Former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe
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In the days after Comey’s impeachment in 2017, McCabe allegedly thought President Trump’s decision to impeach the FBI director was problematic and, as the agency’s then acting director, instructed his team to open a criminal case. , according to an excerpt adapted from CNN legal analyst Jeffery Toobin’s book, “True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Donald Trump Investigation.”
Rod Rosenstein
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McCabe, fearing it would not last at the agency given the tumultuousness of the moment, acted to preserve Comey’s memoranda detailing his conversations with Trump and other related documents about the FBI’s internal system, thus ensuring that they could not be destroyed, according to CNN.
Other officials sent documents, including memoranda, to remote locations across the FBI, according to CNN, with the goal of preserving them for sharing at a later date.
McCabe and other FBI officials’ move to preserve the evidence of the investigation came when the White House frequently denied in the course of the Mueller investigation that Trump had ever seriously considered ordering the former Attorney General Jeff Sessions
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Trump frequently denounced McCabe and other top FBI officials on Twitter before McCabe was fired from the office in 2018, days before he would have been eligible to collect his entire early pension.
“Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for FBI workers: a great day for democracy,” he wrote at the time of McCabe’s expulsion.
Russia’s Mueller-led investigation resulted in charges against numerous Trump allies for a variety of crimes ranging from lying to investigators to bank and tax fraud. The President himself was never formally charged with a crime.
In the months after McCabe’s firing, the Justice Department announced an investigation into whether or not he lied during interviews with investigators about the disclosures to the media. The department ultimately decided not to charge him with a crime.
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