text: Eight more something.  Months maybe even weeks.  Why fire Comey now?  Why haven't the tax returns been released?  Trump knows that the political fallout for firing Comey mid-investigation would be severe.   Clearly he'd rather suffer that than whatever result is pending from the investigation.  But it will all come out anyway.  Trump has no respect for process; he thinks he can master it, but it will soon master him.