McCabe and Mr. Mueller

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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There appear to have been good reasons to fire FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, and good reasons for both Republicans and Democrats to believe he was a malign force in the 2016 elections. So why did Donald Trump and his lawyer decide to make it seem as though he had only been fired for crass political reasons? And why is everybody going insane over the clearly preposterous idea that a political... Source

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1:46.9	Hi John.
1:47.9	And associate editor Noah Rothman. Hi John.
1:50.9	So our memory is out today, so it will just be the three of us.
1:54.9	Talking about the bizarre events surrounding the firing of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe just 20 hours before he was due to retire and receive his pension,
2:06.9	the firing then denying him his pension for 21 years of service.
2:12.9	Noah, you profess yourself baffled by the fact that this has become a controversy.
2:17.9	Why don't you lay out your bafflement?
2:19.9	Well, I get that it's a controversy and I get that it looks really petty.
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