Krauthammer: ‘Unpresidential’ for Trump to Threaten Comey Like a ‘Mafia Boss’

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KRAUTHAMMER: "Well, now we have a new rabbit to chase down another rabbit hole. This is as Amy says, self-inflicted. Who brought up the tapes? When you hear expires saying oh, this isn’t a threat, it’s just — I mean, what is it? All of a sudden you are raising something nobody had imagined. And saying you better watch out. That’s, you know, that’s unpresidential. Which is kind of a nice way of saying that that sounds more like a mafia boss than the president of a free republic. People say well what people like about trump is that he is unconventional. What unconventional means stepped outside of the bounds of the behavior that 40 more individuals have tried to stay within, starting with George Washington, tried to set an example of a certain protect at this Tuesday and dignity and to talk like well, you better watch out or you might get whacked by tapes, this is — self-inflicted and unnecessary. I agree. There was total grounds for getting rid of Comey. There was sympathy on both sides of the aisle for the mistakes he made and perhaps his unfitness for the job. But that would have made it relatively easy to get rid of them in a way to not stir this up firestorm. Then when it looks like it’s starting to damp down, start up with you better watch out or something might happen to you, I think is simply extending a story that is not going to help the president."