[tannhauser23]

To be clear, Sessions said he concurred in the recommendation of his deputy Rothstein, who is a life-long prosecutor. Plus, virtually every former Attorney General agreed that Comey made a terrible mistake in announcing the results of the Clinton investigation.

[res0nat0r]

Firing him around January would have had some creedence, not now months later after praising him for months and Trump finding out that Comey has been investigating him and his campaign for almost a year now.

[maxerickson]

Rod Rosenstein became Deputy Attorney General on April 26th.

Having him write the memo recommending the action isn't really all that strange and goes quite a ways towards explaining the timing.

People would have complained that it was about the investigation anyway in January.

[res0nat0r]

No one knew of the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign, even former DNI Clapper, until Comey testified as such on March 20th. Trump firing him any time after this date reeks of a coverup no matter the explanation.

[tannhauser23]

That's when Comey publicly confirmed it, but news about the investigation has been leaking since the moment Trump was elected.

[ak4g]

That's just not true. The first credible reporting on the existence of the investigation came from CNN, 10 days prior to Comey's testimony in March.

[rascul]

CNN is credible for anything relating to Trump? What was the actual source?

[Tloewald]

Yes, indeed I think the supreme irony is that Comey is, in effect, being fired by Trump for helping Trump get elected.

[mattnewton]

That is the reason they are putting on the books at least. The fact that he is leading an open investigation into Trumps campaign, and that Trump can replace the head of that investigation with another person now is interesting though.

[hn_throwaway_99]

News is now coming out that Rothstein threatened to resign when the White House was saying that Rothstein was the one who originally wanted to fire Comey. Rothstein wrote the letter, but Trump was the one who asked him to write it.

This is impeachment level shit.

[eneveu]

For other ESL speakers wondering why they didn't find much when searching for "rothstein": his name is "Rod Rosenstein".