I first heard about James Comey during the Bush years. At that time he was Acting Attorney General when the current one, John Ashcroft, was undergoing surgery. Comey did not agree with certain parts of the NSA program, so Chief of Staff Andrew Card and future Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez went to the hospital Ashcroft was staying in to get him to sign onto it. Comey went to cut them off, but Ashcroft didn't need it; he told them that he's currently recovering from surgery, and Comey's in charge. Comey was prepared to resign if the Bush administration pushed the issue too far.

So that first impression of Comey did influence my thoughts since last December. He seems like a principled man and even though he's a Republican is willing to push back for those principles. I believe he put a lot of thought into revealing the FBI investigation into Clinton's emails right before Election Day, and did not try to purposefully bring about a Republican victory. From later reports coming from the FBI, he has a lot of respect for the position he held and did not want it to become involved in politics. He just genuinely believed he had to inform congress of what he was doing for legal reasons. And to be honest, I don't think that shit really affected the elections that much; if she won by over a million votes but still lost, does some emails really change shit?

But the situation with Trump is much more obfuscate. As I said before, I feel like Russia is Trump's Benghazi. Unless if someone from his team asked the Russians to hack the DNC or the Russians approached them with this information — something I really doubt — there really isn't anything terribly criminal here. But because of the political climate, people are wondering whether Comey was fired for his Russia investigation. Maybe? But knowing Trump it could simply be he didn't like the man. Comey has proven himself time and again in the past of not being a team player, and that's the opposite of what the president requires of his subordinates.

The whole Comey situation is interesting to me is it's pure politics in full force. Trump mishandled the firing and the optics, but I think the reaction came as a surprise to him. After all, didn't the Democrats hate Comey for what he did to Clinton? And it truly is hilarious watching them suddenly be pissed at Trump for his actions when just months ago they were clamoring for Comey's resignation. Now they're acting indignant about it?

To be honest, the most shocking thing about this whole episode is that Joe Lieberman — Joe fucking Lieberman! — is being seriously considered as a replacement for the FBI Director. This truly is the craziest presidency I've lived under.