That isn't at all what we on the right are saying.
DOJ Report To Knock Trump’s Favorite FBI Foil Over Leak That Helped Trump’s Own Campaign
Andrew McCabe, the former acting FBI director whom Trump has pilloried, apparently okayed the disclosure of information that hurt the Clinton campaign.
WASHINGTON ― The Justice Department’s top oversight official is set to release a report slamming an FBI official President Donald Trump has portrayed as a Hillary Clinton stooge — for allegedly authorizing leaks of information that hurt Clinton’s campaign.
Trump and his supporters have used the fact that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s wife ran for a state Senate seat as a Democrat to paint him as a Democratic partisan out to get Trump. Despite irrefutable evidence that the bureau’s public actions before the election actually hurt Clinton, Trump defenders on Capitol Hill and on Fox News have spun up a narrative alleging that the FBI leaked information ahead of the election to damage Trump.
The long-anticipated report from the Justice Department’s inspector general ― likely to be released this month or next ― could further undermine that already ridiculous claim. Trump and his allies have suggested that McCabe leaked information that hurt Trump and helped Clinton. But the IG’s forthcoming report is set to reveal the opposite: McCabe authorized leaks that damaged Clinton and aided Trump.
The IG, who has been looking into the FBI’s handling of the probe since before Trump’s inauguration, will criticize McCabe for authorizing discussions with a Wall Street Journal reporter for an Oct. 30, 2016, story that suggested President Barack Obama’s Justice Department was improperly pressuring the FBI to drop a probe of the Clinton Foundation, The New York Times reported on Thursday night.
The Oct. 30, 2016, WSJ story portrays McCabe as caught between FBI agents who wanted to push the Clinton Foundation investigation and Justice Department officials upset the probe was being pursued so close to the election.
In the story, a person “close to Mr. McCabe” ― likely bureau lawyer and senior McCabe adviser Lisa Page ― revealed that a Justice Department official called McCabe on Aug. 12 and was “very pissed off” that the New York office was pursuing the Clinton Foundation investigation:
“Are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?” Mr. McCabe asked, according to people familiar with the conversation. After a pause, the official replied, “Of course not,” these people said.
More: DOJ Report To Knock Trump's Favorite FBI Foil Over Leak That Helped Trump's Own Campaign
So, McCabe released information that hurt Hillary and helped Trump so close to the election. How will Trump and his supporters spin this? Hillary was so unfairly cheated out of the presidency on so many levels.
We're saying mccabe used the hillary dossier to get a fisa warrant that put them over the top to get it
We've never said mccabe tried to get trump elected.
talk about circular reasoning.
The FBI leaked the report????
That leaves a lot of open territory.
This thread is a fail
McCabe did not. Comey testified to Congress that some of it was verified. That suggests the FBI already had some of the information in the dossier. You are a fail.
