Colbert audience cheers Comey firing report lol

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I think it's possible to defend him and support his firing

May 10, 2017, 5:22 PM

Basically, this:

"Comey’s firing, by itself, is not the problem. There’s a lot of ridiculous hyperbole out there about this being a “coup” or a “constitutional crisis,” which is nonsense; presidents have the absolute legal authority to fire the head of the FBI for any reason, and Comey by this point had earned the firing. My view of Comey hasn’t really changed over the ups and downs of the past year: I continue to think he’s basically a straight-shooting lawman who has tried to do his best in a series of impossible situations (exacerbated by the kinda-sorta-half recusal of Attorney General Loretta Lynch from the Hillary email investigation and now the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions from the Russia probe), and he appears mostly to be respected inside the FBI.

But Comey’s judgment has clearly been impaired by a combination of a lack of moral courage and undue solicitude for the institutional interests of the FBI. He accumulated enemies on both sides of the aisle with his handling of the Clinton hot potato; one hardly need look far for examples of Democrats calling for his firing until the instant he was actually fired (as Ben Domenech notes, Stephen Colbert’s audience erupted in thunderous applause at the news of Comey’s firing until they were told that this was no longer an acceptable opinion). Comey’s position became completely untenable after the story broke this week that he had misled Congress last week about the volume of classified emails forwarded by Huma Abedin to her husband, Anthony Weiner (Comey testified that hundreds or thousands had been forwarded, when in fact only a small number were, and the rest were just backed up on his laptop). Just yesterday, Comey had to fess up to this in writing to the Senate committee he had testified to. At that point, after everything else that had erupted around Comey, his days had to be numbered, and Trump seized the opportunity to fire him. In and of itself, this was the right decision, even though it seems unlikely that the latest shoe dropping on the email controversy was a major driver in why Trump wanted Comey out.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/447497/republicans-should-want-truth-about-russia-and-2016-public