Andrew McCabe won back his pension:

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

[OnDoutside]

1. Great for him

[secondwind]

2. Good news ....

He earned it.

[Red Mountain]

3. Good to hear

Other lifetime civil service folks please take note. You are valued.

[marble falls]

4. With interest, too and with his legal costs covered, I hope!

[AngryOldDem]

55. And cufflinks!

The parting gift retirees get.

[AmBlue]

5. GLAD to hear this!!

[meadowlander]

6. Hooray! And now our tax dollars get to pay out his wrongful termination settlement too!

Thanks Trump!

[demmiblue]

7. NYT: F.B.I. Official Fired Under Trump Wins Back His Pension

WASHINGTON — Hours before he was scheduled to retire in 2018, Andrew G. McCabe, then the F.B.I.’s deputy director, was fired by the Justice Department, depriving him of his pension and prompting cheers from President Donald J. Trump, who had been hounding him over his role in the Russia investigation.

On Thursday, the department reversed Mr. McCabe’s firing, settling a lawsuit he filed asserting that he was dismissed for political reasons. Under the settlement, Mr. McCabe, 53, will be able to officially retire, receive his pension and other benefits, and get about $200,000 in missed pension payments.

In addition, the department agreed to expunge any mention of his firing from F.B.I. personnel records. The agreement even made clear that he would receive the cuff links given to senior executives and a plaque with his mounted F.B.I. credentials and badge.

The Justice Department did not admit any wrongdoing. But the settlement amounted to a rejection by the Biden administration of how Mr. McCabe’s case had been handled under Mr. Trump, who perceived Mr. McCabe as one of his so-called deep-state enemies and repeatedly attacked him. A notice of the lawsuit’s dismissal was also filed in federal court.

“Politics should never play a role in the fair administration of justice and Civil Service personnel decisions,” Mr. McCabe said in a statement. “I hope that this result encourages the men and women of the F.B.I. to continue to protect the American people by standing up for the truth and doing their jobs without fear of political retaliation.”

Mr. McCabe thanked his lawyers at the firm of Arnold & Porter, who will receive more than $500,000 in legal fees paid by the government. The firm intends to donate the money to its foundation, which provides scholarships to minority law students, among other things.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/us/politics/andrew-mccabe-trump-fired-pension.html

[Submariner]

20. That $500,000 in legal fees should be deducted from Trump's pension

or have the racist pigs ex-First Escort Melania and Step-daughter Ivanka, with their matching implants, do lap dances for cash at MAGAnazi rallies to pay back the government.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

28. Yes sir. Maybe something for the DOJ to look at as well as all else they are correcting.

Herr owes this money to us.

[COL Mustard]

38. Eeeeeewwwwwwww

Why would you want to inflict that on poor, innocent Magats? Haven't they suffered enough????

[lagomorph777]

57. No, in fact I think Trump himself should do the lap dances.

MAGATs would pay bigly for that.

[COL Mustard]

58. You Can Have My Bagel Now

I just lost all semblance of appetite. When I starve to death, it'll be on you!!!

[lagomorph777]

59. Sorry!

But at least I didn't mention his golden showers rant.

[whathehell]

64. " or have the racist pigs ex- first..blah, blah, blah"..How 'bout we confine

our prescriptions to " the racist pig" himself, rather than default to ugly misogynist "suggestions"?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

26. Thank you DOJ, Judge Garland...and anyone else involved in undoing another injustice.

And the law firm is donating half a million in legal fees recovered for a fund for minority law school students.

👏 👏

How pro-democracy people do it.

[Dunsterville]

41. NYT skews right again

"...prompting cheers from President Donald J. Trump, who had been hounding him over his role in the Russia investigation. "

IIRC, The Biggest Loser didn't just hound him on Twitter, he also pressured the FBI and the DOJ to fire McCabe before he could be fully vested.

Whatta loser!

[BigmanPigman]

9. Ha ha! Fuck you tRump!!!!!

[Cha]

32. Ha! That was my first thought!

Link to tweet

[rurallib]

37. if only he had to pay some of that settlement

[liberalla]

10. Glad to hear this. It was earned and deserved.

Fuckin petty, spiteful, hateful drump is such an asshole.

[OAITW r.2.0]

29. Worth repeating......so much truth in one simple sentence.

"Fuckin petty, spiteful, hateful drump is such an asshole."

[usaf-vet]

71. So turn about fair play. Trump reportly "took in 71 Million thru the hotel. He did that in four....

.... let take the 71 million back as ill-gotten gains.

let's give the whiner in chief something NEW and real to whine about.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. Good. The timing of his firing was a damned sleazy move. nt

[Celerity]

12. good nt

[Hortensis]

13. I'm sorry to hear it. McCabe committed his crimes/severe ethical breaches

while sabotaging the Democratic candidates/party during the 2016 election. Two investigations established wrongdoing that justified bringing criminal charges if desired. The president McCabe helped elect and his DoJ didn't desire.

He later offended tRump, triggering his trademark "you're fired!" in a classic falling out among criminals.

[Raine1967]

27. You post about a forgotten part if this tale.

That story is lost among the deluge of TFG shatting on our democracy.

I'd rather he and his family get the pension than not.

I'd also like to never hear from him again.

[Hortensis]

33. He helped put tRump in the WH, Pubs in control of congress

and more states, RW extremists in control of the high court, children tormented and permanently harmed, hundreds of thousands dead overseas, over a million dead from Covid in our nation alone, the kleptpocrats he likely did this for doubling their wealth in just the last year. And we're in grave risk of falling to a tRump dictatorship. That's just a fraction of what he brought on when he betrayed his nation and his oath as deputy director of the FBI.

I'd like to not hear from him again after he was hit by a runaway truck and sent to live out his broken life in a nursing care facility, Medicaid-funded.

[DENVERPOPS]

65. Thank you Hortensis for some sanity

Reading through all these comments of support for McCabe was spinning my head. And Comey.

I read, and re-read everything and was saying WTF ??????????

These were some really horrific men, who did some seriously and despicably bad things for the Republicans and Trump.
They, and countless others, (who were entrusted to protect our Country), were major influences in attempts to bring down our country.

Then they piss off Trump, (who, in turn, throws them under the bus) and we should elevate them to "Hero Class One", give them all of their benefits and let them ride off in the sunset with their money, completely un-scathed for their contributions to tearing down this country and Democracy/??????????????????????????????

I hope that this isn't what we see throughout the future prosecutions of all the individuals who helped mastermind and deliver the near overthrowing of our government and Democracy. A "pat on the back", a "that's ok", and "go live your life in peace and harmony", with all your benefits, money earned, and no penalty.

[Hortensis]

68. I just hope neither runs for the senate or, god forbid,

the presidency, on an anti-tRump ticket. Or maybe anti-Manchin?

Might as well laugh. It lessens stress, makes the timid brave, and even boosts the immune system.

[DENVERPOPS]

70. My news reading, for five years (actually 42 years to be exact)

has resulted in me saying daily: They Can't Do That, NO shit, WASF, Has everyone gone insane, has everyone swallowed the Kool-Aid, That's against the law, F..Me, etc etc etc

There are tons of Republican politicians and voters, whose reality, a rational thought?, and logic are like that found in Alice and Wonderland.

For awhile in the Early 80's, I observed what they were doing, and would think: Am I going crazy, or are they.......

Any way, thx for your input, it refresh's Me and restores may faith that there is someone out there who has a brain and the power of observation when viewing the true reality.....

[Hortensis]

73. :) Same here, same here.

I'm more brave some days and more scared others. Nothing new for these days. We desperately need all the good sense we can get.

[OAITW r.2.0]

34. If you have Netflix, I recommend "The Comey Rule."

I would be interested in how you viewed McCabe as he was portrayed in movie, Comey comes across as a naive boy-scout - totally unprepared to deal with a corrupt/criminal President (btw, Brendan Gleason's portrayed captures Trump as I see him.); McCabe was a righteous "2nd stringer" - better at policy/strategy then being the front line guy. and Rosen was a snake.

It helped add context to the whole end of the Trump Presidency.

[Hortensis]

39. Comey was an extremely sophisticated political operative and

extremely powerful man, as all FBI directors are. They operate in an intensely political context, a job requirement.

Plus, not that Comey needed it, but his colleagues in the DoJ and literally thousands of colleagues across the nation were repeatedly shocked by his behaviors and tried to talk him out of them. His close colleagues first advised him personally when an action was extremely unethical and ill advised, and then later public letters were signed by hundreds of judges, AGs, legal scholars, etc, etc.

Those actions include a long pattern of conducting public operations continuously detrimental to Democrats, Hillary especiallly, and beneficial to the Repubicans, including tRump especially. They include having the NYT publish a lengthy summary of the tRump-Russia investigation a week before the election which implied it had found nothing and was wrapping up, when the opposite was the case. We all watched this.

Comey had several years of his appointment left, and McCabe was widely considered to be his probable successor. Both committed career suicide that fall before election day by committing such blatantly unethical acts that they required (limited) investigation. tRump's gratitude did not survive their refusal to function as his personal hit men. No investigation into what really happened or why and with whom, and all the rest that what was not public, has been conducted.

[OAITW r.2.0]

40. In Hindsight I wish Obama and Biden had considered the

FBI/DOJ personnel that would have been better prepared to engage with the Trump Incoming administration.

[Hortensis]

42. The nation was already simmering, with so many big lies about

Obama's treason, election theft, and so on, that I remember discussion that Obama didn't dare attack the Republican subversion head on. The choice was to try to get the nation safely through the election and transfer of power, without blowing up.

I doubt most even in national government quite realized how deep RW corruption already extended and how committed they already were to a government takeover. Or perhaps just not how fast its pace was speeding up. Trump wasn't the RW powers' choice, he was their fanatic, out of control base's, but they made the best of him and had to both set and put out a lot of fires to get him elected. And that's where Comey, and a lot of others, came in. Including Russia.

[OAITW r.2.0]

43. This has been the trajectory of the GOP since. at least the 70's.

They kicked the liberals and moderates out of the Party and started the move to Trumpublicanism.

[Hortensis]

52. Yes. Although I'm pretty sure their donor classes and the

religious right didn't have HIM in mind when they set out to improve their control of the planet's most productive and profitable nation. They wanted to move the nation right and purge the GOP of the traditional conservative values that impeded their control of the planet's most productive and profitable nation. They didn't realize how much those values controlled the mob.

"What a mess." ~ Charles Koch

[DENVERPOPS]

67. Again, thank you Hortensis

Like my comment to you on your other posting.

I have thought, since right after the election, that the single most important thing that someone did to give the election to Trump, was done when Comey literally and intentionally made up the bullshit about Hillary's emails and spread that info across the nation.
(Not a whole lot different from Colin Powell, knowingly lying about weed sprayers being weapons of mass destruction to get the votes for Cheney/Rumsfeld to go to war against IRAQ purely for oil profiteering....)

McCabe, Comey, and countless others should be serving sentences for Sedition and Treason. They should be found guilty on many counts, for their contributions to the unlawful attempted Sedition and Coup of our nation and the Constitution.

[Hortensis]

69. Same here, DenverPops. We need to improve our laws to meet this new level,

and sheer scope, of lawlessness and villainy among many of the powerful. It's encouraging, though, to realize that for 200 years the old ones did well enough, what's happening now mostly unthinkable.

[obamanut2012]

54. He legally earned his pension

It was illegally taken away from him.

We either support workers' rights or we don't.

[Hortensis]

60. Now, that's a real point. He's scum but was fired hours before vesting

out of vindictiveness for refusing to serve tRump-the-president instead of whoever he was allied with.

But the higher the official, the bigger the harm and betrayal, to our entire nation in McCabe's case. Including to Democrats, who had been in line to sweep the 2016 election before the Hillary-the-evil-witch lies got traction. In a less dyfunctionally corrupted nation McCabe would be receiving his pension in prison.

Opposing tRump doesn't somehow magicaly morph traitors into heroes for me.

[niyad]

14. Good. I had actually been wondering about it a few days ago. Too bad that we

cannot get the lawyers' fees and penalties out of the f'n, murdering, orange traitor**'s accounts. The debt is rightfully his.

[Picaro]

15. 2 Thumbs up on this one

This was so blatant. He did it because he could. A grotesque abuse of presidential power. Really another impeachable offense. But it vanished under the greater crimes.

[Wounded Bear]

16. I wish we could sue trump for wrongful termination...

to reimburse the gov't for the legal actions.

[NH Ethylene]

17. That is great! What a sickening injustice that was. n/t

[ARPad95]

18. Good for Andrew McCabe! It was disgusting what the Dumpster did to him.

[PatSeg]

19. That is really good news

Trump's vindictive actions are absolutely appalling.

[gldstwmn]

21. Good. I like Andrew McCabe.

He earned his pension.

[LakeArenal]

22. Yay for the USA. Thank you McCabe for perseverance.

[badhair77]

23. Good. Now let's settle some more scores with trump.

[AllaN01Bear]

24. eggscllent.

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[UTUSN]

25. K&R

[Cha]

30. Rt TY

[BobTheSubgenius]

31. I thought that was one of the most blatant examples of a supposedly grown man...

... bringing kindergarten into the workplace. That it was "the leader of the free world" takes it from ridiculous all the way to reprehensible.

I hope it's backdated.

[True Blue American]

50. It is

By $200,000!

[BobTheSubgenius]

72. Excellent news!

Thank you.

[2Gingersnaps]

35. Al Capone tried to destroy Elliot Ness, neuter the FBI, and corrupt the DOJ!

Congrats Mr. McCabe! Now the FBI and DOJ need a top down disinfectant/power wash. Rod Rosenstein sure protected his pension. Coward. And let's face it, the FBI has always been conservative, J Edgar Hoover illegally made war on the actual real radical left way back when, which is why it no longer exists in this nation. But outside of Hoover, they were real conservatives, not bat shit crazy demagogues. When you are too corrupt for Jeff Sessions, oi.

[OAITW r.2.0]

36. Justice delivered,

Another action of Trump's dirty dealings.....rectified.

[Mr. Ected]

44. This is exactly why I beseech the Gods of Fairness

To strip one Donald J Trump bare of every single penny to his name.

[monkeyman1]

45. donny plump lost again !what a 100 time loser !!! god ,what a joke !

[Fla Dem]

46. YES!!!

[MustLoveBeagles]

47. K&R

[ShazamIam]

48. I am really happy to hear that.

[True Blue American]

49. You can also blame Jeff Sessions

Who could have waited 24 hours. Pure vindictive of him!

BTW, where is Sessions now? And where is orange hair? Beat out by 70 thousand votes and electoral landslide by Sleepy Joe!

[W_HAMILTON]

51. I didn't realize Wray played such a huge part in his firing.

Even more reason that Wray should be fired as well. Don't mistake him for one of the "good" ones. He'll Comey us the first chance he gets. Get someone in there that is honorable and trustworthy.

[AngryOldDem]

53. Another bill comes due for Trump's petulant bullshit.

I think it’s funny that McCabe is even getting his retirement cufflinks.

Good for him — man is entitled to every last cent.

[lagomorph777]

56. A beautiful FUCK YOU to Trump

[The Jungle 1]

61. Trump is a richard cranium

[GoodRaisin]

62. Good!

And that sends a big “F U” to Trump.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

63. Good news, well deserved

like him, interesting person, TFG is so low to try to do this.

[Jakes Progress]

66. Being nasty and mean is a requirement in republican party.

[Saoirse9]

74. With back pay

This made me happy today.

[Patton French]

75. Good for him! (n/t)