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Washington, DC was rocked Tuesday evening when news broke that President Donald Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey. According to a memorandum from Deputy Attorney General Rob Rosenstein, Comey was recommended to be fired for going over the head of Attorney General Loretta Lynch on July 5, 2016, and holding a press conference about Hillary Clinton’s e-mail investigation. But according to CNN’s Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin, the FBI director was fired because he was hot on Trump’s trail.
“The FBI is running an investigation of Donald Trump's campaign and Russia and apparently it’s getting too close for comfort,” he angrily yelled. “That the only rational conclusion that you can draw from this firing.”
At the top of the 6 o’clock hour, Toobin told Wolf Blitzer that Comey’s firing was “a grotesque abuse of power” by Trump. And he declared that Trump was acting like a dictator, saying: “This is the kind of thing that goes on in non-democracies. That when there is a investigation that reaches near the president of the united States, or the leader of a non-democracy, they fire the people who are in charge of the investigation.”
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