The Ongoing Purge
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FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has been effectively forced out:
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is abruptly stepping down from the FBI amid pressure and after months of scathing attacks from President Trump and some of his political supporters. A new NBC News report reveals that Trump excoriated McCabe for subjects ranging from his wife’s politics to former FBI director James Comey’s plane trip home.
Multiple people told NBC News’s Carol E. Lee that Trump called McCabe the day after Comey’s firing; he was reportedly furious that Comey took a government-funded plane back from Los Angeles to Washington, DC, after he was let go. (Comey is said to have learned from TV coverage that he was out of a job.)
According to NBC:
Trump demanded to know why Comey was allowed to fly on an FBI plane after he had been fired, these people said. McCabe told the president he hadn’t been asked to authorize Comey’s flight, but if anyone had asked, he would have approved it, three people familiar with the call recounted to NBC News.
This answer apparently didn’t sit well with the president, as according to NBC, he went “silent for a moment” and then laid into McCabe, “suggesting he ask his wife how it feels to be a loser.” The dig was an apparent reference to his wife, Jill McCabe, and her failed Democratic campaign for Virginia state legislature in 2015.
McCabe responded “Okay, sir.” Trump reportedly hung up on him.
Dan’s recent piece on Trump and authoritarianism is useful context here. Trump isn’t Hitler. But his belief that federal law enforcement should act on his personal behalf and willingness to act on this belief — up to and including obstructing investigations into himself and his associates — is a really serious issue, and it’s a level of authoritarianism that isn’t just the inevitable result of electing any Republican president.