Trump blasts CNN hire of Andrew McCabe as contributor
President Trump went after CNN in a tweet on Friday, slamming the “disgraceful” hiring of his prominent critic, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, as a contributor.
McCabe has compared Trump’s behavior to that of a mob boss, saying, “The president and his men were trying to work me the way a criminal brigade would operate,” notes The Hill.
McCabe makes the allegations in his book titled, “The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump.”
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According to The Guardian, “McCabe writes that after firing [James] Comey, Trump and the White House counsel, Don McGahn, acted like mobsters by in effect offering McCabe protection in return for loyalty.”
McCabe himself was eventually fired in March 2018 in a controversial move by the administration just days before he was eligible to retire.
