Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor and the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, told her former colleagues in an email that her sudden firing should “fuel the fire” of their work fighting abuses of power.

Comey delivered a scathing rebuke of the Trump administration just one day after her abrupt dismissal from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan. The post Fired Epstein Prosecutor Maurene Comey Unloads in Blistering Farewell Note to Colleagues: ‘Fear Is the Tool of a Tyrant’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Former deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo discusses Judge James Boasberg’s comments about President Donald Trump and the firing of Maurene Comey on ‘The Story.’

“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain,” Comey said in the note, which was obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday. “Do not let that happen. Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.”

The Justice Department ousted Maurene Comey, the daughter of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey.

President Trump is blasting some of his own supporters for continuing to discuss Jeffrey Epstein and the sex trafficking investigation, saying, "it's all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats and some stupid Republicans,

Trump, members of his administration and conservative influencers have long spread unsubstantiated claims surrounding Epstein.