By now you have probably heard that Jeff Sessions fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe just before he could retire and begin collecting a considerable government pension. The prospect of McCabe losing his golden parachute has got liberals very upset for some reason.
Elizabeth Bauer of Forbes says it isn’t clear that McCabe is losing his entire pension, but some Democrats and liberals in media are trying to think of ways to help him anyway.
Kimberly Leonard reports at the Washington Examiner:
Democrats offer to hire Andrew McCabe so he could qualify for his pensionDemocratic lawmakers have offered to hire fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe so that he can qualify for his pension.McCabe’s employment was terminated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions less than 48 hours before he would have qualified for his pension, a day that was also his 50th birthday.Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., asked McCabe on Twitter to “call him.””I could use a good two-day report on the biggest crime families in Washington, D.C.,” he wrote.
Pocan was responding to a comment from “reporter” Andrea Mitchell:
Leonard continues:
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., made a similar offer to McCabe, saying that, “We have to stand up to bullies,” citing President Trump and Sessions, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., urged McCabe to send him a direct message on Twitter to help with his work on the House Judiciary Committee “dealing with threats to the Constitution and the rule of law in America.”
There’s more. Here’s former Hillary adviser Philippe Reines, via Twitchy:
This is a very good point:
Ari Fleischer, former press secretary to George W. Bush, wins the day:
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