Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s new book, “The Threat,” contains disturbing descriptions of life working under President Donald Trump and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
According to a Washington Post book review, McCabe echoes others’ accounts of Trump’s utter inadequacy in the face of the job: lack of interest in security briefings, inability to sift fact from fiction, scapegoating immigrants, minuscule attention span if a meeting covered multiple topics.
But, according to McCabe, Sessions brought many of his own, less well-documented demons, to the table.
Sessions reportedly said that the FBI was better off when “you all only hired Irishmen. They were drunks but they could be trusted. Not like all those new people with nose rings and tattoos — who knows what they’re doing?”
McCabe says that Sessions also had a xenophobic streak, and would often ask where a criminal was from during meetings.
