Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is suing the Justice Department and FBI over his termination from the bureau last year, arguing that his firing was a politically motivated move stemming from President Trump‘s attacks against him and other Department of Justice (DOJ) officials.
McCabe alleges in the lawsuit filed Thursday that Trump administration officials “responded to Plaintiff’s two decades of unblemished and non-partisan public service with a politically motivated and retaliatory demotion in January 2018 and public firing in March 2018 — on the very night of Plaintiff’s long-planned retirement from the FBI.”
He claims that the actions have harmed his “reputation, professional standing, and dramatically reduced his retirement benefits.”