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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Justice’s inspector general disclosed a report that found former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s disclosures to media about an ongoing investigation in 2016 constituted misconduct.

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President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer negotiated a deal in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who said she was impregnated by a top Republican fundraiser, according to people familiar with the matter.

Michael Cohen, whose office, home and hotel room were raided by federal agents this week, arranged the payments to the woman on behalf of Elliott Broidy, a deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee with ties to Mr. Trump, the people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Broidy, a Los Angeles-based venture capitalist, works on the Republican committee with Mr. Cohen, who is also a national deputy finance chairman.

The deal, which hasn’t previously been reported, prohibits the Los Angeles woman from disclosing her alleged relationship with Mr. Broidy in exchange for $1.6 million to be paid to her over two years in quarterly installments, these people said. The first payment was due Dec. 1, according to one of the people.

“I acknowledge I had a consensual relationship with a Playboy Playmate,” Mr. Broidy said in a statement provided by a spokesman. “At the end of our relationship, this woman shared with me that she was pregnant. She alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy and I offered to help her financially during this difficult period.”

On Friday afternoon, after The Wall Street Journal reported on the settlement, Mr. Broidy resigned from his RNC post, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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great job. what started as an investigation into possible collusion between trumps campaign and russia has now turned into a metastasizing operation that is uncovering any large or minor misconduct anyone in the republican party or trumps orbit ever committed.

yeah, that's totally gonna dispel doubts about the fbi's nonpartisanship and prove trump's accusation of a "witch hunt" wrong. :rolleyes:

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The Department of Justice’s inspector general concluded that fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe made a leak to the media “designed to advance his personal interests at the expense of Department leadership,” according to a copy of the report obtained by The Hill.

The report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz makes the case that McCabe authorized disclosures to the media that were designed to combat the perception that he had a conflict of interest in overseeing dual FBI investigations related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“We concluded that McCabe’s decision to confirm the existence of the [Clinton Foundation] Investigation through an anonymously sourced quote, recounting the content of a phone call with a senior Department official in a manner designed to advance his personal interests at the expense of Department leadership, was clearly not within the public interest exception,” Horowitz wrote

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DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!

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It's true, these people aren't poor minorities, law and order shouldn't apply.

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it should. but who the actual fuck cares in a legal sense whether some bigoted RNC official paid off a playmate to keep their relationship a secret?

stuff like that is extremely minor in terms of violation of the law, but makes the RNC/the GOP look really bad. if similar investigations into DNC officials and lawyers took place, we would certainly discover similar misconduct.



what I'm angry about is that the Mueller investigation is used as a justifcation for investigations that have far larger political than legal consequences. the original mandate of the Mueller investigation is abused to obtain legal breadcrumbs, which are then used to inflict significant political damage to trump and his party. this has nothing to do with neutrality or non-partisanship anymore. with this course, Mueller and the FBI are on track to politicize and discredit themselves.

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great job. what started as an investigation into possible collusion between trumps campaign and russia has now turned into a metastasizing operation that is uncovering any large or minor misconduct anyone in the republican party or trumps orbit ever committed.

yeah, that's totally gonna dispel doubts about the fbi's nonpartisanship and prove trump's accusation of a "witch hunt" wrong. :rolleyes:

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pretty much that.