It’s always personal with Donald Trump.
Eight years ago, Trump fired James Comey, and today he fired the ex-FBI Director’s daughter.
In a move that seemed a long time coming due to POTUS’ relentless dislike of Maurene Comey’s father over allegations the Republican was a Putin puppet, the former Celebrity Apprentice host’s DOJ pink slipped the top tier prosecutor Wednesday.
A long time Assistant U.S. Attorney at the Southern District of New York office (that her father used to head), Comey was most recently the lead lawyer in the government’s not so successful case of sex-trafficking and racketeering against Sean “Diddy” Combs. Well regarded by colleagues and most defense attorneys, Comey also worked on the criminal cases against the now dead Epstein and his currently Incarcerated right-hand lady Ghislaine Maxwell.
While the SDNY declined to comment on Comey’s firing after a decade in the powerful office, three individuals with knowledge of events confirmed the axing to Deadline.
Comey’s exit comes as significant voices in Trump’s MAGA base are in the closest thing to open revolt over the administration and the president himself now saying there is no there there when it comes to Epstein after years of promising to release the files on the well-connected pedophile billionaire, who died in prison in 2019 by what has been called a suicide under admittedly suspicious circumstances. Under pressure from his followers, a deflecting Trump just yesterday said “these files were made up by Comey, they were made up by Obama, they were made up by the Biden administration.”
Trump was a constant companion to Epstein over the decades before the law finally caught up with the financier, and made no secret about what was front and center for the later convicted sex offender. “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years,” Trump said in a 2002 interview. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to make public the information the Department of Justice had on Epstein and potential marquee names he had done sordid business with. Earlier this year, once Trump was back in the White House, Attorney General Pam Bondi swore she had the list and the Epstein file on her desk. Even though it was revealed to not really contain anything new, the AG even invited friendly influencers and media to the Executive Mansion to receive a much pumped up binder on Epstein. So, the DOJ’s the sudden downplaying of any so-called “client list” or more in a
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