The Post asks if firing McCabe might come back to bite Trump on the ass.
… Read the restTrump has now, after all, cemented the enemy status of a top-ranking official at the FBI (its No. 2) and onetime acting director. He previously did that by firing McCabe’s superior, former FBI director James B. Comey, and Comey has rewarded that decision by leaking unhelpful things and testifying about Trump in a negative light. He is now set to release a book.
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Former federal prosecutor Patrick Cotter said McCabe would still be bound by confidentiality rules and can’t share anything about grand jury testimony that he may have gleaned. But he said the treatment of McCabe is without real compare.
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