Posted on 12/23/2017 9:30:06 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
President Trump slammed the FBI's deputy director for donations to his wife's Virginia state Senate campaign, roughly an hour after it was reported Andrew McCabe would retire in early 2018
"How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin’ James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000 for wife’s campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?" Trump tweeted Saturday.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in
charge, along with leakin’ James Comey, of the Phony Hillary
Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted
emails) be given $700,000 for wife’s campaign by Clinton
Puppets during investigation?
9:27 PM - Dec 23, 2017
The Washington Post reported that McCabe was waiting to retire when he becomes fully eligible for pension benefits.
Trump took issue with this as well, tweeting minutes after his first tweet: "FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go?!!"
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing the clock
to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go?!!!
9:30 PM - Dec 23, 2017
McCabe has faced an onslaught of criticism from Republicans for alleged bias in the FBI. In addition to revelations that two top FBI staffers exchanged pro-Clinton, anti-Trump text messages, McCabe remains under investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general for how he handled the FBI's probe of Hillary Clinton's private email server.
That review was announced in May and stems from his wife Jill McCabe's campaign for a Virginia state senate seat in 2015. Her campaign received donations from former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe's super PAC, as well as the Democratic Party of Virginia. During that time, McCabe was running the FBI's Washington, D.C., field office, which was assisting the FBI's investigation into Clinton's email server.
FactCheck.org looked into Trump's tweets in July in July in which he charged McCabe’s wife received $700,000 in campaign donations from Clinton.
The nearly $675,000 was donated to McCabe's unsuccessful run in 2015. That money came from the Virginia Democratic Party and Common Good VA, the political action committee of McAuliffe, a longtime friend and supporter of both Hillary and Bill Clinton who is now the outgoing governor of Virginia.
The contributions didn’t come from Clinton or her campaign, and McCabe wasn’t “in charge” of the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s emails at the time of the donations, either.
According to FactCheck.org, not only is there a lack of evidence tying the donations to Clinton and thus to McCabe's campaign, but Jill McCabe had already lost the election by the time her husband assumed his role as deputy director in February 2016. It was in that role that he “assumed for the first time, an oversight role in the investigation into Secretary Clinton’s emails,” an FBI spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the story about the donations.
Regardless, the House Judiciary and Oversight committees both announced in late October they were opening new investigations into the FBI's handling of its probe into Clinton's email server, accusing the agency of letting the former secretary of state off easy.
Late Wednesday, committees' leadership asked McCabe and Attorney General Jeff Sessions that the former be available for an interview as early as Thursday. They also requested interviews with FBI chief of staff Jim Rybicki and Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer who traded anti-Trump text messages with a fellow member of the FBI, Peter Strzok, with whom she was working on Mueller's team.
Several Republicans have called for McCabe to be replaced or subpoenaed following the release of those text messages.
McCabe – who was ex-FBI Director James Comey's right-hand-man beginning in February 2016 until Trump abruptly fired Comey in May – was was grilled Thursday on Capitol Hill about his role in the FBI's Clinton investigation. Republicans were reportedly unhappy with McCabe's answers.
There appears to be a major shift in FBI leadership occurring under new Director Christopher Wray.
James Baker informed colleagues Wednesday that he was being "reassigned," a typical move when a new director comes in, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
Baker, who became general counsel under Comey, has come under scrutiny by congressional Republicans investigating whether he leaked information from the infamous Trump dossier, which contains unverified claims about Trump's deep ties to Russia.
"Wow, 'FBI lawyer James Baker reassigned,' according to @FoxNews," Trump said in a third tweet Saturday afternoon.
Comey lashed out at the drama unfurling at his former agency late Friday night.
"Sadly, we are now at a point in our political life when anyone can be attacked for partisan gain," Comey tweeted. "James Baker, who is stepping down as FBI General Counsel, served our country incredibly well for 25 years & deserves better. He is what we should all want our public servants to be."
I notice Fact Check didn’t state who was in charge.
McCabe=Swamp Thing=Prison
Fire this skank so he doesn’t get a pension. Then arrest him.
Just remember, Trump fired Comey when he was thousands of miles away and he certainly had Sessions secure all his records and files. Trumo probably has a lot of dirt on Comey already.
On one of the Fox News programs tonight they said that in Virginia a candidate gets to keep campaign contributions for personal use after the campaign is over. So this really was money straight into McCabe's pocket, i.e., a bribe.
instead of slamming him, how about firing him.
McCabe is retiring, ending his career. I wonder, was it the congressional investigation, or was it Mueller getting close to things
>>>served our country incredibly well for 25 years & deserves better<<<
Benedict Arnold was a Patriot, before he wasn’t.
From Hoover to Comey, the exception seems to be when the FBI is NOT found to meddling in politics.
“On one of the Fox News programs tonight they said that in Virginia a candidate gets to keep campaign contributions for personal use after the campaign is over. So this really was money straight into McCabe’s pocket, i.e., a bribe.”
Excellent point.
i agree - fire him and then go after him for the bribe.
Every one of these criminal seditionist traitors should be hanging from a rope after being given a fair trial. Nothing less. Merry Christmas .
Yahoo news was showing an AP article on this claiming Trump’s true tweet was false, something like Trump tweets false claims was the headline.
Need to take away the press and airwaves from the traitors.
I was wondering when Trump would get around to stomping on the snake McCabe.
2018 is looking to be a very good year.
It always seems like these guys resign, and then no one pursues prosecuting them for things that would land us peasants in jail. Almost like the mentality is that “He’s suffered enough by having to give up his position”, like he gave up being a member of the royal family or something.
Trump is forcing the MSM to cover McCabe even if they have to spin it as usual in the best possible light for the left.
Too bad, he can suffer the consequences. I’d go after him, if I had the evidence. I cannot believe how corrupt the FBI has become, as we are now seeing. Honestly, it’s a wonder the people haven’t just stormed the FBI’s building and started dragging people out to be tarred and feathered
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