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Josh Marshall
Without the need of an argument or storyline, I want to put together some key facts tied to last night’s events...
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...Five:There have been various press reports about how long Trump had been
planning to fire Comey or considering firing him. But most settle on the importance of one week.
Sometimes it’s about a week, or at least a week, or a week – but one
week comes up in almost every account. What happened one week before
yesterday, May 9th? Notably, exactly 7 days earlier Trump launched what
was then his most recent tweetstorm against Comey. This was the first of
two tweets on May 2nd.
That
tweet was from late on the evening before what proved to be Comey’s
final testimony to Congress as FBI Director. In the event, the headlines
from the May 3rd testimony turned mainly on Comey’s defense of his
oversight of the Clinton probe. But his earlier testimony on March 20th
was the first official confirmation
that the FBI was probing collusion between the Trump campaign and the
Russian government. That must have been emblazoned in Trump’s memory.
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