Timing of Comey's firing was set by Congressional opposition to Rosenstein ( pizzagate )

submitted by SoberSecondThought

In retrospect, the firing of James Comey as FBI Director happened about as fast as it was physically possible to make it go. Here's the sequence:

  1. Congress did their best to delay appointment of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. He was sworn in on Feb 9th, roughly three weeks after inauguration. Two weeks would have been typical.

  2. Sessions proposed Rod Rosenstein for Deputy Attorney General. Given the highly politicized circumstances, neither Sessions nor Trump could move against Comey directly. They had to have a nonpolitical appointee evaluate Comey's conduct. Rosenstein has an excellent reputation, and would eventually be confirmed 94-6 by the Senate. But as far back as Mar 6th, Senator Blumenthal was vowing to hold up Rosenstein's confirmation , demanding that Sessions appoint a special prosecutor on the Russia file.

  3. Rosenstein was finally confirmed on Apr 25th, a Tuesday. That's after SEVEN weeks of grandstanding and obstruction by Congress. Within two weeks he had taken over the job, reviewed Comey's conduct (including interviewing several former high-ranking Justice officials), and submitted a recommendation that Comey be fired.

  4. Sessions endorsed and passed the recommendation to Trump, and Trump acted on it the same day.

This is lightning speed by Washington standards, and it was the only legitimate way that it could be done. For either Sessions or Trump to do it themselves would have cast a permanent shadow over the whole process.

If you look at this in context, it was competent, professional, and above-board. I expect further delays and grandstanding when Rosenstein recommends the new Director, and more Russia nonsense, and more tweets by John Podesta, but justice is coming for these freaks and it is coming very fast (again, by Washington standards).

eucalyptus_spearmint

@SoberSecondThought : consider yourself upvoated, guv'nah.

BerksResident

hurray! Posts on Voat are getting good again, for a while it was so much re-hashed stuff. I was thinking about the same about the pool party - what a coincidence. Really well laid out, thanks and upvote, upvote!

Whattheheck321

Thanks for this breakdown.

Pizzalawyer

Well, we knew we were being watched, now we at least know the identity of one of the watchers

SoberSecondThought

Actually, now that I've had some time to ponder, I think the shills may have blown this one. You keep up this shoddy work and you're going to get suicided, guys!

This story has been out in the news for 9-10 hours, and yet there was no separate mocking shill thread about it until five minutes after I posted my explanation for the timing. Why? What was so threatening about what I said? There were a dozen threads about the Comey firing, hundreds of comments, stuff about Assange, stuff about McCain, just a whole lot of trigger words, but once I posted, they swung into action.

Well, here's something. Could be coincidence, but I'm thinking it's not. In the Wikileaks dump of Podesta's emails do you remember the notorious pool party email from "Bonnie," with the three girls aged 11, 9, and almost 7? Of course you do!

Turns out, that among the addressees was Laurie Rubiner , a staffer working for CT Senator Richard Blumenthal. Rubiner is Blumenthal's chief of staff . Before she became chief of staff to Blumenthal in 2010, she was a senior exec at Planned Parenthood. And before that, she was legislative director to then-Senator Hillary Clinton.

So our secret word of the day is "Blumenthal"! He seems to be a current favorite of the Podestas. In 2016 they gave him $7,400, which puts him seventh after Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris, and three others. Since they give money to nearly half of Congress, this is significant.

Voaters have already had a look at Connecticut, which has high levels of child sex trafficking . I think a closer look at the Senator, his chief of staff, and his state are all warranted.

How about it, shills? Am I getting warm?

GeorgeT

Sherlock Holmes standard! Awesome!

DerivaUK

This needs a thread of its own.

2impendingdoom

Dont' forget that the CT Bemer trafficking (mentally ill men and at least one 15 yea old boy) ring was just busted too, there were a number of about it threads here.
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1828296 https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1780820 https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1813421

Vindicator

Turns out, that among the addressees was Laurie Rubiner, a staffer working for CT Senator Richard Blumenthal. Rubiner is Blumenthal's chief of staff. Before she became chief of staff to Blumenthal in 2010, she was a senior exec at Planned Parenthood. And before that, she was legislative director to then-Senator Hillary Clinton.

@SoberSecondThought , you should make this a separate post to draw attention to it. This certainly deserves it!

Vindicator

Make sure you provide the link to the actual Wikileak Podesta email. Articles that fail to provide links to the original sources are immediately suspect, especially when that source is Wikileaks. To easy to be Fake News when you can't verify.

crystalclear

Well done and right on the money. Also this I think was part of Rosenstein's investigation = http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015b-b1a4-de92-a17b-bdf42e570000 more documentation of Comey's farcical "investigation"

TimesUp

Thanks for insights -- many of us are baffled by Trump's timing, and your theory makes sense.