{"id":396064,"date":"2019-02-17T08:10:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T07:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/former-fbi-deputy-director-confirms-fbi-justice-officials-discussed-removing-trump\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T08:10:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T07:10:20","slug":"former-fbi-deputy-director-confirms-fbi-justice-officials-discussed-removing-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/former-fbi-deputy-director-confirms-fbi-justice-officials-discussed-removing-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FBI deputy director confirms FBI, Justice officials discussed removing Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Former FBI deputy director confirms FBI, Justice officials discussed removing Trump<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Barry Grey<br \/>\n    <br \/>16 February 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In an interview with CBS News\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes\u201d program, to be aired on Sunday, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe confirms previously published reports that he and top Justice Department officials discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution to remove Trump from office.<\/p>\n<p>McCabe also describes how, two days after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May of 2017, he secretly launched a criminal obstruction of justice investigation and a counterintelligence investigation against Trump. McCabe became acting FBI director following Comey\u2019s ouster, carried out by Trump in an attempt to block the intelligence agencies\u2019 investigation into allegations of Russian \u201cmeddling\u201d in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion by the Trump election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>McCabe makes it clear in the interview, an excerpt of which was broadcast Thursday on the \u201cCBS This Morning\u201d television program, that he was motivated by political opposition to Trump\u2019s evident reluctance to aggressively pursue the policy of confrontation with Russia in Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere, initiated by the Obama administration and supported by the intelligence agencies and the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip from the interview shown on \u201cCBS This Morning,\u201d McCabe tells interviewer Scott Pelley he was \u201ctroubled greatly\u201d by the fact that \u201cthe man who had just run for the presidency and won the election for the presidency\u2026 might have done so with the aid of Russia, our most formidable adversary on the world stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the official who then headed the state organization historically most directly associated with illegal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/02\/16\/coup-f16.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Former FBI deputy director confirms FBI, Justice officials discussed removing Trump By Barry Grey 16 February 2019 In an interview with CBS News\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes\u201d program, to be aired on Sunday, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe confirms previously published reports that he and top Justice Department officials discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}