Trump was angry that Comey wouldn't commit to being a soldier for Trump and was also asking for more support, money and agents, to investigate the Trump/Russia connections, so he asked his toady, Jeff Sessions, to find a legally defensible reason to dump Comey. Sessions, despite the fact that he had supposedly recused himself from the Trump/Russia investigation, sat down with the newly appointed second in command, Rosenstein, to write a letter, at Trump's behest, that might support firing Comey. So between the two of them they wrote a letter that pointed out that Comey had violated norms when he publicly revealed details of investigations into Hillary Clinton's email activity.
That ended up being the first public reason for Trump firing Comey, without warning, without consultation. Naturally anyone who has paid even cursory attention during the past two years knows that Trump celebrated Comey's investigation and handling of Clinton's emails so there were immediately questions about the justification. It hasn't even been 24 hours since Comey found out that he was canned. Typically for Trump, Comey wasn't even in DC when he found out he was canned. But Trump's occasional spokesperson, Sarah Huckabee Sanders (who didn't fall far at all from that parental tree) declared, "I think also having a letter like the one that he (Trump) received, and having that conversation (with Rosenstein),..." showed that there was cause to fire Comey. Of course that line of bull pokey completely ignores the fact that Trump had asked them to write the letter fewer than 24 hours before that. It was not as if Sessions and Rosenstein had been deeply concerned prior to Trump's request.
This takes us very far through the looking glass in to an alternate reality. From all appearances, Trump still thinks he is on Celebrity Apprentice.
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