Now-Unemployed FBI Director James Comey was speaking to an office full of FBI personnel today when he heard that he'd been fired by President Trump. I thought Trump only fired people in a boardroom and told them to their faces.
Everyone's speculating why. Was it because Comey was incompetent? That doesn't seem to be much of a disqualifier in this administration. Was it because his investigations were getting closer to linking Trump to wrongdoing? That's what a lot of folks are saying; that Trump wanted a puppet in there who would clear him and maybe use the FBI against his political enemies. If he now appoints Chris Christie or Rudy Giuliani to the post, that will seem to confirm that theory. Right now, I don't know and neither do all the folks out on the 'net trying to guess what's up.
A lot of them are recalling the infamous Saturday Night Massacre of Watergate. Here, Ed Kilgore discusses that concept. And here's a nice primer on Watergate for those who are either too young to remember or did too many drugs back then to even be aware of it.