Fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has raised more than $400,000 on GoFundMe to pay for his legal defense less than 24 hours after the crowdfunding page’s Thursday launch.
The GoFundMe page—created by “Friends of Andrew McCabe”—originally sought $150,000 and later $250,000 to pay for defense attorneys to counsel him on congressional inquiries, Justice Department probes into his conduct, and represent him in “any potential lawsuits he might consider.”
But the page has well surpassed this goal—raising $415,898 as of Friday morning.
“Andrew McCabe’s FBI career was long, distinguished, and unblemished,” a statement on the fundraising page reads. “His reward for that has been a termination that was completely unjustified, amidst repeated ad hominem attacks by the President of the United States.”
The page claims that the proceeds of this fundraiser would not be used to fight for his pension and benefits and that any money left over from the defense fund would go to a charity hand-picked by the McCabe family.
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12 comments:
FOX & Friends said 500,000$ this morning.
And they say crime doesn't pay...
ONLY a Fool would fund this man for anything.
He is going to need it.
Guy is worth 10 million(somehow), and drove a 160K Porsche to work. Doesn't sound like the "typical" federal employee. Wonder who else was cutting him checks.
He probably wants to buy his own prison uniforms.
What a jerk. He needs clean hands to go to court, something he doesn't have or the good president would not have kicked him to the curb.
The DNC.
$500K goes a long way when the advice will be "Take the Fifth." He's going to have a lot of it left over for meals and travel and whatever else he wants to buy.
He's getting his pension 100 percent.
5:03 Currently he has forfeited his pension, as funded by you and I (aka, the government). If he was contributing to it personally, he owns the value of his personal contributions and can begin to receive them as the rules state.
The broader point is that this is just a slush fund to encourage his selective silence. His wife got almost $700k from funds tied to former VA governor McAuliffe when she ran for office in 2016; another slushy set-up.
Liberal billionaires like Soros and Steyer top donors.
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