
Former President Donald Trump blasted the Department of Justice for giving fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe back his pension and benefits despite being let go by then Attorney General Jeff Sessions hours before McCabe’s scheduled 2018 retirement.
”Isn’t it terrible that all of Andrew McCabe’s benefits, pensions, salary, etc., were just fully reinstated by the Justice Department? This is yet another mockery to our Country,” Trump said in a statement Friday. ”Among other things, McCabe’s wife received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Hillary Clinton and the Democrats while Crooked Hillary was under investigation, which was quickly dropped, of course.”
According to The Washington Post, McCabe and the DOJ settled his lawsuit claiming that his dismissal in March 2018 was politically motivated because he would not give his allegiance to Trump while supervising the bureau’s investigation into Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 election.
McCabe, who was under investigation himself for a leak at the bureau at the time, will get his full pension and some $200,000 in missed payments, according to the story.
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The former President making this argument only strengthens McCabe’s stance that the firing and termination of his pension were retribution.
You see, until there is a formal investigation that lays out how McCabe messed up, you don’t really have much grounds for immediate termination.
And the allegiance Trump wanted as honesty, and McCabe implicitly admits in his own legal document that he, MaCabe, refused to give Trump honesty. McCabe still defends the Russian collusion hoax (for example). And how about the following in TIME Magazine (19 Feb 2019 when McCabe was trying to save his own skin by pointing the finger at others, which implicitly ends up pointing back at himself – why wouldn’t the alleged Rosenstein attemptde putsch be grounds for investigating Rosenstein – as well as cause to require McCabe to inform Trump about the matter):
> In an interview with 60 Minutes that aired Sunday night, McCabe said that Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein raised the idea of invoking the 25th Amendment against the president.
> But McCabe’s spokesperson appeared to walk back some of the comments, saying McCabe’s statements had been taken “out of context and misrepresented.”
There was russian collusion. Stop parroting a sociopath. There was obstruction.
Trump should resign.
These spectators fail to grasp that pensions and such are retirement plans that are part of the job contract. No one would sanely expect an employee to surrender his vested 401k account balance because he was fired. Pensions are similarly investments by the employee over the term of his employment, with the legal expectation that the pension plan will fund his retirement. This has nothing to do with honesty or loyalty.
The govt had a stronger case with Mccabe, the govt is going to have to pay again for lisa page and peter strozk because Trump abused his power.
By settling the govt. prevents sessions, Rosenstein et al from being deposed. Imagine you spent a lifetime serving the country and a man like Trump comes and says if you don’t kneel at the alter and do my bidding regardless I will slander your wife and family and send a bunch of psychos to torment your family. Two days shy of vesting in his pension, to all you trump supporters you view that as ethical?
Careful. We are monitoring you.
If you serve your whole life and mess up at some point it’s your own doing. If you are in a business that gets sold, you now work for the new owner, you abide by his rules. You dont own that business.
And no, in a democracy you arent the one who gets to decide if one should be president. The votes got Trump elected, you disagree, you resign. You dont get to stay and sabotage.
If jan 6 was an insurrection attempt by the Republicans, then McCabe and co. was an insurrection attempt against Trump.