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Andrew McCabe Says He’s Afraid DOJ Might Come After Him: ‘Who Wouldn’t Be?’

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Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe admitted Sunday that he fears he could be targeted next after a federal grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey. Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” McCabe suggested that President Donald Trump was weaponizing the Justice Department to punish political opponents.

McCabe, who was fired in 2018 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and later hired as a CNN correspondent, sat down with host Jake Tapper to discuss the fallout from Comey’s indictment. Tapper asked him to weigh in on the case, particularly in light of Trump’s public remarks that more indictments could follow.

“You’re an attorney, you spent more than 20 years at the FBI,” Tapper said. “What do you make of this indictment overall, especially in the context of President Trump exerting public pressure on the Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia? What do you make of this all? And also, his promise that he’s going to go after others — or hopes there will be other political opponents who face prosecution?”

“I mean, there’s only one thing to make of it, Jake,” McCabe replied. “It is absolutely what the president himself characterized it as: It’s vengeance. This is the revenge tour, it’s the tour he promised when he ran for office in 2024. It’s what most of us who have fallen in his crosshairs before expected.”

McCabe said he believed more prosecutions were coming, and not because of legal merit but because of Trump’s personal desire to punish his critics. “His intention is vengeance. That is what he’s going after. I don’t think there’s anything that will stop him,” he continued.

Tapper then pressed McCabe on whether he believed he might soon be in Trump’s sights.

“Are you worried that you’re going to become a target?” Tapper asked.

“Of course. Who wouldn’t be, right?” McCabe responded.

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