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Virginia GOP Needles McCabe's Wife After He Steps Down From FBI
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Caitlin MacNeal | January 30, 2018 12:57 pm
After FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe announced Monday that he would leave the bureau, the Virginia Republican Party pounced on the opportunity to remind everyone that McCabes wife lost her 2015 race for a state senate seat.
Link to tweet
The tweet noting that Jill McCabe lost the race calls to mind President Donald Trumps reported comment to Andrew McCabe when James Comey was allowed to fly on an FBI plane after he was fired as director of the bureau. Trump blasted McCabe over the flight and told him to ask his wife what it feels like to be a loser, per NBC News.
Jill McCabes Democratic campaign for public office and a campaign contribution from former Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffes super PAC, have played a big role in the Trump administrations pressure campaign to oust Andrew McCabe. Trump has publicly chastised the FBI official over his wifes ties to Democrats, and the White House reportedly pressured FBI Director Christopher Wray to fire McCabe.
McCabe was expected to leave the FBI, but not until March, when he will be eligible for his pension. His early departure appears to be linked to a forthcoming report from the Justice Department inspector general looking at the FBIs probes into Hillary Clinton and the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, as the New York Times and CNN both reported. Wray reportedly gave McCabe the choice of taking on a different position within the FBI or leaving.
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Virginia GOP Needles McCabe's Wife After He Steps Down From FBI (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2018
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Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)1. Did that author graduate from high school?
The tweet sounds like something from a mean girl in high school.
CurtEastPoint
(18,647 posts)4. They are a nasty lot. Vindictive AND stupid.
JI7
(89,251 posts)2. Just a bunch of ignorant bullies. Notice they target the woman also
And who the fuck is the governor of Virginia ? And the US senators ?
This is like democrats bragging about some state seat they might have in Utah .
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. This is the VA GOP that just got severely shellacked in November?
Who the hell cares what those morons say?
hurple
(1,306 posts)5. Seriously?
Is this what we've come to?
Really?
rickford66
(5,523 posts)6. McCabe is still a witness.
bluestarone
(16,968 posts)7. worthless fucking bunch
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)8. "Needles"? Trump "Needled" news anchors today as well.
The word they're avoiding is "insulted". Maybe "bullied".