On the heels of the reassignment of FBI General Counsel James Baker, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is expected to retire early next year, following a "partisan hounding" by Congressional Republicans.
The narrow focus on saving Mueller’s job is misleading.— Subscribe to My Newsletter (@mattyglesias) December 23, 2017
Republicans are carrying out a partisan purge of the FBI and it’s working. https://t.co/tLhIQ63iPA
The President of the United States is a profoundly bad person. pic.twitter.com/YEu9lNbG3D— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) December 23, 2017
The President, along with his pundit and Congressional loyalists, is trying to politicize the FBI in order to diminish its ability to hold him, his family, and his team accountable for potential criminal activities. https://t.co/Rrc2yXPfc4— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) December 23, 2017
There's a lot of talk of a "Saturday night massacre" as if Trump's team can only follow a playbook. Look also for a more gradual purge.— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) December 23, 2017
Consolidation of power isn't always dramatic; the slow gutting of the State Dept is another example of that.
The rush to protect un- indicted co- conspirator Donald "Rump" Trump by his treasonous party has taken on a new urgency, apparently.
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Republicans are the American KGB. Welcome to Amerussia.
Trump and his cohorts' affinity for Russian autocracy is the best "tell" of what they want to do to America.
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