McCabe to sue Trump administraion for defamation and wrongful termination

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McCabe to sue Trump admin for defamation, wrongful termination

Former deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe is planning to sue the Trump administration for defamation and wrongful termination, according to multiple media reports on Friday.

McCabe's lawyer Michael Bromwich told reporters that McCabe is also considering filing other civil claims. He said the legal team hasn't yet figured out when they're going to file the lawsuits and is working on making them "solid."

"We'll file when we're ready," Bromwich said, according to Axios.

The attorney also announced the launch of a legal defense fund for McCabe, and hopes to transfer the money raised for McCabe's legal costs through a crowdfunding campaign started after his March firing to the official fund.

Bromwich also accused opponents of McCabe, like President Trump, of "continuing slander."

Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe earlier this year after an inspector general report found he made an unauthorized disclosure to the media and was not being forthcoming with federal investigators.

McCabe denied the allegations and said that he was being targeted in an effort to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election interference.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released the report last week of McCabe's conduct at the FBI, alleging that he authorized a leak to the press to "advance his personal interests" and misled investigators about the matter. Trump called the report a "disaster" for McCabe.

Horowitz issued a criminal referral to the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. Thursday related to McCabe's conduct that his attorney called "unjustified."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ongful-termination/ar-AAw7npq?ocid=spartanntp

 

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Director James Comey appeared on the Rachel Maddows Show on Thursday, April 19th. About a half-hour into the show, they spoke of FBI officials who’d “ended up having their lives follow curvy paths in the past year”, including Andrew McCabe. Here’s the transcript on a portion of the McCabe conversation:

MADDOW: Andrew McCabe said when he was fired: Here’s the reality, I’m being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played, the actions I took, the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey. The release of this inspector general report against McCabe was accelerated only after my testimony to the House Intelligence Committee revealed that I would corroborate former Director Comey’s accounts of his discussions with the president.

Do you think that’s the case? Are you concerned there’s been an orchestrated campaign to target you and other people who could corroborate your testimony as witnesses?

COMEY: There’s certainly been an organized campaign to target me. There was definitely an organized campaign to attack Andy McCabe, and urge his firing, tear down his reputation, attack his wife – just shameful attacks from the president directly.

And with respect to the others, I know them all well, there’s different stories. …
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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-interviews-james-comey-read-the-full-transcript

 

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Hours ago, Michael Bromwich tweeted this: "More false and defamatory statements exposed.”

He was referring to FactCheck.org’s fact-checking of separate statements President Trump had made about Mr Comey & about the McCabes on the April 26th edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends.

Speaking about Andrew McCabe, Mr Trump had said:

“But the top people in the FBI, headed by Comey, were crooked. You look at McCabe where he takes $700,000 from somebody supporting Hillary Clinton. He takes $700,000 for his wife's campaign. And by the way, didn't even spend that money. They kept some of it because under that law you're -- he took seven. He took $700,000 from a group headed by Terry McAuliffe who was under investigation by McCabe and the FBI and that investigation disappeared. He took $700,000. And you look at the corruption at the top of the FBI. It's a disgrace. And our Justice Department, which I try and stay away from, but at some point I won't.”

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2018/04/26/president-trump-talks-north-korea-iran-comey-cohen-dr-ronny-jackson-and-kanye-west-in-fox-friends-interview.html
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FactCheck.org's verdict: FALSE.

Here's its report on the allegations Mr Trump made about the McCabes:

In his interview, Trump also said without evidence that Jill McCabe, wife of the former FBI deputy director, “didn’t even spend” and “kept some of” the nearly $700,000 that her Virginia Senate campaign received from a Hillary Clinton supporter in 2015.

In fact, campaign finance reports filed with the Virginia Department of Elections show that Jill McCabe’s campaign spent all of the nearly $1.7 million it raised for her race. So, there were no leftover funds for the McCabes to keep.

As we’ve written before, Jill McCabe unsuccessfully ran for a Virginia state Senate seat in 2015. Her campaign reported receiving a total of $1.67 million, including $467,500 from Common Good VA and $207,788 from the Virginia Democratic Party.

Common Good VA is the political action committee of former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime friend and supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Combined, McAuliffe’s PAC and the Virginia Democratic Party contributed $675,000 to McCabe’s campaign.

We asked the White House what evidence Trump had that the McCabes “kept some of” the campaign money, but did not receive a response. We will update this story if we do.

Jill McCabe’s campaign actually spent all of the money it raised in 2015, according to a summary of its finances by the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project.

As of Nov. 26, 2015, which was more than 3 weeks after the Nov. 3 election, McCabe’s campaign reported a balance of just $13,085.49, according to the financial report it filed on Dec. 3, 2015.

Its follow-up report on March 28, 2016, (see Schedule D) shows that a good chunk of the remaining money was used to pay staff salaries and donate to other Democratic candidates and committees. There were also payments for services such as email, internet and banking. The largest single payment we saw was $4,000 to Vaquero Blue LLC, a Democratic direct mail firm headed by former McCabe campaign manager, Scott Remley.

And the campaign’s final financial report — which was also filed on March 28, 2016, and disclosed an ending balance of $0 — says that its last two expenditures were campaign contributions. On Feb. 29, 2016, the campaign donated $1,000 to Democrat LuAnn Bennett, who lost her bid for Congress in 2016, and it donated $471.33 to Democratic Lt. Governor Ralph Northam, who won his 2017 race to succeed McAuliffe as governor.

So, McCabe had no leftover campaign funds to keep, according to state election records.

Source: https://www.factcheck.org/2018/04/trump-wrong-on-comey-leak-mccabe-funds/​

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