The tool of a tyrant
Revenge is a dish best served cold, yeah?
Maurene Comey, a career federal prosecutor who worked on the Jeffrey Epstein case and was abruptly fired by the Trump administration this week, warned her colleagues Thursday about the chilling effect such firings could have on their work.
“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain,” she wrote in an email that was circulated to her colleagues within the federal prosecutor’s office in Manhattan. “Do not let that happen.”
She called fear “the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.”
Ms. Comey, who is the daughter of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director and an adversary of President Trump, was also the lead prosecutor in the recent trial of Sean Combs, the hip-hop entrepreneur who was acquitted of the most serious charges he faced earlier this month.
Comey wasn’t an adversary of Trump: it was the other way around. Trump was an adversary of Comey, because Trump is a crook and Comey knows it.
From memory, there is a beautiful cartoon of former president Richard Nixon hanging onto a tuft of grass to stop himself falling off a cliff and frantically drawing lines between himself and approaching justice (Earl Warren was it?) and yelling “Not a step closer.!”
To avoid however long a stretch in the slammer, Trump has to become like ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier of Haiti, and be proclaimed President for Life. It is fascinating to watch this melodrama as it plays out.
Omar
Trump’s *Life* won’t be much longer. I reckon we need to worry about the unit who is next in line.
Also, Comey forced himself into the role of an anti-Trumper, because he didn’t want to be saddled with the blame for his first election, which he helped engineer. (I still think that his “We’re still investigating Hillary” announcement was essentially an over-shoot on his part; he wanted a weak President Clinton, not the gallumphing buffalo that he got. He overestimated the intelligence of the American voters, and as a result, we’re all screwed.)