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Trump escalated his assault on federal law enforcement agencies weekend while one of his attorneys argued that the controversial firing of a top FBI official was reason to end the Justice Department special counsels expansive Russia investigation.
After Attorney General Jeff Sessions acted late Friday night on Trumps publicly stated wishes to fire former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe just hours before he was set to retire with full benefits the president celebrated the ouster as a triumph that exposed tremendous leaking, lying and corruption throughout law enforcement.
The move emboldened McCabe, who said in a public statement that his dismissal was a deliberate effort to slander him and part of an ongoing war against the FBI and special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs probe of Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
Like former FBI director James B. Comey, who was fired by Trump last year, McCabe kept contemporaneous memos detailing his fraught conversations with the president, according to two people familiar with the records. The danger for Trump is that those memos could help corroborate McCabes witness testimony and become damaging evidence in Muellers investigation of whether Trump has sought to obstruct justice.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/after-mccabe-firing-trump-attacks-fbi-and-his-lawyer-says-russia-probe-must-end/2018/03/17/8250a7f6-29df-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html?utm_term=.60f7477bfef4&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
Well shit we better call it off then.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)I'm sure Mueller is collecting all those deranged tweets and placing them in the Obstruction of Justice file.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)story about Mr. McCabe being the Agent who busted the Russian Mafia in New York City. As per the story,McCabe chased this Mob outfit to their offices in Trump Tower. Noticed names of the persons busted by McCabe looked fimiliar to some of the names being toasted about in Mueller's investigations.
Someone mentioned a Trump comment this AM about nailing McCabe had to be taken out within ninety days. So Donnie the Deficient gets a two-fore.