Trump asks for scrutiny of McCabe text messages — with an unfortunate typo


President Trump reiterated his complaints about fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and the FBI more generally in a pair of posts on Twitter Saturday:
Trump has long claimed McCabe abused his position in exchange for donations to his wife's Democratic congressional campaign. The donations came from from a PAC run by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), who was chair of Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign, but McCabe did not have oversight of Clinton's emails investigation until after his wife lost her race. While she was running, the FBI said he "implemented a system of recusal from all FBI investigative matters involving Virginia politics" to avoid conflicts of interest.
The president's vendetta against McCabe is, at this point, well-established, so his tweets mostly garnered attention for an unfortunate typo in their initial incarnation. In his first post, Trump accidentally wrote of the FBI giving "text massages":
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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