The day after he fired James Comey as director of the FBI, a furious President Donald Trump called the bureau's acting director, Andrew McCabe, demanding to know why Comey had been allowed to fly on an FBI plane from Los Angeles back to Washington after he was dismissed, according to multiple people familiar with the phone call.
McCabe told the president he hadn’t been asked to authorize Comey’s flight, but if anyone had asked, he would have approved it, three people familiar with the call recounted to NBC News.
The president was silent for a moment and then turned on McCabe, suggesting he ask his wife how it feels to be a loser — an apparent reference to a failed campaign for state office in Virginia that McCabe’s wife made in 2015.
McCabe replied, “OK, sir.” Trump then hung up the phone.
Trump, enraged by TV footage of Comey boarding the government-funded plane hours after his firing, believed that Comey should not have been allowed to take the plane, that any privileges he had received as FBI director should have ceased the moment he was fired, the people familiar with the matter said.
The previously unreported exchange between Trump and McCabe was one of a series of attacks the president aimed at McCabe that fueled tensions between the White House and the Justice Department and culminated Monday with McCabe stepping down as the FBI’s deputy director.
This is ABSOLUTELY unprecedented behavior.
So bizarre, so insane, that it almost defies explanation.
For the record it is completely normal for an FBI Director to get a government plane ride home after being removed from his job.
Trump's anger is simply unreasonable in this circumstance, and speaks to his inability to understand how government works, and his inability to control his hatred for those who dare to defy him.
The fact that he mocked McCabe concerning his wife's losing political campaign is so disgusting that I would only expect that kind of behavior from a sociopath.
This man is sick, and he desperately needs to be removed from office.
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