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Letter: Comey firing was warranted

By Ron Hughes, VANCOUVER
Published: May 17, 2017, 6:00am

This is in regard to columnist Dana Milbank’s May 13 opinion column, “Firing of Comey reveals Trump is a tin-pot tyrant.”

Reading Milbank’s column was like stepping into an alternate universe where logic, facts and reasoning are nonexistent. I won’t correct and try to unwind every convoluted and twisted point he makes, but I’ll address his main point. FBI director Comey was fired because his performance was inadequate. Last July, nearly every prominent Democrat in the country wanted the director to receive a pink slip.

Any and all investigations will proceed without a hitch.

I’m curious — was President Bill Clinton called a tin-pot tyrant for firing his FBI director?

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