Maybe I’m just old fashioned, but I long for the days when someone who not only was in jeopardy of criminal prosecution, but already had been recommended for prosecution, had the good sense to keep his mouth shut.  Those days ended when Donald Trump was elected President.  First, James Comey was fired under circumstances under which he was likely to be prosecuted for lying to investigators.  He wrote a book and did numerous interviews.  Now comes Andrew McCabe.   When Comey was fired McCabe became the acting FBI Director.  Later, McCabe was fired from the FBI for a repeated lack of candor.  Translation – McCabe was caught in numerous lies, some of them under oath before Congress, and he was recommended for prosecution by the Justice Department.  Ordinarily, someone facing such a fate would heed his counsel’s advice and keep his mouth shut.  He didn’t.  He wrote a book, and now is doing the rounds of television interviews to promote the book.  McCabe went on 60 Minutes.  Then he went on The View, featuring the original cast of the opening scene of Macbeth.  What McCabe said proved that Fox News, Mark Levin, Sara Carter and Kimberly Strassel were right when they reported, almost two years ago, that the FBI and Justice Department attempted a coup de etat against Donald Trump in an effort to remove him from office.  Two years ago, the mainstream media said such an allegation was preposterous, and they are still denying any wrongdoing by the FBI now.  No matter how dark it gets, keep pulling down the shades, right?  What Andrew McCabe said was chilling, and had the victim of the FBI and Justice Department conduct been anyone other than Donald Trump, it would be the biggest scandal in American history.  Since only Donald Trump was the victim, the mainstream media doesn’t care.  After James Comey was fired, McCabe says he ordered two investigations of the president himself.  They asked two questions.  One,  Trump fire Comey to impede the investigation into whether Russia interfered with the election; and two, if so, Trump acting on behalf of the Russian government.   McCabe told 60 Minutes, “I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid ground in an indelible fashion that were I removed quickly or reassigned or fired that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace.”  How inspiring!  McCabe was acting as a patriot, to protect his country.  McCabe’s story would be compelling, but for the fact that we have so much information proving that it’s a total lie.  McCabe is claiming that there was evidence suggesting that Trump may have been working for the Russians because, “The president had been speaking in a derogatory way about our investigative efforts for weeks, describing it as a witch hunt…” That’s certainly evidential.  Trump objected to being framed for something that he didn’t do.  How dare he?  McCabe told interviewers on TV that he began the counter-intelligence investigation in May of 2017 because there was evidence that Trump might be a Russian agent.  How patriotic!  There’s only one problem with McCabe’s explanation.  It’s a blatant lie.  Justice Department official Bruce Ohr has testified that in July of 2016, that’s right even before the election, he told people in the Justice Department and FBI, including McCabe, for some reason Hillary loving,  Mueller attack dog, Andrew Weissman, Rod Rosenstein and an aide to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, that the Steele dossier was an unverified opposition research hit piece, paid for by the Hillary campaign.  Ohr said, “I told them that Chris Steele was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected.” “I don’t know how reliable it is.  You’re going to have to check it out and be aware.  These guys were hired by somebody relating to—who’s related to the Clinton campaign, and be aware.”  Despite the warning, the FBI did nothing to corroborate the dossier, or to verify any of its contents, despite using it to get FISA warrants that they extended three times, from 2016 to 2017.  This means that when McCabe opened his counter-intelligence investigation on Trump, he already knew there had been no Russian collusion.  But there’s more.  McCabe went on to say that Rod Rosenstein, the man who signed off on the FISA warrants, and who appointed Mueller as the independent counsel, did offer to wear a wire when he went to the White House to speak with the President.  Translation – the FBI and Justice secretly turned Donald Trump from the Chief Executive to a criminal target from whom they were secretly trying to obtain evidence to remove him from office.  According to McCabe, Rosenstein discussed using the 25th Amendment to remove Trump.  That’s a constitutional provision which permits a president’s cabinet to declare the president unable to perform his office when he is physically or mentally disabled.  The Justice Department plays no role in the process, other than the Attorney General having a vote.  Trump’s crime?   He called the investigation a witch hunt and fired Comey.  The FBI decided Trump had to go.  McCabe claims that he notified Congressional leaders, and that none of them objected.  Trey Gowdy says that didn’t happen, but even if it did, the question is what McCabe told them.  I’m sure McCabe didn’t tell them the whole stinking mess was based on the unverified crap in the dossier.  After all, they didn’t even tell the FISA court that much.  The Congress had the right to assume that the FBI was acting within the law, so of course they didn’t object.  McCabe’s explanations simply don’t wash.  Moreover, they are insulting.  McCabe would have us believe that he did what he did for his country.  Bull crap!  He did what he did to remove a duly elected president because that’s what Il Duce Obama wanted done.  Now he’s pretending to be a patriot.  Let me remind you of the words of Samuel Johnson. “Patriotism is the last refuge for a scoundrel”?
When all else fails, the scoundrel relies on “I did it because I love my country.”  Well, I love my country too, and I want no part of a police state.