The former acting director of the FBI claims President Donald Trump vented to him after firing James Comey that the suddenly former FBI chief was allowed to fly home from California at government expense.
Comey was giving a speech in Los Angeles when people in his audience told him cable news channels were announcing that he had been terminated.
In his forthcoming book, 'The Threat,' the Comey deputy who took over the law enforcement agency writes that the vindictive president thought Comey should pay for his own airline ticket back to Washington to clear out his desk.
Instead the ousted lawman hopped on the same FBI jet he had used to fly west.
President Donald Trump was irate over James Comey's use of an FBI jet to fly from Los Angeles to Washington after he fired him in May 2017, according to a new book by Comey's deputy
Comey learned he had been sacked while giving a speech in L.A.: he thought members of the audience were joking when they told him TV screens in the auditorium flashed news of his pink-slip while he was on stage
Then-deputy FBI chief Andy McCabe, who took over as acting director before his own firing the next year, says in a new book that Trump wanted Comey to pay for his own flight home even though the FBI's plane already had Comey's security detail on board and had to fly back to D.C. anyway
'I told him that bureau lawyers had assured me there was no legal issue with Comey coming home on the plane. I decided that he should do so,' McCabe writes, describing a phone call the following day.
'The existing threat assessment indicated he was still at risk, so he needed a protection detail. Since the members of the protection detail would all be coming home, it made sense to bring everybody back on the same plane they had used to fly out there. It was coming back anyway.'
'The president flew off the handle,' McCabe continues, quoting Trump: 'That's not right! I don't approve of that! That's wrong!'
'The president said, I want you to look into that!' he adds. 'I thought to myself: What am I going to look into? I just told you I made that decision.'
The retelling was first published by The Atlantic, in the form of an adapted excerpt from McCabe's book.
The phone call started, McCabe recalls, with Trump calling him on an unsecure, unclassified line and introducing himself by an unfamiliar nickname.
'The voice on the other end said, It's Don Trump calling,' he writes.
'I said, Hello, Mr. President, how are you? Apart from my surprise that he was calling at all, I was surprised that he referred to himself as 'Don'.'
McCabe also writes in his book that Justice Department officials at one point mulled a plan to invoke the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The would have allowed Trump's adversaries in his own administration to remove him from office with a majority vote of his Cabinet and the backing of Vide President Mike Pence.
McCabe is promoting a book, due for a Feb. 19 release
McCabe, whose book is slated for a Feb. 19 release, may have a personal reason to go after the president: He recounts verbal slashing Trump offered on the expense of his wife Jill, who mounted a failed 2015 run for a state senate seat in Virginia.
The president asked after Jill, he writes, asking in a sneering tone: 'Yeah, that must’ve been really tough. To lose. To be a loser.'
A statewide political action committee called Common Good VA contributed $467,000 to her campaign. Hillary Clinton headlined a fundraiser for the group shortly beforehand, raising $500,000 for it.
The PAC was run at the time by Terry McAuliffe, then the governor of Virginia. McAuliffe is a longtime Bill Clinton fundraiser and former Democratic National Committee chairman.
Jill McCabe's campaign also received more than $207,000 from the Democratic Party of Virginia, over which McAuliffe exerted significant control.
Common Good VA was the largest single donor to the McCabe campaign.
The president vented at McCabe Thursday on Twitter, saying he was a 'puppet' for Comey
Trump dismissed McCabe Thursday on Twitter, referring to his firing.
'Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a 'poor little Angel' when in fact he was a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax - a puppet for Leakin' James Comey,' Trump wrote.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement read on MSNBC that McCabe 'was fired in total disgrace from the FBI because he lied to investigators on multiple occasions, including under oath.'
'His selfish and destructive agenda drove him to open a completely baseless investigation into the President. His actions were so shameful that he was referred to federal prosecutors. Andrew McCabe has no credibility and is an embarrassment to the men and women of the FBI and our great country.'
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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