Randi Weingarten, president of the 1.6 million-member American Federation of Teachers and a personal friend of Hillary Clinton’s, said Tuesday that FBI Director James Comey’s surprise firing by President Trump means he was likely close to uncovering “something” Trump didn’t want found.
“This is an OMG moment. FBI Director James Comey Fired by Trump — How close was Comey to uncovering something on Trump?” Weingarten tweeted from her personal account.
She followed that a few minutes later with, “REALLY!! First Trump said he was keeping @PreetBharara them boom! First Trump said he was keeping @JamesComeyFBI then boom! Any similarity?”
Preet Bharara was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 until earlier this year. He stepped down as part of White House’s request for all 46 remaining U.S. attorneys hired by then-President Barack Obama to resign. The White House’s request was not unusual. The attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president and most incoming administrations seek to install their own picks. However, Bharara tweeted in March that was fired after he refused to voluntarily step down.
Weingarten has been a persistent critic of Trump and often has leaped to conclusions about him based on the latest news. In a tweet last month, she said he was responsible for a rise in anti-Semitic incidents reported by the Anti-Defamation League, a claim the ADL itself did not make. During the election, she asserted that Trump was responsible for a rise in bullying incidents at schools, based a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center despite the report’s authors saying their information was not scientific.
The union leader was a major supporter of Clinton’s presidential bid and had the AFT work closely with her campaign.
