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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
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)1. Yes. Sessions threw McCabe at tRump as red meat to prevent his own firing. Self-serving, vindictive.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)2. Hypocriscy, considering Sessions lies
Motley13
(3,867 posts)3. maggot is such a vile, conniving imbecile, I can hear it now
he will deny that he had anything to do with it & then fire Sesspool for doing it
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)4. Jeff Sessions
Trying so hard to please the dotard.