Posted on 03/17/2018 10:56:07 AM PDT by yoe
Republican Rep. Charlie Dent (Pa.) said Saturday that the firing of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe on Friday looked to be a "vindictive" move by the president.
In an interview with CNN, Dent said that while he would wait for the inspector general's report to judge McCabe, his firing looked like retribution from the White House.
"This firing looks a bit forced, a bit rushed. Candidly, it looks like retribution and a bit vindictive," Dent said. "And I think it's unfortunate. The man said he's resigning, you know, and on a Friday night before his 50th birthday he's fired to take away his pension? I don't like the optics of this, I really don't."
Dent added that he believed Attorney General Jeff Sessions was "browbeaten" into firing McCabe Friday night after weeks of public humiliation from President Trump.
"It looks like the attorney general may have been browbeaten into this, he's been publicly humiliated and shamed by the president on multiple occasions, and I just don't think this bodes well."
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Under current law, if he is innocent, this decision is absolute rubbish and he will be reinstated with full pension benefits. The media grandstanding, notwithstanding.
He is a federal employee, it is likely, even if he is guilty, he gets his pension. They are impossible to fire, and impossible to sanction.
But look at Mike Flynn, it was McCabe the scumbag who said F___ Flynn, and what did FLynn do, he lied to the FBI? Even FBI agent Strozk said he didn’t lie. And Sally Yates went after Flynn with the Logan Act, which has never been used in two hundred years, and Mueller threatened Flynn’s son. Well McCabe lied to the FBI as well, why isn’t he indicted?
I am sick of their hypocrisy and the two forms of justice.
It might look like that, BUT it isn’t, moron.
CAUTION: RMSP member
https://republicanmainstreet.org/members/
http://www.dentforcongress.com (It’s a blank page.. like his brain)
“GOP lawmaker: McCabe’s firing ‘looks like retribution and a bit vindictive’”
And what does the relentless hunting of Trump and his associates for unspecified crimes look like?
Dent knows better.
The FBI Office of Personal Responsibility (OPR) issued a rare
reccomendation that McCabe be fired based on a report
the IG provided.
Thank God Dent is retiring.
Yes they do and our party races to the camera to kick other republicans under the bus.
Party of morons with spaghetti spines.
He should resign his seat for being too stupid and uninformed to serve.
Yep, and then it was Sessions, not the President that fired McCabe.
This guy IS a moron.
“Sessions was rushed”. First time I’ve seen those words together in a sentence. And McCabe as a victim. Is this even real?
Wray is weak. I understand he is a Bush guy.
Trump made a mistake with him.
True, they are far more comfortable being the yapping dogs at the heels of the dems.
And I more than likely will leave the party again in protest!
We just can’t win can we.
Trump didn’t have anything to do with this. Course our side always likes to play up to the media in hopes of not being hated.
You’ve answered your own question: because oftentimes there is no difference between the sides. Thus your response is perfectly normal.
It looks like Karma and Justice to me.
No one is talking about that...it’s full blown, TRUMP fired him...
Ahh, a McCain Stooge.
” Rushed”??
Good Lord.
My guess is because they buried and hid evidence, and continued to stonewall OIG and Congress. I bet new evidence is coming in even now.
I think there is a political / public awareness element involved too. The people are just now begining to openly question the narrative, and to see that the real meddling with the election was not for Trump, it was against him, and it was by the government in power.
That is a big deal, and it'll be wise (to say the least) to have evidence of that pretty well "lined up" and knowing there isn't some "evidence on the other side of the case" that will jeopardize the big reveal.
How many defendants do you think are involved? It's more than 20, that's for sure.
Plus, there are other things going on. Notice NK? Bigger than sinking Comey, Hillary and Obama. Lots happening. Lots.
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