{"id":1074,"date":"2017-05-10T13:36:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T17:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2017-05-11T18:45:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T22:45:41","slug":"what-does-the-comey-firing-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/10\/what-does-the-comey-firing-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does the Comey Firing Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you look at the various news aggregation sites, you\u2019ll find any number of articles that explain how Trump\u2019s firing of Comey will either:<\/p>\n

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  1. Cause the end of democracy in America, or<\/li>\n
  2. Trigger Trump\u2019s impeachment and guillotining<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So, where does this leave us normal people? Well, as I usually exclaim in my magisterial fashion, \u201cDamned if I know.\u201d\u00a0 Does Comey and Obama\u2019s people have some kind of deep game that they are trying to play that will hobble or destroy Trump and his administration?\u00a0 Maybe?\u00a0 Is Trump counterattacking with the full force of the executive branch\u2019s formidable resources?\u00a0 Could be?\u00a0 Or is this just Trump clearing the decks to get his own guys in there to move on to new business? \u00a0Sure, why not?<\/p>\n

    For even a staunch supporter of the \u201cTroller-in-Chief\u201d, such as myself, it sometimes seems like this administration punishes its supporters as much as its enemies. Honestly, on a daily basis I reach the giddy heights of schadenfreude with the release of the latest Hillary rant, followed by a plunge into the stygian depths of terror when a sophomoric presidential tweet erupts onto the media scene.\u00a0 It\u2019s exhausting.<\/p>\n

    But I\u2019m in this thing for the long haul and Trump\u2019s is the star that I\u2019ve hitched my wagon to. I\u2019m gonna give him as much slack as I have and let him get it done.\u00a0 Firing Comey seems like exactly the opposite play from a JEB! or Romney move.\u00a0 This tells me it\u2019s probably smart (or at least brave).\u00a0 Some people are saying that Trump\u2019s motive is to get a team into the FBI to start pursuing Hillary and\/or the leakers from Obama\u2019s people.\u00a0 These sound like high risk moves.\u00a0 And that makes me think high risk\/high reward. \u00a0It\u2019s entirely possible we have someone with guts in the White House.\u00a0 Good.<\/p>\n

    It should be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few days. Right now Schumer is calling for a special prosecutor.\u00a0 Blumenthal is accusing the administration of treason.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing if the democrats weren\u2019t all atheists there would be charges of heresy.\u00a0 What would be indicative of Trump effectiveness would be if the administration can start getting ahead of the democrats in the news cycle and produce indictments of someone on the other side.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to see some democrat operative testifying under immunity and naming names.\u00a0 Can you just imagine the howls of pain if some of the actual villains were unmasked and the sausage making that went on in the White House last year came to light?\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 Maybe even Saint Barack might appear with his halo slipping down a little if enough prosecutorial pressure was applied to the right Obama flunky.\u00a0 Admittedly that\u2019s just my dream version of how the post-Obama landscape could play out.\u00a0 More likely it would just tend to silence the press if they thought that pursuing the leaks would go away if they gave Trump some good press.\u00a0 So let\u2019s see who\u2019s winning and who\u2019s losing.\u00a0 We should know soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you look at the various news aggregation sites, you\u2019ll find any number of articles that explain how Trump\u2019s firing of Comey will either: Cause<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[26,184,16],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-trump","tag-american-exceptionalism","tag-comey","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Does the Comey Firing Mean? - Orion's Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/10\/what-does-the-comey-firing-mean\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Does the Comey Firing Mean? 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