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laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 09:35 AM Mar 2018

Eric Holder: McCabe firing is 'dangerous' attempt to please 'increasingly erratic president'

Source: The HILL



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Former Attorney General Eric Holder (D) blasted the Trump administration over the firing of former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, calling the timing of the dismissal "cruel."

"The timing appears cruel and a cave that compromised DOJ independence to please an increasingly erratic President who should've played no role here," Holder tweeted early Saturday. "This is dangerous."


Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe on Friday, two days ahead of the top FBI official's scheduled retirement. The dismissal puts McCabe's pension at risk, which he would have been eligible to receive on Sunday.

President Trump, who had repeatedly attacked McCabe, celebrated the firing on Twitter just hours after it took place

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/fbi/378906-holder-mccabe-firing-is-dangerous-attempt-to-please-increasingly?amp&__twitter_impression=true
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Eric Holder: McCabe firing is 'dangerous' attempt to please 'increasingly erratic president' (Original Post) laserhaas Mar 2018 OP
Yes. Sessions threw McCabe at tRump as red meat to prevent his own firing. Self-serving, vindictive. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2018 #1
Hypocriscy, considering Sessions lies laserhaas Mar 2018 #2
maggot is such a vile, conniving imbecile, I can hear it now Motley13 Mar 2018 #3
Jeff Sessions Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2018 #4

Motley13

(3,867 posts)
3. maggot is such a vile, conniving imbecile, I can hear it now
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 10:06 AM
Mar 2018



he will deny that he had anything to do with it & then fire Sesspool for doing it
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