Trump and McCabe go to war
A new front opened in an old war Thursday as President Trump and former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe traded verbal blows about the feverish days following James Comey’s firing — and about FBI conduct more generally.
The conflict will strengthen the belief of Trump’s detractors that the president is unfit for office, even as his supporters will seize on McCabe’s comments to buttress their own allegations of anti-Trump bias at the intelligence agency.
The fuse has been lit by a forthcoming memoir from McCabe, “The Threat,” and an interview he has given to CBS’s “60 Minutes” to publicize it.
The journalist who conducted the interview, Scott Pelley, said on “CBS This Morning” Thursday that McCabe confirmed there had been discussions at the Justice Department about removing Trump under the 25th Amendment.
“The highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president,” Pelley said, referring to the period after Comey’s firing in May 2017.
The full “60 Minutes” interview with McCabe will air on Sunday.
Meanwhile, The Atlantic published an except from McCabe’s book Thursday in which he called Trump “a person who cannot be trusted” and “a deliberate liar.”
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