President Donald Trump is lashing out at key officials involved in the Russia probe, namely former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and the current deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein.
President Donald Trump is lashing out at key officials involved in the Russia probe, namely former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and the current deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein. In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” McCabe, who was fired last year by the FBI, described Rosenstein as having raised the prospect of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Trump says McCabe and Rosenstein “look like they were planning a very illegal act, and got caught.””This was the illegal and treasonous ‘insurance policy’ in full action!” Trump tweeted. Rosenstein issued a denial of McCabe’s account last year, saying any suggestion that he had ever advocated for the removal of the president “is absolutely false.”McCabe also said in the interview that a “crime may have been committed” when Trump fired James Comey and tried to publicly undermine an investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia, and that the FBI had good reason to open a counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump was in league with Russia and therefore a possible national security threat.”And the idea is, if the president committed obstruction of justice, fired the director of the of the FBI to negatively impact or to shut down our investigation of Russia’s malign activity and possibly in support of his campaign, as a counterintelligence investigator you have to ask yourself, “Why would a president of the United States do that?” McCabe said. “So all those same sorts of facts cause us to wonder is there an inappropriate relationship, a connection between this president and our most fearsome enemy, the government of Russia?”Asked whether Rosenstein was on board with the obstruction and counterintelligence investigations, McCabe replied, “Absolutely.
