Trump ‘Deserves Credit’ for Firing FBI Director Comey, Shapiro Blogs

President Donald Trump “deserves credit” for firing FBI Director James Comey, CTA President Gary Shapiro said Friday in an American Spectator blog post that bore the headline: "Firing Comey Proved Trump Acts Like America’s CEO." According to Shapiro, "if you don’t trust someone, if they use bad judgment, or if they are hurting the enterprise, then every day of delay inflicts unnecessary pain on the company or enterprise.” Had Trump waited for the Russian probe to end before terminating Comey, "he might have been waiting years, and in the process allowed further damage to the FBI’s reputation,” Shapiro said. Comey’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election “does not make him immune to criticism or mean we can forget about his past mistakes,” said Shapiro, accusing the former FBI chief of playing “fast and loose with the facts.” Shapiro thinks “comparisons to Nixon’s Watergate scandal are unfair,” he said of the wrongdoing that force President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974. “Trump is no Nixon, this is no Watergate, and Trump did the right thing.” Trump “can solve the situation by offering no resistance to the congressional investigation,” Shapiro said. “He can and should insist the FBI investigation continue with the resources it needs. He can offer to share documents and witnesses on an expedited basis. He can even call for a special prosecutor. If he has nothing to hide, then there is no issue.”