EXTRA: Trump literally tells someone “You’re Fired!,” acting AG loses job

It took Richard M. Nixon some five years into his presidency before he gave us the “Saturday Night Massacre” – the Oct. 20, 1973, incident where the Attorney General and deputy were fired for refusing to fire a special prosecutor who dug a little too close into the Watergate break-in for Nixon’s comfort.

YATES: Can hold her head up high

It took Donald J. Trump only 10 days to commit the offense that I’m sure many with a historic or political perspective will compare it to.

TRUMP ON MONDAY ordered the dismissal of Sally Yates, who had been Attorney General since Jan. 20. She took actions Monday saying her office, which serves as the legal representation for federal government, to stop defending the United States against any legal challenges to the Trump executive order that caused so much chaos at airports across the nation, including Chicago's O'Hare International.

The one meant to make it difficult, if not impossible, for people from select Middle Eastern nations to get into this country.

Trump, of course, will take no such insolence – particularly from someone like Yates, who had been a deputy A.G. since 2015 and previously was a U.S. attorney for Northern Georgia.

She only had the top post on an interim basis because Trump didn’t want Attorney General Loretta Lynch remaining in the top post any longer than necessary. She was, after all, a Barack Obama appointee.

I’M SURE THAT as far as Trump is concerned, Yates was someone who came from the Obama era, and he would have replaced her anyway.

 

NIXON: Not long for Trump to invoke memory

The fact that she was publicly saying a Trump order was wrong? It’s not a shock she’s the first to get a public “You’re Fired!” from Trump, the president. It would be like a gangster firing his attorney who tried to plead him "guilty." Remember how the "Al Capone" character played by Robert DiNiro beat his attorney for doing just that in the 1987 film "The Untouchables" starring Kevin Costner?

Although considering that Yates was merely reflecting the same attitude as a majority of the people who have watched the federal government’s actions this weekend with a sense of shame for their home nation probably means she can now breathe a sigh of relief.

She no longer has to pretend to be a Trump-type person and can now move on with her life. While Trump adds to his reputation as nothing more than a political bully.

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Lynch had better follow FBI findings

I must admit to being shocked by all the attention being paid to Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s comments Friday that she “fully expect(s) to accept” the findings of FBI investigators looking into whether would-be presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton violated the law with rega the findings of FBI investigators looking into whether would-be presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton violated the law.

 

LYNCH: Doing her job

Because as I read her comment, all Lynch is saying is that she’s not about to interfere with a criminal investigation being conducted by federal authorities.

CONSIDERING THAT LYNCH herself is the nation’s highest-ranking law enforcement official, it would be a crime in and of itself if she were to try to interfere.

All she has really said is that she’s going to let officials go about their jobs and let the process go where it may.

Nothing more!!!!!

But then again, the level of political partisanship that our nation has risen to is so intense that it is no wonder some people But then again, the level of political partisanship that our nation has risen to is so intense that it is no wonder some people are desperate to believe anything they hear.

IF THESE KIND of people had truly had their way, Barack Obama would be rotting in a maximum-security prison cell for the crime oIf these kind of people had truly had their way, Barack Obama would be rotting in a maximum-security prison cell for the crime of having the nerve to think he could serve as U.S. president!

Just as Bill Clinton endured his share of investigations, most of which turned out to be nothing whatsoever (remember Whitewater?). And as for his fling with an intern, we will forevermore be debating whether Bill was a felon worthy of incarceration?

Or just a pig whose wife ought to be entitled to punish him any way she sees fit?

 

CLINTON: Campaigning amidst the nonsense

But because the name is “Clinton,” we’re now going to have these same people concocting schemes that they say warrant prison time for Hillary. If they couldn’t get Bill, they’ll now go after her.

IN FACT, THESE kind of people are the ones who probably view the world as one that deprived them of a chance to incarcerate both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, so now they feel like they’re “owed one” by going after Hillary.

Particularly amongst those who feel like the real problem with Bill Clinton was that he was weak and let his wife lead him astray.

A sexist thought, to be sure. But then again, these are the kind of people who rant and rage that “political correctness” keeps them from speaking the truth – or at least that version of the truth often included in the babblings of presidential dreamer Donald Trump (whose only chances of victory could literally be if something were to come about with these "charges")!

Now I’m not sure what to think of the allegations that are being spewed with regards to the one-time Secretary of State, whom they claim got careless with her use of personal e-mail accounts and wound up disclosing matters of national security.

A PART OF me thinks these allegations are as overhyped as any claim ever made against Bill Clinton. In fact, it was Bill who met with Lynch recently to discuss the matter.

Which is what led to Lynch feeling compelled to say publicly she plans to let the investigators do their thing, and nothing more.

 

TRUMP: Who else would benefit?

This is likely to become an issue where we’ll probably learn the truth long after the details can be used as ammunition in an Election Day campaign. And we’re likely to learn many years from now just how incredibly stupid and trivial the whole affair was.

Which will make our generation’s children wonder just how vacuous we could be in letting such trivia dominate our thoughts?

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