President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that Andrew McCabe, the former deputy FBI director now touring the airwaves touting an aggressive tell-all book, is more perp than cop.
'I think Andrew McCabe has made a fool out of himself over the last couple of days, and he really looks to me like sort of a poor man's J. Edgar Hoover,' Trump lectured in the Oval Office as Austria's young right-wing chancellor listened.
'I think he's a disaster,' the president said. 'And what he was trying to do was terrible, and he was caught. I'm very proud to say we caught him.'
Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe in 2018 less than two days before he was due to retire with a full government pension. He cited McCabe's 'lack of candor' to investigators probing press leaks about the FBI's investigation surrounding Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's classified email scandal.
'He is a disgraced man,' Trump said Wednesday, citing the inspector general report that resulted.
Donald Trump used his bully pulpit on Wednesday to marginalize former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who is promoting on a book tour the idea that the president's ties with and lexity toward Russia may have made him a threat to national security
Trump called McCabe 'a poor man's J. Edgar Hoover, suggesting he was more lawbreaker than lawman after a Justice Department inspector general report concluded he lied to investigators about his role in press leaks about the Hillary Clinton classified email affair
'The IG report was a disaster, a disaster from his standpoint. Anybody reading the IG report would say: How could a man like this be involved with the FBI?'
McCabe maintains in his book, 'The Threat,' that Trump raised suspicions about this proximity to Russia by firing FBI director James Comey as he began asking uncomfortable questions, and by hinting that other axes might fall.
J. Edgar Hoover was the firs director of the FBI and ran it for 48 years; Trump's swipe at McCabe was meant to suggest that he couldn't live up to Hoover's standards
He said Tuesday night on CNN that 'it's possible' the president is secretly a Russian agent.
'I think that's why we started our investigation,' he said.
'This President is undermining the role of law enforcement, undermining
