Fired FBI deputy Andrew McCabe has given the memos he wrote about Donald Trump to Robert Mueller’s probe
McCabe, who was fired on Friday night, had been keeping notes on his conversations with Trump, just like his ex-boss James Comey
Andrew McCabe, who was fired as FBI deputy director on Friday, has turned over memos on his interactions with US President Donald Trump to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team of Russia collusion investigators.
Mueller’s team of investigators is examining Trump campaign ties to Russia and possible obstruction of justice by the president and some of his entourage.
McCabe’s memos, which recall similar memos made by his former boss, James Comey, include details of his own interactions with the president.
They also recount different conversations he had with Comey, who kept notes on meetings with Trump that unnerved him, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation who wasn’t authorised to discuss the notes publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Though the precise contents are unknown, the memos could possibly help substantiate McCabe’s assertion that he was unfairly maligned by the White House after it declared “war” on the FBI and Mueller’s investigation.
They almost certainly contain, as Comey’s memos did, previously undisclosed details about encounters between the Trump administration and FBI that could be of interest to Mueller.
