McCabe ---Trying to raise $150k -- hit over $100k within three hours.

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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
‏Verified account @maddow
54m54 minutes ago

If McCabe keeps raising money this fast, he should probably run for something. Trying to raise $150k -- hit over $100k within three hours.

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Wenlaw
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‏ @Boujie88
52m52 minutes ago
Replying to @maddow

I donated and I’m a Canadian. 🇨🇦
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Kendra Petrichor
‏ @kikuandjuju
50m50 minutes ago

Thank you, Wenlaw! I take back most of the not-nice things I said about Rob Ford. 🇨🇦
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TreasonWeasle
‏ @TreasonWeasle
33m33 minutes ago

I'm also from Canada. Don't worry, you were right about Rob Ford.

[elleng]

1. Great news!

[procon]

2. Now: $167,060 of $250,000 goal Raised by 4,092 people in 4 hours!

They raised the goal, but he'll probably blow through that petty quickly. Good for him.

[Leghorn21]

3. WHO LOVES YA, BABY!!!? what a day to be alive. !!!!! nt

[avebury]

4. Now at $180,966 of $250,000 goal. nt

[poboy2]

5. r'd $183,801 of $250,000 goal

$183,801 of $250,000 goal

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. Isn't he a republican?

[BigmanPigman]

7. Yes.

[pnwmom]

8. A Republican who refused to tell Trump who he voted for for President

(probably no one) and whose wife was a Democrat who received funds from a Democratic pac run by Gov. McAuliffe -- so DT distrusted him from the very beginning.

[shanny]

23. um, so?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

29. He seems like a lovely human being. I still don't want to encourage him to run for office.

Because even lovely human being republicans caucus and mostly vote with the majority of the rest of republicans, who are pig fucking assholes.

Make sense?

[shanny]

37. Kinda.

But I think that we need a functioning opposition, not the a$$hol-ish ilk of the current R party....somebody's gonna have to do it, so why not some who have been subjected to their hyper-partisan BS?

[meadowlark5]

26. He seemed like as honorable a public servant as he could be

and that is what probably got him fired. He was trying to do right by the law and American people and not lie and distort for Trump. His loyalty was not with Trump but to the law he was hired to uphold. That isn't a good Trump toady.

[avebury]

9. $203,305.00 now. nt

[JI7]

10. I don't think he should have been fired but why doesn't he pay his own legal bills ?

[herding cats]

11. The same reason he just bumped the goal up to $250k

Because people are willing to pay it?

[JI7]

12. Yeah, i get that and usually wouldn't care

Other than the fact him and comey gave in to right wing pressure to go after Clinton.

[procon]

14. Few people are wealthy enough to afford the specialized lawyers he needs.

Trump took both his job and his pension, so he has no source of income. Surely, you already knew that, so why criticise the folks who are supporting his legal defense fund?

[cwydro]

16. He is a millionaire.

Screw him and Comey.

[tblue37]

18. Not quite true, since his wife is a doctor, so they do have income. Still, his

legal bills will be a real burden.

[Adrahil]

30. Dude was on a GS salary...

Which at his level Would not be bad, but probably doesnt have a quarter million laying around to pay lawyers. No one is forced to donate.

[Danascot]

13. Now $222,263 7:34 EST

nt

[cwydro]

15. This guy is a millionaire several times over.

For what is this legal defense fund?

Has he been charged with something?

[Marie Marie]

17. That is my question...

what is this fund for?

[tblue37]

20. He is probably going to sue for unlawful dismissal and to get his pension

reinstated.

[Marie Marie]

21. That is what I was hoping.

And I hope he wins.

[tblue37]

22. I also hope this is the sort of suit that involves depositions. nt

[exboyfil]

32. Bingo

It is good he has a war chest. It does appear that normal process in this matter was not followed. It would be interesting to see if the IG was unduly pressured.

[LiberalArkie]

24. Probably to show people power. It shakes up politicians.

[elfin]

31. Not on the salary of an FBI agent

Unless he inherited or married into a bundle.

[madaboutharry]

35. FBI agents do not become millionaires

Why would you think he's a millionaire? A senior agent with a GS-15 makes about $130,000 a year. That is toward the end of their career. That doesn't make you a millionaire several times over, not even once.

[Cha]

19. How many are

Democrats, I wonder?

[Kurt V.]

27. 50/50?

[Honeycombe8]

25. Wow! Yowza yowza yowza! nt

[TheOther95Percent]

28. He made his goal. Now at $252K.

A lot of Anonymous contributions and relatively small dollar value donations. More than 6100 donors.

[catbyte]

33. It's up to $271, 543 as of 9:15 PM DST.

[madaboutharry]

34. Almost $290,000 in 7 hours.

At the bottom of the gofundme page he writes the money will only be used for legal fees and anything left over will be given to charity. He does seem like an honorable man.

[Demovictory9]

36. almost at 300K

[Rhiannon12866]

38. At this hour: $361,598 of $250,000 goal