(Update: DOJ says Andy’s lying) McCabe confirms talks held at Justice Dept. about removing Trump
Who the hell does this SOB think he’s fooling? The more this guy opens his mouth, the more we find out how out-of-control these seditionists were/are.
McCabe confirms talks held at Justice Dept. about removing Trump
Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe is confirming for the first time publicly that there were high-level discussions at the Justice Department about recruiting Cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office in the aftermath of former FBI Director James Comey's firing.
The discussions also included speculation about which Cabinet members could be on board with the idea, McCabe said in an interview with CBS's Scott Pelley. According to Pelley on "CBS This Morning" Thursday, McCabe confirmed the discussion among Justice Department officials. This segment of the interview, which was taped for "60 Minutes," was not aired Thursday morning.
McCabe, who was fired from the FBI last March, also said he ordered an investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice as a way to preserve ongoing inquiries into Russian election meddling in case there was an effort to terminate them
In September, citing sources familiar with memos authored by McCabe, CNN reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed wearing a "wire" to record conversations with Trump and recruiting Cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Also in September, an anonymous "senior official in the Trump administration" claimed in a New York Times op-ed that there had been "early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment."
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In a statement on Thursday, a Justice Department spokesperson said Rosenstein -- who repeatedly disputed the "wire" revelation back in September -- again denied pursuing or advocating for the use of the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.
"As the Deputy Attorney General previously has stated, based on his personal dealings with the President, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment, nor was the DAG in a position to consider invoking the 25th Amendment," the statement read.
Update:
JUST IN: DOJ responds to @60Minutes interview with Andrew McCabe, airing Sunday on @CBS. pic.twitter.com/95PDbMfent
— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS) February 14, 2019
DOJ denies Andrew McCabe's claims that department considered removing Trump from office
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Hahahaha. They’re hanging the little SOB out to dry, so to speak
Comments
Daily Kos has a petition up for Trump's cabinet to
invoke the 25th amendment and remove Trump from office. Sure..they'll get right on this just as soon as they can just because some "democratic activists" tell them to.
I m thinking that McCabe is just trying to sell his book. The FBI can't act on its own to remove the president unless they do it through some nefarious ways.
Side note:
Here's further proof that the NSA does have proof of whether the DNC was hacked or not. Binney explains again how he knows that the computer files were downloaded not hacked. It'd be super neat if Trump told them to provide the evidence of the hack. I can't understand why he refuses to do it. This would put a huge dent in this Russian interference nonsense.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
I don’t understand what’s up with Trump
either. The ONLY thing I can think of is maybe he’s dragging this out to show what all really happened.
Otherwise it beats me.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
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