Democrat partisans mislead on McCabe firing

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Fighting The Corrupt Obama Cronies Lies About The McCabe Firing

Let’s get one thing perfectly clear – the Andrew McCabe firing wasn’t political. It was based on a report by the nonpartisan Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the firing was recommended by the Office of Professional Responsibility, which is the ethics office of the FBI, the agency where McCabe worked. But that didn’t stop some Obama leftovers from spinning the firing into a political move manipulated by the President.
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Over at Fox News, conservative pundit Mollie Hemingway takes the argument a step further and unmasks the lie that McCabe’s firing was politically motivated. How does Hemingway prove that McCabe’s firing wasn’t about politics? She reminds everyone that the investigation against him began while President Obama was still in office!

It is really important for mainstream journalists to tell this story accurately. Andrew McCabe was under investigation before Trump was even taking office. The Office of Professional Ethics found that he was in need of being fired.

Yes, he was involved in quite a few leaks during the Trump administration, and I think Trump takes that quite personally, but this is separate from that.

This is about the FBI… saying this guy should be fired.

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The caterwauling on the left is mainly by those who supported the coup attempt against Trump using the unverified dossier Clinton paid for.