wilwheaton:

micdotcom:

Did Jeff Sessions violate a rule by participating in James Comey’s firing?

• Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for urging President Donald Trump to fire FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday, calling his participation a violation of his promise to recuse himself from the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
  
• Sessions — who apparently recommended Comey’s termination in a letter to Trump — said in March that he would recuse himself from investigations into Trump’s Russia ties after it was revealed he’d twice met with a Russian ambassador before Trump took office and denied the meetings during his attorney general confirmation hearing.
  
• That means he vowed not to have any role in the investigations. For Franken and others, that suggests he should have been precluded from participating in firing Comey, who had reportedly requested a “significant increase” in resources for the bureau’s investigation into the election interference days before he was sacked. Read more (5/10/17)
  

It won’t happen, but Sessions should be forced to resign.

bylillian:

CALL.

This is Nixon-level impeachment BS.

micdotcom:

micdotcom:

micdotcom:

In tone-deaf tweet, Trump says everyone “will be thanking” him for firing Comey

• Amid a firestorm of speculation that he fired FBI Director James Comey in order to stymie an investigation into his campaign’s possible ties to Russia, President Donald Trump let off a tone-deaf series of tweets about Democrats Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, ultimately saying the country “will be thanking” him for letting Comey go.
  
• Trump began his Twitter tirade on Tuesday night, slamming Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for being upset over Comey’s firing despite the fact that Schumer has said he had no confidence in Comey’s leadership. Read more (5/10/17 9 AM)
  

Comey reportedly thought he was being pranked when he first learned he was fired

• Former FBI Director James Comey reportedly thought he was being pranked when he first saw news of his own firing, (New York Times)
  
• Comey was speaking to FBI employees in Los Angeles on Tuesday, the Times reported, when news that he had been fired came up on the screen of a television that was playing in the background. 
  
• According to the Times, Comey saw it and “laughed, saying he thought it was a fairly funny prank.”
  
• That’s when “his staff started scurrying around in the background and told Mr. Comey that he should step into a nearby office.“ 
  
• At the time that Comey emerged and confirmed that he had been fired, he still had not heard directly from the White House, the Times reported. Read more (5/10/17 9 AM)

Sean Spicer reportedly hid in the White House bushes after the firing of James Comey

• According to the Washington Post, White House press secretary Sean Spicer disappeared and hid behind a “tall hedge” after a brief interview with Fox Business on Tuesday night following the firing of FBI director James Comey — apparently in an effort to avoid a field of reporters hungry for answers.
  
• Spicer first divulged news of Comey’s firing at around 5:40 p.m. by shouting it to nearby reporters outside his office, according to the Post.
  
• After Spicer spent a few minutes in the shadows, Janet Montesi, an executive assistant in the White House press office, told reporters at the scene that Spicer would answer questions, but not on camera. Spicer then came out from the bushes. Read more (5/10/17)
  

Comey reportedly asked for more money for the Trump-Russia investigation days before firing

• Former FBI Director James Comey asked for a “significant increase” in resources for his bureau’s investigation into Russia’s meddling in the U.S. election, days before President Donald Trump unceremoniously fired Comey Tuesday evening, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
  
• According to the Times’ report, Comey made the request last week in a meeting with deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, whose letter Trump used to justify Comey’s ouster.
  
• The Department of Justice denied the report. Read more (5/10/17 12:30 PM)

mediamattersforamerica:

Right-wing media and Republican politicians have tried their hardest to smear Sally Yates after she refused to defend Trump’s Muslim ban. She’s not having it.

liberaleffects:

‘Justice’ In Trump’s America

wilwheaton:

From my friend, a woman, who lives in a red state.

resistdrumpf:

I’m tired – gotta keep going though.