When news broke Tuesday that former FBI Director James Comey had been fired by President Donald Trump, there was no one more surprised than failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
There’s good reason. Legal experts agree that Comey’s ouster was very, very bad news for Hillary.
After years of escaping justice, a new FBI director may finally mean one thing: Trump will live up to his campaign promise, and Hillary is heading to jail.
CNN reported that the news left Clinton insiders fearful and upset.
According to The Los Angeles Times, they’re upset over the reason Trump fired Comey. Sources have leaked that the president was seriously upset by the way Comey mishandled the investigation into Hillary’s illegal activities.
In other words, it’s time to “lock her up!”
Critics of Hillary responded to Comey’s firing with new optimism.
Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano, a former judge and respected legal expert, speculated on Tuesday that the removal of Comey could lead to the prosecution of Hillary in 2017.
“Let me suggest another scenario, that [Deputy Attorney General] Rod Rosenstein reviewed the Hillary Clinton file, which he had never seen before and decided that Comey’s judgment was utterly irregular and inappropriate,” Napolitano said. “And that maybe she should have been — and still can be — indicted for espionage and the failure to safeguard state secrets while she was Secretary of State.”
Conservative news anchor Lou Dobbs is also calling for the reopening of the investigation into the illegal Clinton email server.
Firing Comey “was based on the Deputy Attorney General and the Attorney General saying, based on his handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton, he ought to be fired,” Dobbs said in an appearance on Fox News’ “Hannity” on Tuesday.
“That being the case, the question, the investigation and the consequences … should be reopened in my opinion,” Dobbs said.
— The Horn editorial team