Donald Trump, via executioner Jeff Sessions, fires Andrew McCabe 26 hours before he’s set to retire. After the Friday News Dump. You know, in order to screw him out of his full pension. Trump reacted in typical presidential fashion:
Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI – A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!
You see, the reason McCabe was allegedly fired was for ‘for not being forthcoming with investigators during an inspector general review.’ No evidence was provided. As if the Trump Administration views ‘not being forthcoming’ as a firing offense.
McCabe had been the victim of Trump’s ire ever since the firing of James Comey. This article in The Hill spells it out:
Trump had repeatedly attacked McCabe, claiming that the former FBI official was biased against him and going after his wife’s connection to prominent Democrats.
“FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go?!!!” Trump wrote in a tweet in late December amid news that McCabe would retire in the spring.
In other words, he planned to fire him all along. He just wanted to wait until the right moment when he could extract the most vengeance.
The good news is that this will backfire big-time. Not only will this in no way impact McCabe’s credibility other than to enhance it, it will open up new avenues for the special prosecutor. Plus, this will do nothing to slow the meme that President Dennison is melting down.
I may be wrong, but this action might even give the Trump mouthbreathers pause. They blame everybody else for their lot in life. Including, no doubt in some cases, a boss who ‘done them wrong’. Trump has now done the same thing to McCabe that Trump supporters have seen done to them.
Being a dick is what got Trump elected. Being a dick is what likely will cause his downfall.