Posted on 06/16/2019 8:57:49 AM PDT by Skylar
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said the impeachment of President Donald Trump is "absolutely" warranted in an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo on Thursday. McCabe denounced Trump, saying there is a difference between taking information acquired "illegally" from "representatives" of a hostile foreign government while defending Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, as CNN's Chris Cuomo put it, "paying Russians for information to amass a dossier."
"Does the argument that, yes, OK, you shouldn't have Russians giving you anything and you shouldn't have been paying Russians for information to amass a dossier the way Clinton did -- do you see these as analogs?" Cuomo asked McCabe.
"Not at all, Chris. There's no equivalence between those two examples," McCabe responded. "To openly invite foreign intelligence officers, representatives from a hostile foreign government to steal information, to acquire opposition research in anyway, in any illegal way that they might do that and to present it to you is one thing."
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So it`s LEGAL to PAY for Foreign influence but ILLEGAL to listen to any non-citizen gossip to you !?
Look! It’s a mental pretzel!
-PJ
McCain is dead, so I bequeath the term “McTurd” to McCabe.
Shut up McTurd. You’re going to prison.
So it is OK to use a foreign agent’s information as long as you go through a middleman so as to get plausible deniability.
It’s just illegal to read it, apparently.
Yeah tell that to the jail guards
The left is slowly realizing Trump trolled them into agreeing with him on Hillary Clinton and the illegal origins of the Mueller investigation.
It’s so infuriating that this ass is still free and not in jail. I guess criminal referrals from the IG are worthless.
Coming attractions for the rest I’m sure...
No don’t you see it makes perfect sense - if you hire a foreign spy agency to do your dirty work it’s perfectly legal because they’re working in your interests. But if that same foreign spy agency gives you information than they’re trying to influence you!
No... wait.. they’re violating campaign finance law with illegal donations.. yeah, that’s the ticket.
+1
5.56mm
Whatever it takes to defeat those infernal republicans!!
Time to take out the trash
They do appear to be worthless and McCabe certainly doesn’t seen concerned or he would keep his trap shut. The same goes for the pantsuit princess. She knew she was in the clear long before Comey’s announcement.
It is truly remarkable how the media and the Left have pulled this off again, starting with a reliable old standby, George Stephanopoulos. Why the President would grant an ‘interview’ with him - an operative of one his chief political opponents - is beyond me. It is quite clear that the narrative in the aftermath, even competing news organizations seemingly promoting their competition in order to run with it, that this was pre-planned and orchestrated - the interview was designed to get the President to comment on foreign interference in the election, and then portray it no matter the context as him welcoming foreign governments interfering in our elections to create another artificial and massive scandal to ‘prove’ the President’s corruption - and the narrative is and will be that while some of the things that went on the with Steele document may have been questionable, “the President has already admitted to far worse himself” - therefore, this whole thing was planned to try to neutralize any negative blowback from the results of the current investigation into the origins of the bogus Russian Collusion investigation.
The President should have never granted an interview with the likes of Stephanopoulos. He has been the ring leader of starting things like this before - such as in 2012 where he started the narrative that Republicans planned to ban all birth control if they won.
Sedition is still illegal.
Up is down and down is up. What is good is bad and what is bad is good. Welcome to the liberals modern world.
If we do it for the 'right reasons and the right side' it's OK, if the bad guys do it, it is jail time.
I'm starting to believe that this culture of corruption is rampant through both the fbi and the doj, top to bottom.
I think the exception is the 'clean' agent and they are staying silent to protect their own pension.
Hannity is full of shit with his 99.9% statement about the holiness of the fbi, because his mother was a jail keeper and his cousin was a fbi agent.
When we will get justice?
And if all this is just fine and dandy, legally speaking, McCabe, why don’t you lot just come clean about what you’ve been up to....?
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