Then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe reached out to disgraced former British spy Christopher Steele in May of 2017 in a desperate “Hail Mary” search for anything he could use to take down then-President Donald Trump.
This occurred days after Trump fired disgraced former FBI Director James Comey, according to a report from Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations.
McCabe was so desperate that he reached out to Steele despite the former spy having been fired from the FBI months earlier for misconduct, and despite Comey himself having previously said that his infamous dossier was “salacious and unverified.”
What McCabe specifically wanted, according to Sperry’s sources, was something he could use to pin espionage and obstruction of justice on Trump.
BREAKING: Just-released FBI doc reveals then-FBI Dir Andrew McCabe opened “full investigation” of President Trump on May 16, 2017–the day after FBI re-engaged w/ fired dossier fraudster Chris Steele–to see if Trump “controlled by the Russian Federation”https://t.co/fWtXzMgjxX
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 1, 2025
“In the days following Comey’s firing, McCabe quickly assembled his ‘Russia team’ of investigators, led by Peter Strzok, who was accused of anti-Trump bias when he was later fired by the bureau,” according to Sperry. “McCabe says his team recommended he order a full investigation of the president, which he says he approved on May 10.”
Two days later, McCabe reached out to Steele through senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, whose wife, Nellie, famously worked for the organization that funded the Steele dossier.
This part of the story was confirmed by Ohr himself when he testified during a closed-door House hearing in August of 2018.
“Did the FBI ever encourage you to reach out to try to get additional information from Chris Steele?” then-Rep. Mark Meadows asked him during the hearing.
“Yes, there was one occasion,” Ohr replied. “On one of the occasions when I talked to the FBI to tell them I got a call from Chris Steele, they said, ‘Oh, next time you talk with him, can you ask him if he’s willing to meet with us?’ And I conveyed that back to Chris Steele.”
Russiagate news: in response to my FOIA request, the FBI has released a heavily redacted copy of the Electronic Communication that opened the FBI’s investigation of then-President Donald Trump as a foreign agent of Russia. It’s dated May 16, 2017.
This followed the opening of… pic.twitter.com/BPnB2dHBEd
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) December 31, 2024
The request was made of Ohr reportedly on May 12th. The following day, Ohr informed Steele that McCabe wanted to speak with him. In a text message sent two days later, Steele agreed to restart his engagement with the FBI.
“B[ruce], having now consulted my wife and business partner about the question we discussed on Saturday, I’m pleased to say yes, we should go ahead with it,” he reportedly wrote.
Ohr also confirmed this during the August 2018 hearing.
None of this is a good look for McCabe, who these days serves as a partisan hack for CNN.
“It suggests that McCabe lacked evidence to make an espionage case against Trump and was desperate to find it — even if that meant going back to the same unreliable source of still-unverified dossier dirt,” former federal prosecutor Solomon L. Wisenberg told Sperry.
“What McCabe did is outrageous,” Michael Biasello, a 25-year FBI veteran, added. “And McCabe as a lawyer should have known better. McCabe appears to have violated the law to obtain evidence as part of an effort to subvert a sitting president.”
Sperry’s sources further warned that if the Department of Justice can investigate and spy on a president without hard evidence, the department can do it to ANYONE.
McCabe has for his part defended his decision to open an investigation into Trump, telling various media outlets in 2019 that he’d relied on so-called public information to open a case.
Yet the prosecutors and investigators who were questioned by Sperry all said that none of the publicly available information at the time had been enough to justify launching an FBI investigation.
The irony of all this, according to Sperry, is that McCabe and Steele are two sleazy peas in one sleazy pod.
“An irony is that McCabe was later fired for much the same offenses as Steele’s: leaking and lying about it,” he explained. “Steele was dismissed Nov. 1, 2016, for unauthorized disclosures to the media, including Mother Jones and Yahoo News, and found to have concealed and lied to the FBI about them.”
“[Then-] Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe [in 2018] after the Justice Department’s inspector general found he had repeatedly lied under oath to investigators about leaking information to the press regarding the ongoing Clinton Foundation case,” he continued.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.
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