President Donald Trump attacked erstwhile FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and former FBI Director James Comey on Friday after the The law Department released a long-awaited report about McCabe’s conduct.
“He Pressed! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey,” the president tweeted. “McCabe is Comey!!”
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The The law Department’s watchdog issued a report that said McCabe misled investigators throughout his role in a news media disclosure.
The finding from the inspector loose led FBI disciplinary officials to recommend that McCabe be fired. Attorney Shared Jeff Sessions then fired McCabe, who had acted as interim FBI president after Trump fired Comey, two days before his retirement. Trump dashed Comey in May 2017.
McCabe has disputed the assessment of the watchdog. On Friday, he issued a point-by-point rejoinder to the report, saying that when he believed his answers to the inspector accustomed were misunderstood, he went back and tried to correct them.
McCabe’s solicitor said the inspector general unfairly tried to conclude its work once McCabe could retire. The statement also cited Comey’s “admittedly barely distinguishable” account of the events at the center of McCabe’s firing.
“Mr. McCabe’s recollection of confabulations he had with Director Comey about this issue is extremely brightly; Director Comey’s recollection is, by his own acknowledgment, not at all clear,” the lawyer said. “And yet two of the be of candor allegations are based on Director Comey’s admittedly vague and haphazard recollection of those discussions.”
Trump had already targeted Comey earlier Friday, as sends from the former FBI director’s memoir, due out Tuesday, started to make headlines.
The Associated Hug contributed to this report.