Jeffrey Toobin | Donald Trump and the Craven Firing of Andrew McCabe




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In celebrating the dismissal of the FBI's deputy director, President Trump displays the pettiness and the vindictiveness of a man unsuited to the job he holds. (photo: Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
Toobin writes: "If you wanted to tell the story of an entire Presidency in a single tweet, you could try the one that President Trump posted after Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the F.B.I., on Friday night."
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