McCabe: 'I was fired because I opened a case against the president'

[riversedge]

McCabe: 'I was fired because I opened a case against the president'

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/17/mccabe-fired-trump-fbi-1173596


Updated 02/17/2019 09:25 PM EST


Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said he was ousted from the bureau in March 2018 because he opened two investigations into President Donald Trump 10 months earlier.

“I believe I was fired because I opened a case against the president of the United States,” McCabe told host Scott Pelley during an interview on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions dismissed McCabe — a little more than a day before he was set to formally retire — at, Sessions said, the recommendation of the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which cited findings from a report by the Justice Department’s inspector general.

The department watchdog concluded that McCabe inappropriately authorized the disclosure of information to a Wall Street Journal reporter about an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation, and lied about the leak to officials at DOJ.

Trump tweeted at the time that McCabe’s firing marked “a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI — A great day for Democracy.”


Reflecting on that pronouncement during his “60 Minutes” appearance, McCabe said: “The idea that this president would know what a great day for the FBI or a great day for democracy was is preposterous.”.....................

[Stuart G]

1. k and r

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Feeling sorry for Trump???? NOT!!!!

Trump is scared what those he fired, knows. He tries to silence them, that is more fire for Mueller and others within the FBI. Who is to say, there are not investigations we do not know anything about taking place? I sure hope there is, because the FBI do not like being maligned.

[empedocles]

3. Pretty direct statement on the 'obsruction' issue.