Andy McCabe

You will recall that when Trump was president, he went out of his way to try to make James Comey, the then director of the FBI, into one of his toadies, asking him for personal loyalty and asking him to stop investigatitng his National Security Advisor, Mike Flynn. Comey wouldn't complu and so Trump had him fired.

The man who took Comey's place as director of the FBI was deputy director Andy McCabe. From the start of his tenure, Andy spoke truth to power, and that angered Trump. Trump had spread the lie that Comey had been vastly disliked at the FBI and that the Bureau was glad Trump had fired him. Andy told both Trump and Congress that this was not true ...



And then Andy had the FBI open an investigation into Trump and Russia and the election ... that guaranteed Trump would work to destroy Andy's carreer. Andy was due to retire that year, and Trump made sure that he was fired, under a cloud, just hours before his retirement, dooming both his reputation and his pension ...

Andy brought a lawsuit to clear his name and save his pension, and he has now been vindicated.

If you want to know more about all that happened and to know more about Andy McCabe, read his book, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump. I thought it was really good.