- President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that the "fake news" media was "beside themselves that [FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe] was caught, called out and fired."
- He also reiterated that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia during the 2016 US election.
- But he added that "as many are now finding out," there was "tremendous leaking, lying and corruption" from the top ranks of the FBI, Department of Justice, and State Department.
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Trump celebrates Andrew McCabe's firing, rages against James Comey and the 'fake news' media
President Donald Trump said Saturday that the "fake news" media is "beside themselves" that "McCabe was caught, called out and fired."
President Donald Trump blasted out a series of tweets Saturday afternoon weighing in on the firing of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe and reiterating that his campaign did not collude with Russia during the 2016 US election.
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Trump's attacks on McCabe, meanwhile, were based on information contained in an October 2016 Wall Street Journal article.
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McCabe's wife, Dr. Jill McCabe, mounted an unsuccessful run for a Virginia state Senate seat in 2015. The Journal reported on October 24, 2016 that her campaign received $675,000 in donations from the Virginia Democratic Party and from Common Good VA, the super PAC run by Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton supporter. None of the donations came from Clinton or her family.
Trump latched onto the revelations, accusing McCabe of corruption and anti-Trump bias, based on his wife's political campaign.
McCabe wasn't in charge of the Clinton investigation at the time, and didn't take on an "oversight role" in the probe until February 2016, long after his wife lost her election bid.
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