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    This Is Not a Drill

    The firing of FBI director James Comey poses a question: Will the law answer to the president, or the president to the law?
    by David Frum May 09, 2017 2 minutes
    Source: Susan Walsh / AP

    Who can sincerely believe that President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey for any reason other than to thwart an investigation of serious crimes? Which crimes—and how serious—we can only guess.

    The suggestion that Comey was fired to punish him for overzealously mishandling the Clinton email investigation appears along with him.

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