Donald Trump fired James Comey over eight years ago, and today he fired the ex-FBI Director’s daughter. In a move that seemed a long time coming due to POTUS’ ongoing immense dislike of Maurene Comey’s father,

Former federal prosecutor Maurene Comey sent an email Thursday to her former colleagues one day after being fired from the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, telling them that “fear is the tool of a tyrant.

It’s unclear if Comey’s firing is at all tied to the ongoing controversy over the Epstein files, and it comes as numerous DOJ staff have separately been fired or left the agency voluntarily, with Reuters reporting two-thirds of the staff tasked with defending the administration’s policies have quit.