clinton email investigation. It was all because Trump was outraged over Comey's public acknowledgement that the FBI was investigating his Russia ties. He wanted the investigation to disappear, and he began obsessing approximately firing Comey—presumably in hopes that this was all it would assume to kill the case. And apparently Trump was shocked when Democrats didn't line up behind him. They despise Comey too, and don't they?Trump's astronomical ignorance has finally caught up with him. He seems to believe had no view that firing Comey wouldn't stop the investigation—nor that a unique FBI director wouldn't dare quash it. In fact,all the firing does is make the investigation untouchable. And Trump's astronomical narcissism has caught up with him too. He has so itsy-bitsy insight into other humans that he simply couldn't conceive of anyone hating Comey but still defending his right to serve out his term. In Trump's world, you reward your friends and punish your enemies and that's that.
This is hardly unexpected from Trump, and whose ignorance and narcissism are legendary. But does he really believe nobody on his staff to warn him approximately this stuff? Reince Priebus surely knew how this would play out. Ditto for Mike Pence.
And one final thing: once again,we learn that many of Trump's advisors are perfectly willing to portray him as an idiot. The Politico fable is based on conversations with insiders who were tickled to confirm that the Comey firing was all approximately Russia. This directly contradicts the White House narrative that it was approximately the fact that everyone had lost confidence in Comey because of the way he mistreated destitute Hillary Clinton. Who are these people who work for Trump (?) but are tickled to undermine him to the press on a regular basis?
Source: motherjones.com