Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe called for Congress to speed up their march toward impeaching President Trump on Thursday.
McCabe said there is enough evidence that was outlined in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to look into the matter.
“I think Congress should absolutely move forward with their constitutional obligation to have this information heard. I am not a politician. I’m not a political operative. I wouldn’t dare to predict how that process would affect the election or whether it would result in the President’s removal. I think those are all issues that are far down the road,” he told CNN anchor John Berman.
McCabe accused the White House of delaying and obstructing Congress to prevent Trump’s impeachment.
“I think that they should be moving forward. I think they should be moving forward in a deliberate and careful fashion. They claim to be doing that, but it would be — I think it would be good for them to make a little more progress,” McCabe added.
McCabe had called for impeachment proceedings to start “immediately” last week.
In Mueller’s report, his special counsel’s investigation was unable to find collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian agents. Mueller did note 10 scenarios of possible obstruction in his report but did not make a determination if Trump had obstructed justice.
McCabe was fired from the FBI in 2018, two days before he was going to retire, after the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General determined he misled investigators about leaking information to the Wall Street Journal about the investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
