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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(136,289 posts)
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 03:59 PM Dec 2020

Former acting FBI chief says Trump pardons are undermining justice: 'It's remarkably disgusting'

The former acting FBI chief Andrew McCabe has criticised the wave of presidential pardons issued by Donald Trump this week as "remarkably disgusting."

Speaking to CNN, Mr McCabe said the president "is actively engaged in undermining the system of justice that he is supposed to protect and defend."

"These pardons are essentially the culmination of those acts of obstruction of justice," that was cited in the Mueller report, he added.

Mr McCabe was fired by Trump's first Attorney General Jeff Sessions one day before his pension kicked in. A Justice Department report said at the time that McCabe had overstepped his authority by allowing an aide to speak to the Wall Street Journal about an FBI probe into the Clinton Foundation.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-acting-fbi-chief-says-211944125.html

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Former acting FBI chief says Trump pardons are undermining justice: 'It's remarkably disgusting' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2020 OP
Former Director McCabe is unremarkably not-wrong (nt) mr_lebowski Dec 2020 #1
No Shit! Cha Dec 2020 #2
I really hope Biden makes McCabe's retirement whole. BComplex Dec 2020 #3
trumps pissing off the judicial branch too, duforsure Dec 2020 #4
Like he gives a fuck central scrutinizer Dec 2020 #5

BComplex

(9,934 posts)
3. I really hope Biden makes McCabe's retirement whole.
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 04:43 PM
Dec 2020

McCabe was one of the first to consider the 25th amendment interference early on...and it should have been done then.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
4. trumps pissing off the judicial branch too,
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 05:16 PM
Dec 2020

After they sentenced these hard core criminals to prison.

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