{"id":628,"date":"2018-03-17T20:23:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T00:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=628"},"modified":"2018-03-17T20:23:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T00:23:19","slug":"andrew-mccabe-fired-f-b-i-deputy-is-said-to-have-kept-memos-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"Andrew McCabe, Fired F.B.I. Deputy, Is Said to Have Kept Memos on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0MATT APUZZO<\/span><\/a><\/span>

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Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. director, was fired late on Friday.<\/span>\u00a0Credit<\/span>Doug Mills\/The New York Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. director\u00a0who was fired late Friday<\/a>, kept contemporaneous memos about his interactions with President Trump and his conversations with the former director James B. Comey, a person close to Mr. McCabe said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The memos could bolster the account of Mr. Comey, whose own memos and testimony describe repeated requests by Mr. Trump to clear his name. Mr. Comey said Mr. Trump\u00a0also asked him<\/a>\u00a0to shut down a criminal investigation into his former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn. Both matters are under investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who is considering whether Mr. Trump tried to obstruct justice.<\/p>\n

Mr. McCabe\u2019s memos were left at the F.B.I., which means that Mr. Mueller\u2019s investigators have access to them as they work to corroborate Mr. Comey\u2019s account. Mr. Trump has denied pressuring Mr. Comey to end the Flynn investigation. Mr. Comey was fired last spring, and the revelation of his conversations with Mr. Trump helped lead to the special counsel\u2019s appointment.<\/p>\n

Mr. McCabe is known to have had at least three meetings with the president. In one, he asked Mr. McCabe how he had voted in the presidential election. In each, he asked about Mr. McCabe\u2019s wife, Jill, who ran a failed campaign as a Democrat for the Virginia State Senate. Mr. McCabe has identified as a lifelong Republican but did not vote in the 2016 presidential race.<\/p>\n

The existence of his memos was first reported\u00a0by The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr. McCabe was fired less than two days before his retirement. Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited what he said was a lack of candor by Mr. McCabe in interviews with internal investigators. His firing had been recommended by career disciplinary officials at the F.B.I.<\/p>\n

Mr. McCabe immediately declared that his firing was part of a Trump administration effort to discredit him and damage the special counsel\u2019s investigation. In an interview, he said he had not made false statements. \u201cThis is part of an effort to discredit me as a witness,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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