On Wednesday night’s edition of “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee,” the host didn’t even need to make any jokes as she broke down the immediate aftermath of FBI Director James Comey’s firing on Tuesday.
In her (now apparently frequent) segment “Our Weekly Constitution: What the F— Is It This Time,” Bee laid out how the news media and members of the White House reacted following the “shocking” news, as many reporters described it.
“A shockwave bombshell earthquake! Oh how I pity anybody in the DC area who was baking a soufflé when the news broke,” she quipped.
Bee then ran down the — let’s be honest, unbelievable — series of events that followed the Comey firing. The termination letter was hand-delivered to FBI headquarters, but Comey was in Los Angeles and heard about his firing on the news. Then news choppers followed him down the highway in what Bee called “in a weird echo of the O.J. case.”
Back over to Washington, Press Secretary Sean Spicer was hiding in the bushes because “he’d rather get Lyme disease then talk to the press,” as Bee put it.
THEN the media started comparing the situation to when President Nixon fired the special prosecutor looking into the Watergate scandal. The comparisons would be tenuous at best until Henry Kissinger showed up sitting in a chair next to President Trump.
How he got there nobody knows, but as Bee speculated, “He never left! He’s been trapped in the dumbwaiter all these years.”
Despite most of the segment being taken up with the sheer amount of news that came out of the termination, Bee found time to put in her two cents.
“I don’t like James Comey, nobody does,” Bee said. “Comey’s a bit of a turd. But at least he’s an independent turd.”
“This president has wiped his ass with the Constitution so many times the National Archives started leaving passive-aggressive notes asking him to chip in for toilet paper,” she added.
Watch the video above.
James Comey Timeline: Events That Led to FBI Director's Firing (Photos)
For the first time since 1993, a U.S. president has fired a director of the FBI. Comey's final year as head of the Bureau before his dismissal Tuesday was wrought with controversy, as Democrats and Republicans alike criticized him for his handling of the FBI's investigations into Hillary Clinton's emails and possible connections between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia. Here's how we got to this point:
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July 2013: Disgraced former NY Congressman Anthony Weiner sees his campaign for New York mayor derailed when screenshots of explicit conversations between him and several women are leaked. His wife, Huma Abedin, who was deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State, stands by him.
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September 2013: President Barack Obama appoints James Comey as FBI Director. Comey served as U.S. Deputy Attorney General from 2003-2005 and had worked in the intervening years at Lockheed Martin and HSBC, among other private sector jobs.
April 2015: Hillary Clinton announces her campaign for the president just weeks after The New York Times reported that she used a personal email server as Secretary of State. Abedin is named vice-chairwoman of her campaign.
July 2016: After investigating Clinton's emails, Comey announces that the FBI does not recommend charging Clinton in connection to the personal server. Two days later, Comey is questioned by a Republican-led House Committee about his recommendation.
August 2016: Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin announce their separation after reports surface that Weiner had sent explicit text messages to another woman.
September 2016: Reports surface that Weiner had sent illicit text messages to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina, prompting a federal investigation. During the investigation, authorities seize a laptop belonging to Weiner and Abedin.
Oct. 28, 2016: Comey sends a letter to Congress informing members that Abedin's laptop may contain emails linked to the Clinton investigation. Clinton calls on the FBI to release all the information they have.
Nov. 6, 2016: Comey writes another letter saying that nothing new was found on Abedin's laptop, with Newsweek reporting that most of the emails found were ones forwarded by Abedin so she could print them. Two days after Comey sends the second letter, Hillary Clinton loses the presidential election to Donald Trump.
March 2017: Comey reveals during a House Intelligence Committee hearing that the FBI is performing an investigation into possible connections between the Kremlin and members of Trump's campaign.
May 3, 2017: Comey testifies in Congress again, this time before a Senate Committee about the details of the FBI's investigation into Clinton's email server. He says that Abedin had forwarded "forwarded hundreds and thousands of emails, some of which contain classified information" to Weiner to print out of convenience.
May 9, 2017: ProPublica and the Associated Press report that Comey had exaggerated the number of emails found in the laptop and that none of the emails were classified when sent. Later that day, Comey is fired from his position by Donald Trump.
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Comey’s four-year tenure as FBI director ends 10 months after recommending Hillary Clinton not be charged for his email investigation
For the first time since 1993, a U.S. president has fired a director of the FBI. Comey's final year as head of the Bureau before his dismissal Tuesday was wrought with controversy, as Democrats and Republicans alike criticized him for his handling of the FBI's investigations into Hillary Clinton's emails and possible connections between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia. Here's how we got to this point:
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