Andrew McCabe, Guided Missile

Just-fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe took a leaf from James Comey’s book and made a record of everything pertinent about Russia, Trump, and Trump's lackeys that happened on his watch since Comey was fired (presumably sharing this contemporaneously with colleagues at the FBI). He apparently focused in particular on his interactions with Trump himself.

Hence, McCabe is now positioned to provide Special Counsel Robert Mueller with a wealth of new information and to speak out generally about the reckless, spiteful, spineless, and retaliatory person who sits in the Oval Office masquerading as President and spinning his web of pseudo-autocracy, money laundering, and treason.

Only a fool like Donald Trump (and his handmaiden Jefferson Beauregard Sessions) would so deliberately turn a loyal career FBI agent into a guided missile, sitting on the launch pad ready for “fire and fury” against them both.

Trump claims that McCabe “did not take notes” in any meetings with him. (Of course he didn't, Cadet Bone Spurs. Like Comey, he would wait until one of you left the room before memorializing what had occurred in each unsettling interaction.) 

Although I disdain McCabe's apparent role in demonizing the Clinton Foundation and campaign just before the 2016 presidential election, helping bring about Clinton's election defeat, in the larger scheme of Things Trump, McCabe can help bring Trump down even as McCabe puts up a public fight to regain part or all of his honorably earned pension.

He has a tale to tell and it isn’t pretty.

What Trump fails to appreciate is that true public servants work for the common good and not for his personal aggrandizement. The longer the build-up to this man's downfall, the greater the distance down to bedrock, shame, disgrace, and just maybe a prison term.