The truth of the point made in this post at Talking Points Memo has been hovering out there for all to see these past few days, colored in by much circumstantial evidence, and now President Trump has admitted as much in an interview today: he fired Comey because Trump doesn't like the Russia inquiry. This doesn't mean there weren't other motivations behind the termination — Trump seems particularly aggrieved by Comey's suggestions that the FBI director's maneuvers around Hilary Clinton's emails might have affected the election in Trump's favor (thus removing some of the glory of Trump's glorious victory) — and it also doesn't prove that Trump himself has something to hide. But for purposes of establishing a public record of his lawlessness, it's enough that he's interfering with such a crucial investigation — an investigation that, at its heart, has to do with the possible subversion of our democracy by the Russian government. To interfere in such an investigation, to preemptively decide single-handedly that there's nothing to see here, even if the minimal explanation is that Trump is tired of his agenda being sidetracked by Russia talk, is deranged and contemptible behavior when the person doing the interfering is the president of the United States.