Despite taking his pension, Donald Trump can’t stop Andrew McCabe from cashing in
Donald Trump had Jeff Sessions fire FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe last night, just hours before McCabe was set to retire with a full pension. It was a vindictive and petty move driven by Trump’s deranged belief that McCabe was some kind of secret Hillary Clinton operative. The move didn’t do Trump one bit of good in his Trump-Russia scandal, as McCabe was never in charge of it. The move has also likely increased McCabe’s net worth exponentially.
We don’t know what Andrew McCabe would or wouldn’t have done if he’d been allowed to retire peacefully. Perhaps he’d have written a book about his experiences under Trump, or perhaps he’d have quietly disappeared. But now that Trump has fired him in such controversial and grotesque fashion, it’s put McCabe in a position to really cash in. If he does write a book, it’ll sell ten times better than it otherwise would have. He’ll be offered lecture circuit opportunities and political punditry jobs.
Seeing how pissed McCabe is, and how loudly he’s already begun speaking out against Trump overnight, he’s now likely to jump on anything that’ll allow him to help take Trump down. Those opportunities will also tend to be much more profitable than whatever he was making as a government employee at the FBI, or whatever his pension might have paid him each month. In fact he may not even lose his pension.
Novel ideas are already being floated around about how to make sure Andrew McCabe gets his pension after all. One of them involves a member of Congress hiring McCabe for a few days in order to get him over the pension line. There’s also buzz about starting a GoFundMe page to crowdfund the equivalent of McCabe’s pension. McCabe can also sue for wrongful termination. Trump took a big sloppy pointless risk just to punish McCabe in the wallet, and it may just make McCabe a wealthy man instead.
