McCabe: I think it is possible that Trump is a Russian Asset

[Stuart G]

Source: CNN

Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said Tuesday it is possible President Donald Trump is a Russian asset.

"Do you still believe the President could be a Russian asset?" asked CNN's Anderson Cooper during an interview with McCabe on "Anderson Cooper 360."

"I think it's possible. I think that's why we started our investigation, and I'm really anxious to see where (special counsel Robert) Mueller concludes that," McCabe said.

It's another bombshell comment from McCabe, which comes days after he outlined on Sunday to CBS the reasons top US officials decided to open a counterintelligence prove and obstruction of justice investigation into the President

McCabe is promoting his new book, "The Threat," which paints a stark portrait of his time at the bureau under Trump, describing in vivid detail his version of interactions with top officials at the White House and Justice Department. The book was released Tuesday and became and instant best-seller.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/19/politics/andrew-mccabe-trump-law-enforcement/index.html

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This is a bombshell of major magnitude. The ex head of the FBI is calling the President of the United States a "Russian Asset". This term "Asset" is unfamiliar to me, but I have seen it the last few days. I suspect it is something like, the individual owes allegiance to another country (Russia) as opposed to the U.S.A. I don't think any President has ever been referred to in these terms by any former head of the FBI or CIA. We will have to see what all this means in the end. But it is major news with major significance.

[kimbutgar]

1. Oh hell yes he is a russian asset

And the media is too embarrassed to admit as all of the repuke party,

President Obama and all the intelligence agencies knew as many Democrats. He is comprised and Putin owns him.

[Stuart G]

3. "If he is compromised and Putin owns him" than this it.

For McCabe to make this statement public, he must have absolute proof. You don't make statements like this on live TV without proof. I don't think this is just selling a book. (maybe so) But this is someone who had access to all the information that is secret and he is making this statement live on CNN. Also, he knows the significance of what he is saying. I think that this is it. Trump will have a hard time defending this oen.

[Amaryllis]

2. AN asset actively works for an adversary. It is more than just owing allegiance.

[Stuart G]

4. Note: McCabe is not a new FBI agent.. Here is some of his record:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McCabe

McCabe began his FBI career in the New York Field Office[18] in 1996.[20] While there, he was on the SWAT team.[21] In 2003, he began work as a supervisory special agent at the Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force.[22] Later, McCabe held management positions in the FBI Counterterrorism Division,[18] the FBI National Security Branch[23] and the FBI's Washington Field Office.[24] In 2009, he served as the first director of the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, a program to research interrogation techniques that was created after the Department of Defense Directive 2310 ban of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques.[16] McCabe was part of the investigation of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.[21] McCabe secured the arrest of Ahmed Abu Khattala for suspected involvement in the 2012 Benghazi attack.[21]

FBI Director Comey appointed McCabe as Deputy Director of the FBI on January 29, 2016, and he assumed those duties on February 1, 2016.[25] '
Sessions fired McCabe on March 16, 2018, 26 hours before his scheduled retirement.[8][9] Sessions announced that he based his decision on reports from the DOJ Inspector General and the FBI's disciplinary office saying that McCabe had made unauthorized releases of information to the media and had misled agents who questioned him about it. McCabe disputed these charges and alleged that his firing was politically motivated
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Sessions fired McCabe last year 26 hours before his scheduled retirement. Trump would not let him retire peacefully. I don't know what the truth is here. But if I had to trust McCabe, a lifetime employee of the FBI who was Deputy Director of the organization after 22 years of service to the U.S.A, over Trump and Sessions who are liars I would choose the Deputy Director who gave 22 years of service. Yes, Sessions is gone, but the liar in chief is still in charge. Trump cannot even get his lies straight there are so many. Hundreds of lies, thousand of lies.
So, is it. I think this is major news: McCabe, former FBI Director, 22 years of service to the FBI, calls Trump, President of the United States " a Russian Asset."

[thesquanderer]

6. There are also "unwitting" assets... people who are being used but don't realize it.

McCabe could also be including that possible scenario.

[Stuart G]

7. I can't believe that Trump doesn't know he owes allegiance to Putin.

There is financial evidence as well as Putin's obvious deference to Putin over information supplied by our own people. Trump once stated privately that he believed Putin over our own people. That has already been top news in the last few days.

[shanny]

9. I get your point

but there is another sense that "unwitting" could be used.

[lilactime]

5. Glad he put that out there.

[shanny]

8. Problem.

a) if rump is a Russian asset
b) if McCabe believes this and
c) has good reason to do so given his background/job/responsibilities
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WHY did he wait until now (an effing BOOK TOUR??!?!?) to say so, out loud and in public?

DAMN it.

[Fuzzpope]

10. Because

I addressed this thought earlier today at length in a previous thread.

McCabe may have been asked to not rock the boat previously, with all oarries knowing full well the catalyst those words spoken could become. Speaking thus puts the Mueller investigation in significant peril of being terminated by Trump in a last ditch effort to halt the advance of justice beating a path to his door.

That he says it now, without obvious concern, suggests to me that where it was vulnerable before, it is now insulated against Trump's actions.

I'm hoping that the interpretation is correct, by extension it means that the jaws of the trap are close to being sprung.

I hope.

I hope.

[shanny]

11. Thanks for your reply.

I'll check out your previous thread.

Good fortune to us all.

[sprinkleeninow]

18. And

🤡 no like this no how.

[jls4561]

12. Duh

Russian asset, Saudi asset. Whatever, after all Russians are white people (well, not all but Vlad is pretty pasty). And the Saudis stopped being brown people when they gave him money.

[broiles]

13. I just downloaded his book from Amazon.

Know what I'm doing tomorrow.

[DeminPennswoods]

14. This is such a remarkable statement

to me.

[jrthin]

15. I'd also like to place bet that the Pope is catholic. nt

[Hassler]

16. Cheeto is a half-witting Russian asset.

[PatrickforO]

17. I'm CERTAIN Trump is a Russian asset.

Asset, puppet, whatever - he's doing his dance with Putin holding the strings.

[dalton99a]

19. Kick

[C Moon]

20. And on top of the the asshole wasn't elected into the WH: he was placed by Russia and the GOP

That traitor ass should NOT be considered President of the U.S.