Trump says "You're fired!" to FBI head
(in Poland known for hints on Polish complot in Holocaust)
President Donald Trump has fired James Comey, who became only second FBI head to be dismissed after William Sessions was let go by Bill Clinton in July 1993. Andrew G. McCabe is now FBI's acting director.
FBI ex-top dog James Comey, who has just heard "you're fired" (see: NOTE) from none other than Donald Trump, caught headlines in Poland when in April 2015 in his article for Washington Post he attributed complicity for Holocaust to Poland, in one breath enumerating it along with Germany and Hungary. He wrote as follows:
"In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil".
President Donald Trump wrote in a letter to Comey on late Tuesday as follows:
"I have received the attached letters from the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General of the United States recommending your dismissal as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (...) I have accepted their recommendation and you are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately. While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau", the president went on, adding it was essential U.S. found new leadership for the FBI that would restore "public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission. I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors", wrote the American president.
It has been suggested Trump's decision came in the wake of Comey's failure to effectively handle Hillary Clinton's email scandal. Certainly more to come...
NOTE: In April 2004 news broke out that Donald Trump's lawyers filed motion to trademark the phrase "You're fired" (that became his catchphrase in "The Apprentice" hit reality show - PAP) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. The latter's attorneys rejected Trumps attempts to copyright the pharse in August the same year. (PAP)
