THAT'S GRATITUDE FOR YOU

So President Donald (The Bully) Trump has fired the FBI Director James Comey allegedly for how he treated Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.  That's a laugh, make that a double laugh.  First of all Donald (The Bully) Trump praised Comey multiple times on how he managed the Clinton e-mail affair and, second, Comey's behavior over the matter is why Trump became President. That's gratitude for you.

I slept better last night knowing that Sec. Mattis  was head of our armed forces and Trump's National Security officer Lt. Gen. McMaster was to be informed if the "Red Button" was pushed to initiate a nuclear war.  Incidentally there are those who are out to get Lt.  Gen. McMaster also.*

Of course no one (make that only a few) are fooled by the firing as Comey and the FBI is getting uncomfortably close to the real reasons behind Donald (The Bully) Trump's dealings with the Russians.

But actually, it was the FBI organization getting uncomfortably close and not just the Director.  Lindsay Graham assures us that the FBI investigation will continue (but will the Justice Depart. act on their findings?).  The investigation is not on The Bully but does hit more than one of his associates, and this might lead to Trump.  So The Bully is getting nervous.

What good is a 10 yr term, if the President can fire him at any time?  So any time the FBI Director does anything that disagrees with the President, the job of the FBI Director is in jeopardy.

Note May 11, 2017: Two reasons for the firing of Comey are bandied about.  One is that Comey said it gave him mild nausea to think he might have influenced the election, and two that he went to the Justice Dept and asked for more resources to concentrate on the Russian probe and participation by the Trump campaign.  If Trump thought this would squash the Russian collusion probe, he is sadly mistaken.  Now Trump says he fired Comey because he is a showboat and grandstander!  Comey was getting too much attention and getting more famous than the president.  I can understand Trump couldn't tolerate that.

Notes added May 14: Now there are claims that Comey never asked for more resources to pursue the Russian "affair" (my italics):

But a Justice Department spokesman denied that Comey had made the request.“Totally false,” said Ian Prior. 
Comey “never made the request for more resources and money for the Russia investigations.”**

Now it is suspected by counter-terrorism expert Malcolm Nance*** on a news program this morning that Rosenstein may not have even written the memo.  Diane Feinstein said:
Given Rosenstein’s legal expertise and 27-year Justice Department career, I would have expected him to produce a detailed and comprehensive rationale for Director Comey’s firing including input from the agents and staff who worked with Director Comey.
 But instead of a document that provides meaningful analysis, the memo reads like political document. It includes quotes from op-eds and television appearances that are as old as six months. It doesn’t include any contemporary insights from inside the FBI. The memo appears to have been hastily assembled to justify a preordained outcome.****

* http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/09/the-knives-are-out-for-hr-mcmaster-trump-bannon-nsc/
** http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-comey-asked-for-more-resources-for-1494434774-htmlstory.html
*** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Nance
**** http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-feinstein-rosenstein-s-memo-reads-like-1494511819-htmlstory.html