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.
I find this information completely unsurprising. We have had a “national emergency” since January, 2017.
So, the book contains nothing we didn’t know already?
And all this just confirms what seems pretty much readily apparent based on what we see in public and in twitter bs.
I’m a little surprised by the sessions thing. The drunken-irishman bit was more my parents’ and grandparents’ generation. But then again, so was the bred-in-the-bone racism. Just an old-fashioned southern gentleman, I guess.
Jefferson Beauregard “The Last of the Genteel Race-Warriors” Sessions is xenophobic??
It’ll be good to have the details, but everybody on the planet – Democrat and Republican – has known Jeff Sessions is thoroughgoingly racist & xenophobic for a long time.