It's too early to take away any clear lessons from the Trump era, except one: Whatever you do, never fire the FBI director.
First of all, Trump obviously was perfectly capable of discharging his duties; he just discharged them in a way alarming to McCabe and Rosenstein.
The FBI didn't go this far, but it did open, per McCabe, two probes into the president to determine if he was a Russian agent or had obstructed justice.
Consider the lunacy of this: By providing Trump with a memo justifying Comey's firing, Rosenstein participated in the scheme that the FBI considered a possible crime, or the culmination of a Russian plot.
It's also absurd that the FBI officials considered the firing of Comey to be potential obstruction of the investigation that they were continuing, and indeed making more serious by making the president an explicit target.
In his cover letter over Rosenstein's memo, Trump mentioned that Comey had told him three times that he wasn't under investigation.
What McCabe's version strongly suggests is that the FBI took upon itself to be a check on the president of the United States.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/fbi-trump-investigation-andrew-mccabe-interview/
First of all, Trump obviously was perfectly capable of discharging his duties; he just discharged them in a way alarming to McCabe and Rosenstein.
The FBI didn't go this far, but it did open, per McCabe, two probes into the president to determine if he was a Russian agent or had obstructed justice.
Consider the lunacy of this: By providing Trump with a memo justifying Comey's firing, Rosenstein participated in the scheme that the FBI considered a possible crime, or the culmination of a Russian plot.
It's also absurd that the FBI officials considered the firing of Comey to be potential obstruction of the investigation that they were continuing, and indeed making more serious by making the president an explicit target.
In his cover letter over Rosenstein's memo, Trump mentioned that Comey had told him three times that he wasn't under investigation.
What McCabe's version strongly suggests is that the FBI took upon itself to be a check on the president of the United States.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/fbi-trump-investigation-andrew-mccabe-interview/
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