Good riddance to Comey who brazenly interfered in the election, but the timing is very suspicious.
Only days earlier, Comey requested significantly more personnel and funds for the investigation into the Trump Administration's ties with Russia according to a NYT report.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/09/james-comey-fbi-fired-donald-trump
Only days earlier, Comey requested significantly more personnel and funds for the investigation into the Trump Administration's ties with Russia according to a NYT report.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/09/james-comey-fbi-fired-donald-trump
Donald Trump has fired James Comey as FBI director in a move that has raised concerns over the independence of the bureau’s investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia in the run-up to last year’s US presidential election. The president cited Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation as the reason behind his decision, but Democrats were quick to cry foul, and there were vociferous demands for a special prosecutor to be appointed to oversee the Russia inquiry. One Senate Democrat described the move as “Nixonian”.
On Tuesday, CNN reported that a grand jury had begun issuing subpoenas to associates of Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser at the centre of the ongoing inquiry into Russian meddling in the election. If confirmed, the report suggests that the FBI’s investigation into the Trump camp’s links with Moscow has entered a significant new phase.
The dismissal of America’s top law enforcement official came days after he testified on Capitol Hill about Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state and the FBI’s investigation into Russian election interference.
Comey incorrectly testified that former Clinton aide Huma Abedin “forwarded hundreds and thousands” of emails to her husband’s laptop, including some with classified information. On Tuesday, the FBI informed the Senate judiciary committee that only “a small number” of the thousands of emails found on the laptop had been forwarded there, while most had simply been backed up from electronic devices.