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Trump Fires Comey For Doing What Trump Praised Comey For – Video

Jeffrey Toobin, a Senior Legal Analyst, dropped some knowledge on CNN moments after news broke that Donald Trump fired FBI Director, James Comey.

After Trump revealed in a statement that he fired Comey because he “disapproved” of the way the FBI director handled the Clinton investigation last year, Toobin was asked to comment on a video showing the same Donald Trump, praising Comey for the way he handled the Clinton email investigation last year.

In the video, Trump is seen and heard at a campaign ralley in Grand Rapids Michigan, saying that Comey’s decision to re-open the investigation into Hillary’s email server just days before the presidential election, “took gut!” Trump said in the video that Comey “brought back his reputation” with that decision and the video ended with Trump saying that Comey “did the right thing.”

The amused Toobin replied;

“Keep in mind that what then candidate Trump was describing in that speech is now a firing offense in president Trump’s mind. I mean could anyone believe that? It’s just ridiculous. It is now even barely credible that the candidate Trump could be praising Director Comey for something that he is now being fired for.”

Toobin concluded that the FBI director “was not fired for something he did eight months ago.” It should be note that the now former FBI director was leading an investigation against Trump’s campaign and possible collusion with Russia.

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Two Weeks Later, and 7 Black Churches Up in Flames

As I write this ISIS is terrorizing other religious sects in the middle east, destroying religious artifacts of other faiths simply because those faiths are not Islam and also because ISIS is pure evil. And as I right this, there are some in this country being terrorized at their places of worship by America’s own  home bred terrorists, operating under the hateful mantle of racism.

A predominately black church that was once the target of the Klu Klux Klan in Greeleyville, South Carolina was in flames on Tuesday night, making it the seventh to burn in the past week in an increasingly worrisome list of church fires across the South.

The fires, six of which are now under investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, have raised questions of racial targeting in the wake of the Charleston church shooting that left nine black churchgoers dead and sparked a debate over the role of the Confederate flag in public life.

Arson is suspected in relation to at least three of the fires. A federal law enforcement source told the AP that preliminary indications are that the fire at the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greeleyville was not intentionally set and was not arson. However, the fire is still under investigation, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

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Weekly Presidential Address: President Thanks Colorado Firefighters

President Obama toured the devastation in Colorado and delivered his weekly address from the fire-plagued Colorado Springs. Mr. Obama thanked the firefighters for their hard work in trying to bring the fires under control.

Firefighters are working 18 hours a day, around the clock, trying to make sure that they get this blaze under control.  We’ve got volunteers who are out here who are making sure that these firefighters have the food and the water and all the resources that they need.  And we’ve been engaging in some unprecedented coordination between federal, state, and local communities to try to bring this fire under control.

And one of the things I’ve done here, in addition to saying thank you to these firefighters, is to let them know that all of America has their back.  One of the things that happens, whether it’s a fire here in Colorado, or a tornado in Alabama or Missouri, or a flood or a hurricane in Florida, one of the things that happens here in America is when we see our fellow citizens in trouble and having difficulty, we come together as one American family, as one community.  And you see that spirit and you see that strength here in Colorado Springs, where people are working together, promising each other to rebuild.  We’ve got to make sure that we are there with them every step of the way, even after this fire is put out.

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