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He should have responded that his wife felt like the USFL after its court trial.

 

I know that this will disturb all your happy wet dreams about Wray finding something and immediately firing McCabe, but this is from an actual reporter for the NYT, who covers the FBI and national security.



It may be true that there was something found that was a fireable offense, and it may not... but you've been blowing that horn all day, and it isn't necessarily so.

 

And anyone that thinks he's not going to have an opinion on the pick hasn't been paying attention

 

Definitely NOT a denial.

 

If you are an alien observing this country from above --- with absolutely no affiliation toward anything other than your home planet --- this is what you have gathered over the past few years.

List of entities who most want America to fail:

1. GOP (if a Dem is in White House)
1. Dems (if GOP is in White House)
3. Russia

 

This is totally normal!

 

What the surprise resignation of the deputy FBI director tells us about Trump - CNNPolitics

The surprise resignation of deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe on Monday is simply the latest evidence that President Donald Trump not only expects total loyalty from his Justice Department but suspects anyone who doesn't show that fealty may be part of some sort of anti-Trump "deep state" conspiracy.
Doubt it? Remember what, exactly, McCabe did that drew Trump's ire initially: His wife ran for office in Virginia.
Back in 2015, McCabe's wife, Jill, ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Virginia state senate. A PAC affiliated with then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe moved almost $500,000 to her campaign.
That was enough for Trump, beginning in July 2017, to see a conspiracy at work:

• "Problem is that the acting head of the FBI & the person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from H for wife!," tweeted Trump on July 25.
• The following day, he tweeted this: "Why didn't A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got big dollars ($700,000) for his wife's political run from Hillary Clinton and her representatives. Drain the Swamp!"
• Two days before Christmas last year, Trump was back at it. "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?" he tweeted.
• Trump wasn't done. "FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go?!!!" he tweeted later on December 23.
• Finally, on Christmas Eve, Trump quoted Fox News Channel on McCabe: ".@FoxNews-FBI's Andrew McCabe, 'in addition to his wife getting all of this money from M (Clinton Puppet), he was using, allegedly, his FBI Official Email Account to promote her campaign. You obviously cannot do this. These were the people who were investigating Hillary Clinton.'"

WH: Trump played no role in McCabe leaving FBI 02:05
Earlier this month, The Washington Post reported that days after firing FBI Director James Comey, Trump met with McCabe at the White House and asked the acting director who he had voted for in the 2016 presidential race. (Trump has said he never asked McCabe about his vote.) That echoed congressional testimony from Comey in which he said Trump had asked him for total loyalty during a meeting early in his presidency.
On Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said that "the President stands by his previous comments," adding: "The President wasn't part of this decision-making process" that led to McCabe's removal. (Ask yourself whether, based on Trump's tweets, the FBI knew where the President stood on McCabe. Right. Thought so.)

 

I had a problem with it because it came on the heels of the revelation that she covered up for an alleged sexual harasser on her '08 campaign rather than get to the bottom of the situation. All she did was feed into the Trumpers' argument that the Dems are hypocrites. Not a good look, but then, we know what a team player Hillary is, right?

 

@YankeeFan, do you accept the conclusions drawn by the NSA, the FBI, the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, all of whom have said Russia directed an influence campaign designed to interfere in the election?

 

Alex Jones. JFC.

This is insane. I mean literally insane.

 

When did you stop beating your wife?

Cmon, aren’t sock puppets usually trolls?