Andy McCabe Dumps Cold Water On Dem Outrage Over Arrested Judge

Former FBI Director Andy McCabe — who was fired by President Donald Trump in 2018 — admitted during a recent CNN appearance that the case against a Wisconsin judge appeared to be on solid legal footing, despite the objections of Democrats.

Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested for her role in assisting an illegal alien in his attempts to evade capture by federal immigration authorities — a move which prompted immediate outrage from Democrats who, after years of insisting that “no one is above the law,” claimed that arresting the judge sounded the death knell of democracy.

Though he did concede the legitimacy of the charges against Dugan, McCabe still did his best to suggest that the attacks on Trump’s Justice Department were justified, arguing that the way in which the judge was taken into custody was “unprecedented” and indicative of the Trump administration’s “cruelty.”

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“It’s not an unreasonable complaint,” McCabe said of the charges against Dugan, saying that there was certainly enough evidence to “move beyond the probable cause phase” — but that he took issue with “how the judge was treated after the events that led to the charge.”

“These things are unprecedented, typically upstanding members of the community who have no criminal history and aren’t accused of a violent act are allowed to self surrender at the time of their arraignment,” McCabe said. “The fact that they did not offer that courtesy to her, and instead went out of their way to treat her harshly, I believe is an act of performative cruelty on behalf of the Department of Justice, which is not the way any Department of Justice should be acting.”

Cash Loren posted in response, “These same people were fine with the FBI doing a predawn raid on Trump’s residence heavily armed with permission for deadly force order.”