Sacked FBI director James Comey was reportedly in Los Angeles when he got wind of his dismissal. And at first he was in disbelief, thinking it was a media prank. But his staff drove it into his head that he had been really sacked by President Donald Trump.
Trump based his action on the recommendations of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who wrote formal memo saying they had no confidence in Comey.
Meanwhile, President Trump took to Twitter early today to mock US Democrats Senate minority leader, Senator Chuck Schumer over Comey’s surprise sack.
Schumer had criticised the sacking as ill-timed as Comey and the FBI were investigating Russian links with Trump’s aides and President Trump himself.
‘Why did it happen today? We know the FBI had been looking into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians – a very serious offense. Were these investigations getting too close to home for the president?’ Schumer said in a press briefing.
Schumer also claimed that he told the President that firing Comey was ‘a very bad idea’.
However in a response on Twitter, Trump mocked Schumer, ‘crying Schumer’.
He said Schumer didn’t always have that kind of support for Comey.
‘I do not have confidence in him any longer,’ Trump quoted Schumer to have said in early November in reference to Comey’s 11th hour decision to look into Clinton’s improper private email server, which he said was ‘appalling.’
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