McCabe claims further Russia declassifications could cast Trump ‘in a very negative light’

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Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe seemed to try to warn President Trump off from declassifying further information related to the Trump-Russia investigation, saying that there was still secretive classified intelligence that could “risk casting the president in a very negative light.”

McCabe signed off on the fourth and final Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant targeting Trump campaign associate Carter Page after former FBI Director James Comey was fired in 2017, but he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he wouldn’t have done so if he knew then what he knows now about the flaws with the bureau’s FISA applications.

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