2/19/2019

2016 ELECTION/ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional leaders did not object when they were informed two years ago that the FBI had opened a counterintelligence investigation into President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, Andrew McCabe, the bureau’s former acting director, said Tuesday [2-19-19]. In an interview on NBC’s ‘Today’ show, McCabe said the secret briefing before the group of lawmakers known as the Gang of Eight occurred in the chaotic days of 2017 after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, who led the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. McCabe said the president’s action, in part, prompted him to order the inquiry into whether Trump acted on behalf of the Kremlin and posed a possible national security threat to the country. While briefing lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., McCabe said none of the members opposed the action ‘not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds or based on the facts.'”

-Kevin Johnson, “Andrew McCabe: Top lawmakers were told the FBI was investigating Trump and ‘no one objected’,” USA Today, February 19, 2019 6:11 pm