Comey's deputy became acting director through the normal line of succession, but Sessions is considering others to fill in until President Trump nominates a successor.
An acting FBI director is already in place, but the president is seeking to appoint an interim director. The attorney general is conducting interviews for…
That Donald J. Trump believed he could fire the person leading the Russia investigation without a meaningful response from another branch of government is a sign of his unfamiliarity with the separation of powers.
The anger behind Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday had been building for months, but a turning point came when Comey refused to preview for top Trump aides his planned testimony to a Senate panel, White House officials said.
Donald Trump Seeks to Mute Outcry from Firing of James Comey A1
President Trump weighed in publicly for the first time on his firing of FBI Director James Comey while top Senate Democrats questioned the timing of the ouster of the man who was investigating Trump campaign aides’ ties to Russia.
WSJ Opinion: President Trump fired James Comey late Tuesday, and better now than never. The FBI Director has committed more than enough mistakes in the last year to be dismissed for cause.
Comey’s Deserved Dismissal
The FBI chief forfeited his credibility with his 2016 interventions.
President Trump abruptly terminated Mr. Comey, who was leading an investigation into whether Mr. Trump's advisers colluded with Russia to influence the election.
Not since Watergate has a president dismissed the person leading an investigation bearing on him, and the dismissal drew instant comparisons to the Saturday Night Massacre.
Researchers found that nearly a third of drugs approved from 2001 through 2010 had major safety issues years after they were widely available to patients.
Kudos to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who today said he intends to examine Trump's business ties for any connections between Russia and the Trump campaign or Trump’s associates. Graham also said it would be helpful to see Trump's tax records, although it was too early to say whether he would be willing to subpoena them.
At yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Graham asked former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper whether he had concerns about Russian ties to Trump's business interests. Clapper said he could not comment because the issue could be a subject of an ongoing investigation. (Clapper did not say, as Trump claims he did, that there were no such ties.)
Lindsey Graham deserves kudos. If he follows through, he deserves our abiding appreciation.
One of them is President Trump. He's already set up a reelection committee -- perhaps earlier than anyone in history -- and his campaign released the first ad of the 2020 cycle.
Oh, and one person creating some special buzz although he's not filed? Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
Trump’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, today promised to “take the appropriate action” following a “comprehensive investigation” of Stephen Colbert’s satirical putdown of Trump late Monday night, when Colbert said “The only thing your mouth is good at is being [Russian President] Vladimir Putin’s c—k holster.”
Late-night satirical putdowns of presidents are a staple of American life, even when tasteless or edgy. No off-color joke by a late-night comedian has ever been investigated by the FCC before now, and no FCC chairman has ever threatened “appropriate action” against one.
But Trump is thin-skinned and vindictive. He especially hates being laughed at. He’s already blasted Saturday Night Live for satirizing him. Trump’s FCC chairman seems eager to do Trump's bidding.
Trump is even threatening to widen libel laws so he can sue the media for criticizing him.
Stephen Colbert can take care of himself. I worry about other comics and Trump critics who may now pull their punches. That’s what this is really all about.
