The Most Important Decision of the Trump Administration

I have had reason to comment several times earlier earlier on your goodself Alan Dershowitz, sadly in a somewhat negative manner. If Alan you are such a hard and fast Democrat, are your sentiments clearly with an ex dysfunctional Obama who wanted to sell America to the Arabs, send CASH (in billions) to the Iranians and ensure that the non proliferation treaty with Iran was a standing joke. Let us not forget that Obama openly backed the newly elected French President. In my mind and the minds of many others, is the beginning of the end of France.

Hillary was and is a lady with many secrets! or, maybe no secrets, as she kept, and deleted high classified information on her personal computer. A trait which any other person would have been in prison for by now.

Alan you speak on Israeli television, are Jewish, BUT your politics seem confusing!!!!! I am really confused, as I am with NY Jews who work against their own people.

The constant blocking by the Democrats of President Trump to proceed with his agenda, as voted for by the American people is a sad scenario.,

Gatestone as per all the readers who read and enter their comments, are for Freedom, democracy and human rights. Obama seemingly, as a democrat had none of those aspirations. I still see Obama whilst the President of America, bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia.

With all due respect Mr. Dershowitz the hulabaloo over the firing of Director Comey is nothing more than a sideshow created by the opposition to prevent the Trump Administration from functioning effectively for at least the time being. President Trump will replace Comey with a person highly capable and dedicated to doing the Peoples Business, ...just as he has done with every other appointment in his short be highly effective administration.

Further, I would say the most important decision he has to make relative to the key players in this government is whether he continues to support Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House, or whether he loses (Or has lost?!) confidence in his ability to spearhead a Legislature that is working for the people rather than the ensconced elite!

President Trump made the right decision regarding Comey, I have no doubt. Will he make the right decision regarding Ryan? That is the key question at this point. If Ryan continues in place, the Peoples business will suffer. If Ryan is sent packing, replaced by a leader like Mark Meadows who has the ability and desire to help drain the swamp, this nation will advance in all areas Foreign and Domestic like no time since the Reagan years!

Alan,
You are well respected but please, many Americans are not concerned about Director Comey's firing, and the crowd I hear said it was about time he was dumped. The fact that he was fired is telling. It would have been easier for the President to ask for a resignation - but he didn't. The purpose was to let us know that Comey was up to no good, but then we all knew he was. The issue was, who was rubbing his bottom? Who was Comey working for? Well that got answered the first hour after the news hit the streets. Billy Kristol was slobbering all over the place. So, the Neo-Cons lost a favorite son. Who cares? You Neos are no more than liberals with a bent toward Russian hating and bating! We the people - we want to make sense of the world. We the conservatives want our country out of the hands of liberals, socialists and self made oligarchs. So my thought is, "good bye and good riddance Mr. Comey."

"President Trump can also allay doubts if he were to announce his support for an independent Commission, modeled on the 911 Commission, to investigate all aspects of the alleged Russian connection, including the leaks growing out of the current investigation. All Americans should be interested in learning the unvarnished truth about these important issues." Yes, thank you, for this is the only way that the Russian connections can be investigated. However, as I am sure you realize, there is nothing NORMAL about the ongoing Trump train wreck!

Lifelong Democrat Alan Dershowitz is hardly an objective observer in this matter. President Trump's mistake was not firing Comey immediately after taking office. You do not have to be a Harvard law professor to recognize that Comey was seriously compromised and not an impartial FBI director.

Listening to Comey publicly articulate the case for prosecuting Hillary Clinton and then conclude with his decision (not his to make) not to prosecute her was stunning. It indicated corrupt political maneuvering to anyone with a shred of common sense. Comey has been running interference for the Clinton's for years.

The alleged "Russian connection" to Trump is just the latest fiction of the Democrats designed to deflect attention away from the Clinton criminal investigation. It is as untrue and deceitful as their infamous Benghazi video.

President Trump's next move should be to fire McCabe - another Clinton loyalist - and appoint someone who will pursue the Clinton investigation tenaciously and with integrity. A thorough investigation into Clinton's illegal unsecured server and illegal unsecured emails will expose crooked Hillary's corrupt and very real Russian connections where she illegally sold American uranium to the Canadians who resold it to the Russians. A thorough Clinton investigation will also expose the very real Russian connections to John Podesta.

The Democrats have been consistently accusing Donald Trump of doing exactly what they are doing themselves. The real news is that it is the Democrats who have the real Russian connections that must be investigated. The echo chamber of the mainstream media is reverberating with its fake news witch hunt against Donald Trump to protect the Clintons and the Democratic party.

Thanks for the article, and for the existing democracy, but the TRUTH IS THE TRUTH, the US president was legally elected and the narrative of Russia did not change anything in the elections, for the president to appoint someone or destitute him its no very important, THE MOST IMPORTANT MATTER must be the Perform and the legal duties of the president. As long as it does not violate the Constitution.

Oh, so the President can learn from his mistake?

Who judges whether this is a mistake or not? Alan Dershowitz or the people that elected Trump? From what I'm reading only the anti-Trump democrats and their in-pocket MSM are making unprovable accusations or criticizing. Supporters of Trump and most Republicans are either supporting this or reserving judgement, probably the most practical approach. Let's then see who Trump appoints into this position.

It seems to have been forgotten that Comey was an Obama appointment. This puts him right in the hot zone especially given the blatant interference being run by the Clinton/Obama camp. It also appears that Comey's job performance was questionable. The sacking was justified.

If Clinton had been elected you can be sure that any Russian connection would have swept under the carpet. In any case the Russian connection, if it exists in any meaningful sense, is being used as a weapon to beat up the new administration.

Alan M. Dershowitz can't stand moral courage and has less regard for moral absolutes, just like James Comey. There has never been a better reason to fire an FBI Director than Comey who was neck deep in the political intrigue that protected Hillary Clinton from prosecution and destroyed the morale of the fine men and women who worked under him and brought forth the damning evidence that would have put anyone else in prison for life. Comey should have been fired the first day Trump came into office, but cleaning the swamp just takes time. When it was Comey's time to go, Trump showed him the exit. The FBI needs to have its integrity restored. Firing James Comey is the first step in the process.

This article is partisan propaganda by a well known leftist. Comey is incompetent, political, and a liar -- he should have been fired long ago, and would have been if he hadn't been using his position to the political benefit of the Obama administration and the Democrats.

Removing Comey has no effect on any ongoing investigations by the FBI, and the investigation into the possibility of some unknown Russian interference in US elections is a politically-motivated combination of snipe-hunt and witch-hunt. It was begun last summer as a distraction, and an opportunity to bash Trump and intimate that he might be colluding with a foreign power to defeat Hillary. In nearly a year it has found no evidence of any Russian involvement, or collusion between Russians and the Trump campaign organization, and no specific acts that could be associated with such interference, or collusion. It has been allowed to continue, despite having produced nothing, and still for political reasons, in an attempt to de-legitimize the president, and in hope that something (whether,or not connected with Russia) might be found to use against him.

Dershowitz's recommendation of an investigatory committee is only an attempt to drag this farce on for several more years. This whole controversy is nothing but a partisan attempt to undermine, and if possible destroy, a president who is despised by his enemies.

"President Trump can learn from his mistake and lean over backwards to do the right thing going forward. That right thing begins with who he nominates to replace Comey, and it continues with his support of a truly independent and non-partisan investigative commission."

This is supposing that Trump will become humble and admit and error in judgment.

Surely, the distinguished jurist Alan Dershowitz knows Trump and knows this impossible. Especially since he accused Comey of "Grandstanding" and being a "Showboat".

It is difficult to understand how a legal scholar, a lawyer such as Mr. Dershowitz, would publish such an opinion which infers guilt on the part of President Trump. As I wrote to our RINO Senator, Richard Burr, allow me to share some critical information.
1. Hillary Clinton BROKE FEDERAL LAW with the emails.
2. On July 5th, Comey presented the numerous FEDERAL LAWS that Hillary Clinton broke.
3. Then Mr. Comey continued by stating, although she was guilty, that there wasn't a prosecutor who would indict or prosecute her "because Mrs. Clinton didn't show intent." The following October, Comey 'reopened' the file with the same results. ANY US CITIZEN WOULD HAVE BEEN IN JAIL LONG AGO for the violations by Mrs. Clinton.
4. Mr. Comey was the head of the FBI. It is his JOB to investigate alleged crimes and present his findings to the DOJ, although we know (as would everyone with a brain knows) Loretta Lynch would have NEVER issued an indictment for the FEDERAL LAWS Hillary Clinton broke.
5. It is NOT Mr. Comey's job to act as the judge and jury. He overstepped his authority knowingly. There are boundaries, there are laws and procedures to follow, none of which he followed.

Had the Clintons won the White House, Comey would have been fired January 21. It would be refreshing to see the numerous laws broken by Hillary Clinton; she should have already been serving time in Leavenworth.

Whatever happened to sending Hillary Clinton to jail? How come Comey gave her a pass? Trump should put a big comb through the FBI and the CIA and start uncovering and sacking the incompetent partisan hacks who have degraded the image of America right across the world.

Perhaps the author can explain to me what collusion with the Russians means. Did Vladimir cause Hillary to place her illegal server in the bathroom of a mom & pop computer operation to be scrubbed? Did Vladimir stop her from campaigning in key states she ultimately lost? Did he cause her to run a lousy out of touch campaign? Did the Russians make her delete 30,000 emails, or send classified information to Anthony Weiner? By what standard did the President do the wrong thing in firing Comey, an appointee who usurped judicial powers from the Justice department? A glib tongue does not a valid critique make. Comey deserved to be fired, even if inartfully done.

Whoa Dersh,
You're fighting the last war. The Donald made no mistake other than waiting too long to fire Comey who was in far over his head and probably in the midst of a nervous breakdown. The Trump was cruel in the way he disposed of Comey. Too Bad!! Sorry and all that.

What deafening silence from Democrats and the USA press when Obama interfered in the Israeli elections, approving the contribution of $250,000 to undermine Bibi. And even more recently Obama interfered in the Brexit vote and a week ago interfered in the French elections. And what does this say of the integrity of USA Jews in this silence?

I am so outraged that these nobodies are giving Trump advice regarding the Comey firing. Trump is the duly elected President, show some respect.

Trying to turn a potent positive into a negative, ay? Karl Rove must be so proud.

What is the difference 'what goes on in the Presidents mind?' It seems by the facts and from the 'horses mouth' that Comey was turning out to be a megalomaniac who decided to be judge and jury on matters of national importance. Full Stop!

Very good article. I think it is more that the Russians want the US as a colony to enrich themselves. Therefore the US anti-Trump faction is agonizing in a Byzantine fashion about Russian interference.

Resulting from the many lies between Obama as Pres. and H. Clinton & colleagues related to State Dept., many Americans have become inured to lies/conspiracies because so many were thrust upon the American voter constituency. The "bought and paid for MSM" is just as responsible for promoting the lies of the political charlatans. We have a large percentage of decent Americans who find difficulty in trusting the government now. Trump gained election momentum via his "Drain the swamp" slogan which was the absolutely necessary, but America has been hurt and is hesitant to trust or believe. A serious impediment for belief in government activities now exists and hopefully decent intentions will be recognized by Americans.
Hopefully, some time and proven good intentions will register faith in the newly elected government, barely over its first 100 days.

This suggests a possible solution, but the fact is Comey's time was limited. Is he an overt Islamist that supports the idea radical Islam does not exists? He served in a government that obstructed and even punished people for believing criticism of Islam and designating radical Islamists not "revolutionaries" or victims of some capitalist conspiracy put forward by globalist regressive liberal socialist agendas. He was Obama's yes man from the beginning of his appointment.
People who know him claim he is a good man, so he can write a book.
Over 100 instances of radical Islamic acts in the USA during Obama's presidency and the best they could come up with is, there is no such thing as radical Islam, and Comey enforced the policies. Good riddance.

As far as I know, Nixon had no grounds for firing Cox other than that he didn't like the demands that Cox had made for the Nixon tapes.

The situation with Comey is far far different, in that grounds for Comey's firing, totally separate from any investigation of Russian collusion by the Trump campaign, existed nearly a year ago and subsequently.

Seems to me that speculation as to Trump's motives is irrelevant if the grounds existed for Comey's firing, and they have ever since Obama failed to act and fire him for his behavior last July and subsequently. I can't help being troubled by the hypocrisy of the Left not only since they have also called for Comey's firing but also for their willingness to malign Trump for doing what they wished to have done but they never once, to my knowledge, criticized Obama for his failure to do so.

While President Trump had successful business experience prior to the election he has, it turns out, little to no experience in dealing with vipers and dealing with this wide variety of snakes. These include the news media who are working hard to manufacture a problem that will stick, hold-over bureaucrats who are experienced in slithering in and among other snakes and we can't forget the spineless members of Congress who love nothing more than piling on as long as they aren't alone when they jump.

What a waste of time and energy to write such a lame article. President Trump has the wisdom and integrity to do the right thing at the right time, not to wait around before taking care of a major problem for the country until it is more suitable for his interests.

It is so ridiculous and shameful that the whole has been hung up on such an obvious, manufactured crisis by people who have so many connections to Russia. Hillary and John P. are so tied up with Russia in so many layers upon layers of mutual interests. So much has been printed about all the deals, but nobody will talk about them. Comey certainly should have, at least about one in many, but I guess all the hanky-panky done by Hillary, a Canadian company and Putin was not with "intent" to hurt our country by giving Russia one fifth of our uranium. John has huge money dealings with Russian entities. That has been out in mainstream news, but it is just passed over without comment to get to a paltry speaking fee
General Flynn received in Russia.

The author of this article is a distinguished American and he has truly given good advice to our president. As a fellow American I am taking this opportunity to suggest that he would be so much more appreciated, beyond measure, if he would get a little commission (no not like the lying 9/11 one) together and do a little checking into the large amount of dealings of the party of Hillary with Putin and Company and let us have more to talk about Russia and the campaign.

I do more and more believe that the average American is going in for a Civil War. They are so much more hostile; towards the other Party than to Taliban or ISIS. They almost hate each other; and no matter what this man Donald does they will, just for the heck of it, OPPOSE; and to hell with how it hurts America. It is like "The last days of Pompey."

While I agree with most of what Professor Dershowitz has written here, I want to point out that the "unvarnished truth" may be nearly impossible to discern due to the way electronic media can be distorted, planted and intercepted. Accordingly, while seemingly antiquated, we ought to go back to old fashioned paper ballots (not of the Florida "hanging chad" variety) as we as a requirement to prove identity in order to vote. Why Democrats consistently fight against the latter is beyond rational explanation: Jim Crow laws are truly a thing of the past and winning illegal alien votes appears to be what drives their insanity here. Americans deserve to know that a fair, impartial and one man/one vote system is I'm place for lawful U.S. citizens. If we do not ensure this, then we will continue to see more hacking, electronic shadiness and suspicion.

Mr. Dershowitz,
You spent too much time listening to your Democratic Party co-members' false arguments and feigned outrage concerning former FBI directory firing. Those hypocrites first blamed Comey for world sins when he was on Hillary's trail, and wanted him out, but these days they fell in love with him just to hit president in another way.
Now, it is President prerogative to fire or keep members of his administration to begin with. His, and no one else.
Second, Mr. Comey did not bring to conclusion any serious transgression of Obama's administration:
- High secret emails on Hillary's laptop
- Benghazi
- Fast and Furious disaster
- Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch making deals on airport tarmac
- Hillary allowing Russian company to buy American uranium
- Clintons' dirty tricks with their foundation
- unmasking (read spying) of innocent Americans, including member of Congress

Did I mention all?
On top of that Mr. Comey has attempted to assume a role of deputy AG by pontificating what needs to be done in Hillary's case even though is absolutely not his area of responsibilities.

And you demand our President to come clean with his firing Mr.Comey?
Shame on you.

I would say - good riddance! As for you - get back to reality sir, your loyalty to Democratic Party has blinded your sense of justice. You will loose respect of many people by putting false demands on behalf of completely unhinged in your party.

Sincerely
Vladimir Kievsky

This is like charges being made against the video taping of Planned Parenthood by activists. Planned Parenthood is not being charged with the selling of baby parts, but the activists who uncovered the selling, are being charged. Now, the Russians and Trump are being investigated for revealing the dirty tricks of the Clinton campaign. It doesn't matter who revealed the emails, etc. What matters is that the American people found out what was really going on with Hillary Clinton.

Very well said.
Mr. Dershowitz is always eloquent.
Thank you.

For all the hand-wringers who believe Comey was only fired because President Trump wants to put an end to the Russian meme, I provide the following link. There is a great deal of damning information about Comey that FAKE news fails to report. This read will help you connect the dots. An excerpt in quotes below. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/05/09/the-final-top-tier-intel-black-hat-leaker-removed/#more-132424

"People can attempt to defend Comey for whatever reason they may carry. However, the factual reality is James Comey was carrying out a counterintelligence investigation completely off the range of congressional oversight. Intentionally so.

FBI Director James Comey intentionally kept congress in the dark on his investigative activity. Our system of checks and balances are specifically set up to stop this from happening, and to keep a watch on the 'watchers'. Director Comey subverted the oversight for his own political purposes.

There is no defense for the FBI director acting alone and not notifying congress of what he is doing through the established protocols. It doesn't matter who the FBI director is. Comey should have been fired on March 20th after he told congress he was intentionally not allowing them oversight over his conduct. His firing should have been an immediate no-brainer."

By next month no will remember Comey's being fired. No investigation is being blocked. There was no Russian involvement in the Trump Campaign. Sigh!!!

Best choice with the right training and unassailed reputation for honesty, a rare quality in The Swamp, is Congressman Trey Gowdy, hands down. Would he accept the challenge of doing the job without all the razzmatazz that surrounded Comey? I would think so. Too bad that attorney Dershowitz is unable to see through all the BS that is the Gimmedat Party members, pontificating on how a wonderful and unselfish public servant, Director Comey, could be slimed and fired after conveniently forgetting the traitorous Hillary November letter that "threw the election" to President Trump. That Gimmedat hypocrisy is never-ending and amazingly overlooked by so-called elites of the other Swamp, the Ivy League.

I cannot believe you have bought into the Trump fake Russian connection, Hillary lost because she ain't well liked, a Professor Emeritus? Who said smart people have common sense? I see none here! Fake news garbage, I like Gatestone news but this is pretty puerile! Trump and the Russian connection (tripe) it goes to prove having a law degree means nothing in the real world!