Trump accuses McCabe of fabricating the memos he gave Mueller: 'Can we call them Fake Memos?'
Fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe created memos documenting his conversations with President Trump and former FBI Director James Comey, The Associated Press reports. He has given the files to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and has also granted Mueller an interview about the circumstances surrounding Comey's ouster last year.
Comey also made private memos detailing his interactions with Trump and leaked them to the media via a friend. Axios reports the McCabe memos corroborate Comey's account of his own firing. "I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played, the actions I took, and the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey," McCabe said in his statement on his Friday firing.
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Trump also reiterated his accusation that McCabe abused his position in exchange for donations to his wife's Democratic congressional campaign; remade his case that the Mueller inquiry is a "WITCH HUNT" and investigators instead should probe the FBI, the State Department, and Hillary Clinton; and cited Fox & Friends for an allegation that Comey lied under oath when testifying to Congress.
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