Former FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe smacked down Donald Trump’s claims Wednesday night that the Justice Department is violating its own rules following the release of a new, massive legal filing in the former president’s election interference case with just weeks to go until the 2024 presidential election
Emphasizing that the DOJ had nothing to do with the bombshell filing’s release earlier in the day, McCabe, now a CNN contributor, said on “Anderson Cooper 360” that he doesn’t find Trump’s arguments “particularly persuasive, as you might guess.”
“These are not decisions of the Department of Justice, these are decisions of the court, and the judge decided to release this filing today and that is not something the Department of Justice can control,” McCabe said.
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“So, it’s really not a matter that comes within the scope of that policy whatsoever,” he said.
The rule Trump is referring to can also be waived by the attorney general, McCabe said, “anytime he sees it’s necessary to do that, or in the interest of justice.” McCabe added that the policy is specifically directed at investigators, including the FBI and U.S. attorneys, “and it’s a caution to not take any overt public actions – things that would be seen in the run-up to an election.”
“We are long past that point in this case,” McCabe argued. Cooper noted that “obviously Trump didn’t care” about the rule he is now complaining about in 2016 when then-FBI Director James Comey “informed Congress and inevitably it became public that the FBI was reopening the Clinton email investigation days before the 2016 election.”
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