The counsel for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe warned Friday that this is “just the beginning,” and his team is considering taking legal action against President Trump, responding to the release of a Justice Department inspector general report which set up his client’s termination last month.
“We have for some time been actively considering filing civil lawsuits against the President and senior members of the Administration that would allege wrongful termination, defamation, Constitutional violations and more,” attorney Michael Bromwich wrote in a statement obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Bromwich warned: “The distinguished Boies Schiller law firm has recently joined us in this project. This is just the beginning.”
The attorney’s threat comes just hours after the Justice Department’s inspector general released a report claiming McCabe “lacked candor” on four separate occasions, three of which were under oath.
The lengthy report was delivered to select congressional committees on Friday, about one month after McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a move that Bromwich labeled “deeply disturbing.”
“I have never before seen the type of rush to judgment – and rush to summary punishment – that we have witnessed in this case,” Bromwich wrote in a statement released promptly after McCabe’s March 16 termination.
Inspector general Michael Horowitz is expected to release a longer, more in-depth report detailing the FBI’s work during the 2016 presidential election in the next few weeks.
