In an action causing Congressional cries of "Treason!" and "Impeach!" President Hillary Clinton today fired FBI Director James Comey. Press Secretary Brian Fallon confirmed the dismissal, stating that the President was following the recommendation of Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Comey's official firing offense was identified as his October 2016 reveal to Congress that then candidate Clinton was back under investigation for her private email server practice. Since then, President Clinton had embraced Comey as a member of her national security team and had claimed to be happy with his performance. Until now.
Sources insist that the firing stems from Comey's role in directing new investigations about Russia and its possible collusion with Clinton campaign and administrative officials. Just a day before his dismissal, Comey had requested more money and agents be dedicated towards this investigation.
"Let's keep this simple," said a former senior intelligence officer. "A hostile country assisted a presidential campaign in winning the White House. It hacked our system. It flooded our social media with anti-Trump disinformation and pro-Clinton advocacy. It stole embarrassing information from the Republican National Committee and released it to the press. It tapped into state voting records. There may be evidence of widespread financial quid pro quo between Russian and Clinton campaign individuals. What has happened to our country has been a secretive act of war, aided and abetted by the Clinton Administration, colluding with our enemy. At the very least, these are a series of damning capital crimes."
Clinton, who won the Presidency through the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote by 3 million votes, has been embroiled in controversy since her Inauguration. She has refused to release her taxes, despite suggestions she and her family have benefited financially from Clinton Foundation donors and foreign investments, including those from Russia. She has no Blind Trust, therefore she continues to accrue profits from Clinton-oriented enterprises.
Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and her daughter Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky, act as Special Advisors and have emerged as her primary counselors, despite possible conflicts of interest. Chelsea's husband recently came under fire for selling $500,000 per share allotments of his Mezvinsky hedge fund to Chinese investors seeking influence in the Clinton government.
President Clinton's former National Security Advisor, Thomas Pickering, resigned after revelations that he was a foreign agent for Turkey and had numerous unreported meetings with Russian government officials; he had been paid $37,000 for attending a dinner in Moscow celebrating RT, a propaganda outlet.
Clinton has cloaked the once-public White House Visitors Log, keeping secret any visits from corporate executives, lobbyists and foreign agents. The Clinton White House has also introduced a set of weakened ethics rules for lobbyists becoming staff and has issued secret waivers that allow what the ethics rules do not.
However, these and many other troubling aspects to the young Clinton Presidency pale in comparison to the firestorm that has erupted following the abrupt departure of James Comey. In a tweet made last night, defeated Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declared:
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have both weighed in on the controversy, declaring it "worthy of a Special Prosecutor". "Any candidate nominated by President Clinton to replace Mr. Comey is going to be tainted. We need an independent look at what is really happening here, free of all politics. Let Justice be served," said Mr. McConnell.
In reaction to the onslaught of negative press and plummeting poll numbers, President Clinton indicates that she will continue with her conflicting, confrontational, irrational, thin-skinned and unorthodox governing style:
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