Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe preached to choir, still looking to tie 72-year-old Donald Trump to the Kremlin. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a good case during the last presidential debate in Las Vegas, accusing Trump of being a “Putin puppet.” When she lost the election Nov. 4, 2016, Democrats and their media friends continued the narrative that Trump was owned-and-operated by the Kremlin. When Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey May 9, 2017, McCabe claims he opened up a counter-intelligence investigation on Trump to ascertain whether Trump (a) obstructed justice and (b) was working for, as Hillary said, for the Kremlin. McCabe found the perfect place on CNN to promote his new book, “The Threat: How the FBI Protects Americans in the Age of Terror and Trump.”
CNN host Anderson Cooper is one of the most biased anti-Trump journalists on the airwaves, working day-and-night to try-and-convict Trump of Russian collusion, the subject of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. But if you listen to Cooper and his colleagues at CNN, of course Trump obstructed justice and colluded with the Russians, regardless of the facts. Cooper welcomes the disgruntled McCabe to spew his nonsense on the “Anderson Cooper 360” Cable show. McCabe’s just one more stooge to testify against Trump in CNN’s public lynching of a U.S. president. Mueller hasn’t uttered a word after a nearly two-year investigation into Russian meddling and alleged Trump collusion in the 2016 presidential election. Asked whether he thought Trump was a Russian asset, McCabe replied, “I think it’s possible. I think that’s why we started our investigation,”
McCabe started his counter-intelligence investigation of Trump to retaliate for Comey’s firing. McCabe likes to quote Deputy. Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein, who he said was willing to wear a wire and look into removing Trump from office under the 25th Amendment Despite Rosenstein’s denials, McCabe insists that Rosenstein was serious about wearing a wire or ousting Trump under the 25th Amendment. McCabe insists that Trump was the cause of the FBI’s counter-intelligence investigation after Comey’s firing. But McCabe has nothing to say why Trump’s campaign was in the FBI’s crosshairs from Day. 1. Before Trump took the oath of office, the FBI was actively involved in wiretapping Trump campaign officials, including foreign policy aid Carter Page, former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and former Atty. Gen Jeff Session, all of whom were wiretapped during the campaign.
McCabe admitted that after Comey was canned, he and his colleagues opened up a counter-intelligence investigation, not because the FBI believed Trump obstructed justice but purely for retaliation. Comey said May 10, 2017 that Trump had every right to fire him because he served at the pleasure of the president. McCabe knew that Comey’s termination would not stop the FBI investigation into Russian meddling and alleged Trump collusion in the 2016 election. Other agents were assigned to the Russian collusion investigation, not requiring Comey to participate. If McCabe were speaking to an impartial journalist, other than Anderson Cooper, he or she would have been grilled about their evidence McCabe mentioned nothing to Cooper about the basic evidence against Trump because it was built largely off Hillary “dossier,” implicating Trump’s close ties to the Kremlin.
McCabe’s book offers the FBI’s justification in conducting a covert investigation against Trmp: That he was a Russian asset and threat to U.S. national security. “We thought that a potential threat to national security might exist,” McCabe told Cooper. When you think about what McCabe was saying, it could not have been more farfetched. “That being that the president of the United State may have attempted to obstruct justice in his efforts to thwart and impede our investigation of Russian influence, and if he had do so, why? Why would an American president try to stop the FBI from investigating what the Russians might have done to our election,” asked McCabe, leaping to conclusions not warranted by any facts. McCabe, and Comey before him, relied heavily on Hillary paid opposition research AKA “the dossier,” to discredit Trump for the purpose of winning the election.
Spending time gloating in the liberal press, McCabe has a perfect audience for making his case why the FBI investigated Trump at least after Comey’s firing. McCabe refuses to tell anyone any material facts that justified investigating Trump because the probable cause was a fraudulent dossier assembled by Hillary with one purpose in mind: Discrediting Trump before the election. McCabe has his own agenda after getting summarily dismissed by former Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions for botching the 2016 Hillary email investigation. “Presented with the facts, we made hard decisions, decisions that we knew would be tough on the organization, would be tough on me personally . . .” McCabe said, blaming his firing on investigating the president. When McCabe talks about “facts,” he’s talking about using Hillary’s “dossier” to accuse Trump of treason and being a “national security threat.”
