McCabe lawyer fires back at Trump: ‘You need to stop lying’

A lawyer representing former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe issued a sharp rebuke of President Trump on Friday after the president continued hammering the former No. 2 FBI official on Twitter.

“What prompts you to defame the McCabes every two weeks or so?” Michael Bromwich, a lawyer for McCabe, wrote on Twitter.

“There was no quid pro quo, as you falsely suggest. There was no misuse of campaign funds, as you have repeatedly and falsely suggested. You need to stop lying about the McCabes.”

What prompts you to defame the McCabes every two weeks or so? There was no quid pro quo, as you falsely suggest. There was no misuse of campaign funds, as you have repeatedly and falsely suggested. You need to stop lying about the McCabes. https://t.co/exQffv4O2i

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

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Bromwich was responding to a tweet from Trump sent Friday morning in which the president insisted McCabe should be investigated for money donated to his wife Jill McCabe’s campaign by top Clinton ally and former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) during her unsuccessful run for Virginia state Senate. 

Why isn’t disgraced FBI official Andrew McCabe being investigated for the $700,000 Crooked Hillary Democrats in Virginia, led by Clinton best friend Terry M (under FBI investigation that they killed) gave to McCabe’s wife in her run for office? Then dropped case on Clinton!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2018

In March, Bromwich said that he was not going to take the time to respond to every “childish, defamatory, disgusting and false” tweet from Trump about McCabe.

“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,” the lawyer wrote.

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

McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions earlier this year, days before his pension was supposed to go into effect.

The former senior FBI official has denied any wrongdoing but was the subject of a criminal referral from the Justice Department’s inspector general before his ouster.

McCabe allegedly “lacked candor” when speaking to investigators and made an unauthorized disclosure to the media during the 2016 election, according to Sessions.

Bromwich ripped the referral last month as “unjustified” while McCabe has maintained he acted within his authority in authorizing the disclosure.