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Seven Ways Trump Firing FBI Director James Comey Could Backfire

Trump took a slow burn and threw napalm on it.

In a stunning move, President Trump fired FBI director James Comey Tuesday, and appointed his deputy, Andrew McCabe to serve as interim director. It's an extraordinary step, even for an unconventional president: Only one other FBI director has been fired by a sitting president since the bureau's founding in 1908.

A golden rule of politics is that when a scandal breaks, you try to minimize it. You try to stamp out the fire. By firing James Comey, Trump took a slow burn and threw napalm on it. This could backfire in seven big ways.

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