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Andrew McCabe, the former acting director of the FBI, says President Trump’s treatment of the bureau and its probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign was so profoundly disturbing during the spring of 2017 that Justice Department officials discussed contacting Cabinet members to initiate Trump’s removal from office under the 25th Amendment.

That remarkable statement comes from the man who took over when Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. But it is only the beginning of McCabe’s revelations about the relationship between the nation’s leading law enforcement agency and the 45th president.

The tension in that relationship is palpable even in the title of McCabe’s memoir, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump. The publication date is Feb. 19, but the most explosive assertions burst into the news Thursday when CBS aired portions of its upcoming interview with McCabe (set to air Sunday on 60 Minutes).

That interview includes specific statements from McCabe regarding the 25th Amendment discussions and confirmation that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein once speculated about “wearing a wire” to record a conversation with Trump without the president’s knowledge.

McCabe’s ‘The Threat’ May Be Darkest Vision Of Trump Presidency Yet

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