Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

[Mav]

By the way, just because many think that Comey stuffed up by going public over Clinton's emails doesn't mean he should be sacked. FBI Directors are appointed for 10 year terms precisely to give them a form of tenure that will allow them to act independently of the White House. Yes, an incoming President usually replaces the heads of many agencies.  But not the FBI Director. 

Only once has an FBI Director been sacked before the end of that term.  Bill Clinton sacked William Sessions in 1993 but that was with bipartisan support.  He had committed ethical violations by using the private FBI jet to visit his daughter (in the same way that Speakers such as Slipper and Bronwyn Bishop have been forced out). 

And never before has a President dismissed an FBI Director when the FBI was investigating the associates of the President.

An FBI Director shouldn't have the Damoclean Sword hanging over his or her head, ready to fall for mere errors of judgement in performing the job as opposed to ethical violations.

Apparently, Clinton had received firm advice prior to the election that she could not sack Comey if she won as it would be seen as a naked political revenge and she had accepted that advice.