He wanted to, but it would have appeared as if it were political during an election period.... and hurt the American people's trust in our justice system..
President Trump should have given this decision the same consideration....
his timing is very suspicious....his reason for doing so is suspicious... especially when he PRAISED Director Comey for notifying congress and consequently the public, 11 days out from election day, that he was reopening the Clinton server investigation...Trump called Comey a hero and Courageous.... and now he is supposedly firing him for what Trump and Sessions once praised?
I'm sorry, I call it like it is...and this move of Trump's and Session's, stinks of a cover-up....and the firing was to try to stop the FBI Investigation on the Russian election interference and the Trump and or Trump team involvement and anything criminal, if anything was criminal.
They fired the Head's Head of that FBI investigation and are trying to shut it down.
Could it also be Comey lying about all those thousands of e mails last week?
FBI issues 'supplement' to clarify Comey's incorrect congressional statement - CNNPolitics.com
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I think that was that was not even near the top of the list of reasons of why the President and Sessions said was the reason....
And the reason they gave, that Hillary was treated unfairly by Comey and Comey broke a lot of the Department's protocol just seems so laughable, when they used it during the campaign and they praised Comey for what they say now is "wrong doing" just doesn't pass logical muster....
The only way to know you are correct in your assumption, is if they let the Russian investigation continue and keep themselves out of it, completely and allow an independent prosecutor to head it...
ONLY THEN we we know the TRUTH.....whether this was about Comey treating Hillary unfairly, and unjustly,
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it's about trying to shut down the investigation on the Russians/Putin election interference/ possible trump team criminal actions/collusion etc.