Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) tore into President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions over the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Friday, saying “it’s how guilty people act.”
“We have to fight back. This is [Trump] punishing anyone involved with #TrumpRussiaInvestigation,” Swalwell tweeted. “It’s how guilty people act.”
The House Intelligence Committee member also hit Sessions for firing McCabe.
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“In Trump’s presence he cowers like a boy, but to sing for his supper he thinks he’s acting like a man doing this,” Swalwell said of Sessions.
Sessions fired McCabe on Friday night, just two days before the former top FBI official was set to retire following more than 20 years at the agency.
Sessions said he dismissed McCabe for not being forthcoming during an inspector general review of his actions at the agency, including McCabe’s decision to let some FBI officials talk to the media about a probe into the Clinton Foundation.
McCabe claimed that his dismissal was an attempt to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s election interference, in which he is viewed as a likely witness.