McCabe lawyer: We won’t respond to every ‘childish, defamatory, disgusting and false’ Trump tweet

The lawyer representing ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Sunday said President Trump’s “childish, defamatory” tweets show the president “corrupted” the process leading up to McCabe’s ouster.

“We will not be responding to each childish, defamatory, disgusting &
false tweet by the President,” Michael Bromwich tweeted.

“The whole truth will come out in due course. But the tweets confirm that he has corrupted the entire process that led to Mr. McCabe’s termination and has rendered it illegitimate,” he continued.

We will not be responding to each childish, defamatory, disgusting &
false tweet by the President. The whole truth will come out in due
course. But the tweets confirm that he has corrupted the entire
process that led to Mr. McCabe’s termination and has rendered it
illegitimate.

— Michael R. Bromwich (@mrbromwich) March 18, 2018

Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe on Friday for not being forthcoming with investigators during an inspector general review. McCabe was forced out just days before he was set to retire.

Trump, who has personally attacked McCabe in the past and alleged he was biased, praised that decision on Twitter, accusing McCabe of corrupt tactics and calling his firing a “great day for democracy.”

“Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI,” Trump tweeted hours after McCabe’s firing.

McCabe has spoken out since he was fired. He argued that his ouster was driven by the Trump administration in an effort to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.