Day 773 Monday February 18, 2019
President’s Day
623 Days to the 2020 election and 701 Days to Inauguration Day
Agenda: Interview with Andrew McCabe Part I
But first, a few random thoughts:
I was so impressed with the 60 Minutes interview with Andrew McCabe that at first I thought I’d copy out some of the things he said verbatim. As I began to listen once again to the interview I couldn’t pick out what to cut. I have therefore put up the first several minutes of the interview in this screed: word for word.
Andrew’s book comes out tomorrow Tuesday. I would urge everyone to buy it. At least that way he’ll get some money for retirement after the Disater-In-Chief fired McCabe one day short of getting his pension because Trump is a mean petty little bitch.
It also is interesting to me how the books about what is going on and what has gone on are, like the Mueller investigation, spiraling closer and closer to Trump. It’s almost like with each passing day, and each passing hour the sword of justice is getting sharpened. I wonder if he feels the heat? Probably not. He’s inured to such. But pretty little Ivanka? Or dopey Jared? Or the Trump boys? Yeah. I wonder when they’ll squeal like little pigs?
And Now:
Interview with Andrew McCabe Part I
Scott Pelley (SP): “Tonight you will hear, for the first time from the man who ordered the investigations of the president. Former Director MacCabe is about to describe behind-the-secenes chaos after president Trump fired FBI Director Jim Comey.
“In the days that followed McCabe says that law enforcement officials discussed whether to secretly record a conversation with the president and whether Mr Trump could be removed from office through invoking the 25th Amendment.
“McCabe is a life long Republican who had a sterling 21 year career at the FBI, serving as head of Counter Terrorism and number 2 under James Comey.
“But he was fired last year for allegedly lying to his own agents about a story he leaked to Newspapers. *
“Not since Watergate has the FBI been drawn so deeply into presidential politics.
“Andrew McCabe was pulled into the center of the tempest on May 9, 2017 when he was summoned by the president hours after Comey was fired.”
Andrew McCabe (AMC): “I’d never been to a meeting in the Oval Office before.
“Um, I’m a career FBI agent,
“Um, a government worker.”
SP: “Oval Office was above your pay grade?”
AMC: “It certainly was.
“And the president immediately went off on an almost gleeful description of what had happened with the firing of James Comey, and then he went on to state that people in the FBI were thrilled about this.
“That people really disliked James Comey. That they were very happy about this. That it was a great thing.”
SP: “He was telling you what the reaction inside the FBI was?”
AMC: “He was. It was very different than the reaction I had seen immediately before I came to the White House.”
SP: “Which was what?”
AMC: “People were shocked. We had lost our leader. A leader who was um respected … liked by the vast majority of FBI employees. People were very sad.
“But anyway that night in the Oval Office was not reality.
“The version of events that I quickly realized he wished me to adopt.”
623 Days to the 2020 election and 701 Days to Inauguration Day
PS Andrew McCabe on 60 Minutes
*To be clear, McCabe did not leak to the newspapers. Part of his job was to talk to the press. The Wall Street Journal was about to run a story that had errors in it. McCabe worked with them to correct their story and he did so through all the proper channels. The White Hose and the president are lying.
Saw the interview. Among the usual problems with the liar in chief the cruelest was the phone call asking Andrew about how his wife felt about being a loser. What a vindictive immoral man.