Today at about 5PM EDT, Trump fired Comey. This has already ignited a media firestorm with Democrats stating Trump did it to shut down the Russian collusion story. The Republicans meanwhile are citing Comey's marked failure in handling the Clinton email case and most recently for possible obstruction, by slow-walking the Susan Rice unmasking case.

A brief sampling of the early reports shows the expected divide in the two Duopoly factions accusations. The following does not pretend to be encyclopedic. In fact, this is going to be another long diversion from issues that truly matter to the Americn people like income inequality, austerity, Medicare-for-all/single-payer (MFA/SP), environmental protection, ending of war, etc. So watch the show, knowing it is another perversion of our so-called governance.

Why did Comey get the invitation to leave and don't let the door hit you in the ass treatment? Here is one article offering six reasons for dismissal.

1. He hurt the FBI's reputation--he certainly did.

2. He mishandled the Clinton email investigation--yes, again

3. He broke with tradition--

a "departure from the department's widely respected, nonpartisan traditions."

In that sense he also did.

4. Trump doesn't like him--this is an understandable but illegitimate complaint. Personal animus should not interfere with analysis of whether Comey was doing his job, rather than who was he favoring. You will get debate as to whether Comey favored Clinton (which I think he did) or if he was just doing the best he could due to the pressure-cooker situation in which he found himself.

5. Trump is embarrassed by him--well, yes. That is not hard to do when dealing with a narcissist.

The president recently accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, of wiretapping his phones during the campaign. Comey has shut down this allegation, explaining that Obama could not order a wiretap of anyone's phone unchecked.

Yes, of course this was embarrassing. Trump is largely to blame for this by inartfully expressing surveillance as "wiretapping". Wire tapping is easy to prove or disprove. Trump should think before he tweets. (What a novel concept).

6. Comey knows something about Russia--this is pure bullshit speculation which has not resulted in any proof of political collusion. Business dealings, yes, with non-politicians. This is certainly considered admirable by all the free-marketer neoliberal who so worship "the market". More damn hypocrisy by the DemonRATs.

From a timeline relating to Weiner's sexting/Abedin's transmitting documents comes the following:

May 9, 2017: The Washington Post and Associated Press follow up on ProPublica's article, claiming that none of the emails were designated as classified when sent. The FBI sends a letter to Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, about Comey's testimony. The letter says that the "hundreds and thousands" of messages Comey referred to included backups and forwarded emails, and investigators looked at 49,000 potentially relevant emails but "ultimately determined that two email chains containing classified information were manually forwarded to Mr. Weiner's account." Ten other chains with classified information were also on the laptop because of backup software, and together all 12 "previously had been reviewed by investigators."

Then, in a surprise twist, Trump fired Comey. The decision apparently came at the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the latter of whom wrote a memo insisting that Comey needed to be terminated in order to restore Americans' confidence in the FBI after his mishandling of the Clinton probe.

Trump himself wrote in a letter to Comey that the director was "not able to effectively lead" the FBI. "It is essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission," Trump wrote. "I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors."

From another article comes statement about FBI officials' criticism of Comey's inaccurate Sentate testimony:

On Thursday, May 4, Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff at the State Department, Huma Abedin, “forwarded hundreds and thousands of emails, some of which contain classified information” to her husband Anthony Weiner’s laptop for him to print out.

The problem is, none of the emails were marked classified at the time, and Comey’s description of how the emails ended up on the disgraced former congressman’s computer is inaccurate, according to FBI officials who spoke to the investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica Monday.

Now this is a sticky point.
1. Hillary directed her staff on occasions to not mark documents as secret when emailed to her unsecured server.
2. Comey's description of the transfer from Medusa to Weiner via Abedin was misleading. He said this action did not show intent.

Advice to fire Comey came from Attorney General Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein:

"It is not the function of the director to make such an announcement [about an investigation]," Rosenstein wrote. "At most, the director should have said the FBI had completed its investigation and presented its findings to federal prosecutors. The director now defends his decision by asserting that he believed Attorney General Loretta Lynch had a conflict. But the FBI director is never empowered to supplant federal prosecutors and assume command of the Justice Department."

Trump's letter to Comey regarding his firing contains:

"While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau," the president continued. "It is essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission. I wish you the best of luck in your future

Rosenstein added further, in a separate correspondence to Trump:

"The way the director handled the conclusion of the email investigation was wrong," Rosenstein wrote. "As a result, the FBI is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust until it has a director who understands the gravity of the mistakes and pledges never to repeat them. Having refused to admit his errors, the director cannot be expected to implement the necessary corrective actions."

Explanation of DOJ's recommendations are found in Rosenstein's letter to Sessions:

Comey had been the subject of a review by the very top of the Trump Justice Department. Newly confirmed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein penned an extensive memo for Attorney General Jeff Sessions outlining concerns with Comey’s conduct during and after the Clinton email probe.

The memo said “almost everyone agrees that the Director made serious mistakes.” Rosenstein wrote that he could not defend Comey’s handling of the end of the investigation, and could not understand “his refusal to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken.”

The first count against Comey, according to Rosenstein, was his July 5, 2016 announcement during which he alleged Clinton and her colleagues were “extremely careless” in handling classified material on her personal email and server but also said the FBI would not recommend charges.

The second point at issue in the firing:

The second count against Comey concerned his Oct. 28, 2016 notification to Congress that the bureau was taking another look at the Clinton case in light of newly discovered emails. While Comey has said he did not want to conceal information, Rosenstein said simply refraining from publicizing “non-public information” would not have been concealment.

Reactions of the Hillarites is fear and loathing:

There were few people who despised James Comey more than those political operatives working for Hillary Clinton in Brooklyn during the 2016 campaign. But word of the FBI director's firing was met with fear, not joy, on Tuesday.

Hillary Clinton's office did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment on Comey's dismissal.

Foreseeable Implications of Comey's departure

In my opinion, this will not hurt Trump at all. The DemonRATs will throw all sorts of verbal missiles about him, alluding to the Saturday Night Massacre (already done by John Podesta), Trump's fear of his TRUE Russian collusion being revealed, and overall general unhappiness with anything Trump. This will have absolutely no impact, except for the MSM, who are already criticizing Trump for anything and everything. Due to Barry Obama's careful cultivation of the Democratic base, the Dem party is too politically feeble to mount a meaningful counterattack.

What this does portend is renewed push to bring Hillary down, now that Lynch, Comey and Bubba are out of the way. The era of Republicans not going all-out to sink HRC and co. is over. Susan Rice will be subpoenaed. Human Abedin will be subpoenaed. Anthony Weiner is probably already in possession of an immunity deal. Obama himself could be subpoenaed because of his use of Clinton's unsecured server and his lies about it.

My guess is that lots of people are going to prison because of this.

My guess is also that the DNC corruption trial will be successful.

If Trump ever wakes up to the fact that Deep Staters still remaining at State are still out to ruin him, he will get Tillerson to do more housecleaning.