Former FBI director James Komi was in a very difficult situation. As is now well known (although many Trump supporters pretend that this is not obvious and not proven), Putin actively intervened in the American elections and did his best to defeat Trump, writes Yuri Felshtinsky Newsader. Com. - You can speculate on whether this intervention was decisive (it can not be determined), but given Trump's minimum over Clinton (and even the loss by the total number of votes, most of whom received Clinton), one can assert that by his victory Trump owes Putin.
However, there was also a second person who evidently intervened, more precisely - influenced, the results of the November presidential elections in the United States. This man was the director of the FBI Komi. His statement on October 28, 2016 stating that the FBI is resuming the investigation of the case of violations committed by Clinton in dealing with secret State Department emails, certainly weakened Clinton's position and affected the election results. As with the Russian intervention, it is impossible to verify how the Komi statement affected the election results. But in that it played into Trump's hands and was used to the maximum against Clinton in the hottest days of the election race, there can be no doubt. It is no accident that the ex-secretary of state said during her last meeting with the press, on May 2, that if the elections were held on October 27, that is, before the Komi statement, then she would become the president of the United States.
Of course, President Obama was obliged to dismiss the Komi already on October 28. He did not, as this would mean that Obama, for his part, is trying to influence the elections. And it was not obvious that such a dismissal would improve the situation of Clinton. Obama could fire Komi after the elections - until January 20, when the new president was in office. Obama had enough time for this, especially since the Komi statement of October 28 did, in fact, deal a serious, if not decisive, blow to Clinton. But Obama decided to avoid this political demonstration, since Clinton still lost, and Trump already won. Correctly or not, Obama considered that this decision to remove the Komi should lie on the shoulders of the new president.
Trump, for his part, could fire Komi the day after taking office. But Trump did not fire Komi, apparently believing that after the October statement, Komi could not remain an unbiased director of the FBI and in all matters of principle for Trump will take the side of the new president.
However, Trump miscalculated, and during recent hearings in the Senate it became clear that the Komi intends to continue the investigation about the possible involvement of Trump staff members in questionable or even criminal ties with Russia. From the fact that the FBI director - if you believe Trump's letter about Komi's resignation - had to inform the president three times that the FBI was not conducting his investigation, first of all, that Trump suspected the Komi of carrying out such an investigation. Moreover, we can assume the opposite: Komi never wrote to Trump that the FBI does not conduct its investigation against the president and indeed the investigation did, for which he was eventually dismissed by Trump.
During the Senate hearings on May 3, Komi described how he "podtash" from the thought that his statement on October 28 affected the course of the presidential election. Of course, one could interpret his words less philosophically and more mundane: Komi is sick of the fact that Trump became president.
Perhaps, it was this statement that decided the fate of Komi, since the simplistic thinker Trump just heard his FBI director. I wonder if Komi would have "nauseated" less if he had not spoken on October 28 and the president had become Clinton? We will never know about this either.
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