McCabe: No One In Bipartisan Gang Of 8 Pushed Back Against FBI’s Trump Probe

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Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said Tuesday that when he briefed the Gang of Eight — a bipartisan cohort of the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate — on the FBI opening an investigation into President Donald Trump, no one voiced dissent.

He gave the briefing on the counterintelligence investigation soon after former FBI Director James Comey’s firing.

“That’s the important part here, Savannah,” McCabe told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie. “No one objected. Not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds and not based on the facts.”

Notably, the Gang at the time included Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), one of Trump’s greatest allies. The President has not yet responded to this newest revelation, but he has been making his feelings clear as McCabe makes the rounds for his book, “The Threat.”

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  1. Oh, my! Dearest Lindsey looks quite the fuckhead, doesn’t he?!

  2. (1) Provable

    (2) Evidence of the Progression of the GOP (especially McConnell) into a Trump Cult

  3. Trump is an idiot for going after the FBI, those guys will be there long after he is out of the White House, and he and his spawns have a long history of dodgy deals.

  4. Avatar for davidn davidn says:

    I hope Donnie two scoops chews on that all day long.

  5. There is a lot of explaining to do to the millions of people…

    Oh and I’m looking forward to it and so are Schiff, Cummings and Waters.

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