It's unsure who Trump is referring to in his latest tweet. Is he inferring that Robert Mueller, the special counsel assigned to the Russia investigation by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, that the Washington Post reported it's sources have stated the special counsel is investigating Trump for possible obstruction of justice. Did Robert Mueller advise President Trump to fire Comey and if so under what circumstances or for what reasons would Robert Mueller have advised Trump to fire Comey? It's doubtful that Mueller would advise Trump to fire Comey to suppress the Russian investigation. Or is Trump referring to the memo by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that was critical of FBI Director James Comey over the Clinton email investigation? That memo, while being highly critical of Comey's public announcements related to the conclusions of the FBI that Hillary Clinton had not violated the law, did not directly recommend that Trump fire Comey. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/rosenstein-letter-annotated/526116/ In that memo Rosenstein notes that Comey's public statements about the FBI not finding any criminal wrongdoing was extraordinary for several reasons but in it he also makes some blatant errors. He implies that Comey did not have the authority to release the information that normally is released by the DOJ, citing numerous former Attorney Generals, but he didn't mention AG Loretta Lynch that had not recused herself from the Clinton email investigation and that had publically stated she, as the Attorney General, was going to accept the FBI investigation's conclusion. Only AG Lynch's opinion mattered because, as Attorney General, Lynch had sole authority to authorize Comey to make the public statements about the conclusions of the FBI. Glazing by omission is the fact that Rosenstein's memo doesn't address whether Lynch authorized Comey's public statements. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/us/politics/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-email-server.html?_r=0 Rosenstein also condemns Comey in that memo for his singling out Hillary Clinton for criticism by "carelessly" handling classified information and that is actually a legitimate concern. Clinton wasn't handling classified material any differently than the other members of the State Department during her tenure or by the prior administration when Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell had been the Sect. of State. The problem at the State Department wasn't the people that were "carelessly" handling classified material but instead it was the State Department's security organization that didn't have adequate safeguards to protect classified material. Rosenstein cites the previous dissatisfaction by Democrats with Comey's handling of the Clinton email investigation but that dissatisfaction was based upon a belief that Comey was acting in a partisan manner. That prior dissatisfaction based upon possible partisanship by Comey no longer existed once Comey began the Russian investigation where Republicans were now under scrutiny by the FBI. Rosenstein cites partisan opinion where a lack of trust existed in FBI Director Comey's ability to conduct the investigation into the Russian interventionism in American politics, as national security threat of the highest order, but no one involved in criminal investigations including the supervisory management at the FBI had any doubts about Comey's competency in conducting the investigation. The problem for Trump is that he's constantly opposed the investigation and has impeded the investigation as opposed to supporting it since day one. Instead of taking the position of "We've got nothing to hide" and providing every bit of information and documentation that's requested the Trump administration has been stonewalling the investigation and Trump has repeatedly condemned it. The investigation is into the threat of the national security of the United States by Russia where the Russian intervention in the 2016 Presidential election is just a part. It's not exclusively about direct "collusion" between Trump's staff and/or Trump related to the 2016 Presidential election. Russia has demonstrated the exceptional ability of exploiting any connections it has with Americans in positions of knowledge and power without the Americans even being aware of it. Financial obligations of American to Russians, for example, can be exploited to secure information by the Russians that Russia uses against us. Trump keeps hanging is arguments on the lack of evidence that would be acceptable in a court of law to prove collusion while ignoring the fact that the US investigation into the Russian involvement has substantial circumstantial evidence, not admissible in a court of law, of possible collusion that's driving the investigation into trying to find admissible evidence. Just because admissible evidence has not been found, and may never be found, does not imply that collusion did not occur. We also know that the White House has provided false and misleading information when it comes to contacts between Trump staff members and the Russians and even Trump's statements about his own connections with Russians seem to be contradicted by the facts. Trump claimed no business dealings with the Russians but in 2006 Donald Trump Jr had stated there was considerable financial support for Trump by the Russians. Some evidence suggests the financial support was from Russian organized crime that's closely associated with the control of Vladimir Putin. Of course the investigation into Donald Trump's possible abuse of power to obstruct justice is not based solely upon the firing of Comey. It's also based upon his attempts to have other intelligence chief's publically intervene to suppress the FBI investigation, Trump's inappropriate "one-on-one" meetings with Comey that violated protocol (the FBI doesn't work for the White House, it works for the DOJ) where a member of the DOJ should have always been present to protect the political independence of the FBI. It is also based upon the numerous statements made by President Trump that reflect a desire to shut down the investigation into members and former members of his staff. Trump's problems cannot be blamed on Comey, Mueller, Rosenstein, Democrats, fake news, or a "witch hunt" because Trump's problems are solely because of Donald Trump and Donald Trump's actions.
This man is such an embarrassment, Trump must be nervous as hell, up all night tweeting, snorting coke perhaps, maybe he knows the countdown has begun on his "apprentice", but only now someone else gets to say you're fired!
It might be more complex than some seem to realize. Trump has always managed to keep his affairs very private because he owned all of Trump enterprises and never had to disclose virtually anything about his business dealings. Arguably the fact he withheld his tax records was to maintain the secrecy of many of his dealings. Trump doesn't want anyone prying into his affairs because of what they might find regardless of whether what they might find is criminal or simply unethical or improper. It's clearly obvious that Trump is trying to hide something from the public and he's never been in this position where his personal affairs have now become "public" affairs because of his position as President. I don't believe he thought of this before running for president but we have seen him complain about his loss of freedom in becoming President. He's been fighting the Russia investigation since day one regardless of what he might have said that he supports it. His actions don't support it. While this may mean nothing it certainly raises the question of whether he opposes it because he's hiding something. There would be no logical reason to fight the investigation, creating all of the political problems he has for himself, if he had nothing to hide.
