Andrew McCabe, a former FBI official who was fired by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in 2018, said he stood by the original Russia investigation into Donald Trump even after the Durham report showed that the investigation had no real basis.
Former FBI Director Comey and his then-assistant Director McCabe spent years investigating for alleged collusion between Trump and Russia during the 2016 presidential election. The effort got a lot of attention and led then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller to start a probe.
But McCabe tried to dismiss the Durham report’s findings by saying on CNN host Anderson Cooper’s show that it “failed to come up with anything new.”
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“There is nothing new here,” McCabe stressed, insisting that Durham never meant to do an honest investigation into the anti-Trump Russia probe. He said –
“We knew from the very beginning exactly what John Durham was going to conclude, and that’s what we saw today. We knew from the very beginning this was never a legitimate investigation. This was a political errand to exact some sort of retribution on Donald Trump’s perceived enemies and the FBI.”
Cooper asked McCabe to change his mind about how he felt about the original Russia probe, but he wouldn’t. McCabe said –
“I stand by the investigative decisions that we made to open the investigation first on the Trump campaign and the possibility that the Russians were trying to influence it and then later on Donald Trump himself.”
McCabe admitted that “the mistakes with the Carter Page FISA were regrettable, should never have happened.” The U.S. government kept an eye on Carter Page for more than a year because Igor Danchenko said he was a CIA tactical contact and an FBI informant. Danchenko later admitted that he had lied.
McCabe said –
“Had I known about those mistakes in the packages, I never would have signed those applications. And shame on us for not knowing.”
McCabe also said that the Mueller probe was even more important.
“What did we find out from Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation? The Russians did, in fact, influence the campaign. They wanted to. They tried repeated times. They had many, many contacts with the Trump campaign. And several of those people were indicted. So, I guess what we were worried about all along actually happened.”
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