McCabe’s Inadvertent Exposé

If President Trump and his more fervent supporters suddenly don’t sound so paranoid in their “deep state” conspiracy theories, you can thank former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe for validating their fears.

In launching a media tour for his new score-settling book, McCabe confirmed that he and top Justice Department officials plotted recruiting Cabinet members to oust Trump via the 25th Amendment.

He also claimed that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein offered to wear a wire and secretly record the prez in hopes of catching evidence of his unfitness for office.

All of this took place after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in what McCabe considered an attempt to end DOJ’s investigation into alleged collusion with Russia. (Note: There was no real evidence of collusion then, and still isn’t.)

Rosenstein himself has claimed that any such discussions were a wry joke. But McCabe insists they were deadly serious — and were run past DOJ lawyers.

And never mind that the 25th Amendment sets out a carefully prescribed process involving the vice president and the Cabinet — but not the FBI and DOJ.

Yet McCabe — who was fired after being charged with misleading investigators and reportedly himself remains under criminal investigation — tells “60 Minutes” that the highest levels in law enforcement were actively plotting on their own how best to force the president from office.

Little wonder, then, that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is demanding that McCabe testify about what now seems an abundantly clear “bias against Trump” within DOJ.

McCabe may well be exaggerating to feed left-wing fantasies and so boost his book sales. Even so, his claims are damning — of him and his old colleagues.

The president took to Twitter to denounce McCabe as a “disgrace to the FBI and a disgrace to the Country.” Sadly, that doesn’t come off as overkill anymore.