https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/14/politics/andrew-mccabe-justice-department-investigation/index.htmlQuote
In July 2019, a prosecutor handling the McCabe investigation told a federal judge in a confidential hearing that "there are some minor investigative steps that have been taken recently and are continuing to be taken."
"However, it is fair to say that we are more in a decisional phase than what we would traditionally call an investigative phase," public corruption prosecutor J.P. Cooney of the DC US Attorney's Office said, according to transcripts of hearing and other court records.
Cooney told the judge more than seven months ago that his office was "nearing a decision, but for me to put a date on that is very difficult." He then suggested they'd decide what to do about McCabe by September.
In early September, Cooney was back before the judge, Reggie Walton of the US District Court in DC.
The prosecutor told Walton a public decision on the McCabe investigation and release of information about it were coming "literally within days." By the end of September, Cooney was admitting to the judge his previous timeline was incorrect.
He told Walton it was "an exceedingly difficult matter and situation."
"I don't get it," the judge responded in the closed late September hearing. "I understand there are political implications and other implications involved in reference to whether you go forward."
Walton then zeroed in on the lack of public closure regarding the investigation, comparing Trump's approach to a "banana republic."
"Because the public is listening to what's going on, and I don't think people like the fact that you got somebody at the top basically trying to dictate whether somebody should be prosecuted," the judge said. "I just think it's a banana republic when we go down that road and we have those type of statements being made that are conceivably even if not influencing the ultimate decision, I think there are a lot of people on the outside who perceive that there is undue inappropriate pressure being brought to bear."
So the Department took forever to come to a decision because they knew the facts weren't on their side, but Trump would blow a gasket.
This is why the concept of a deep state is necessary for the cult. Instead of acknowledging that people like Hillary, Comey, and McCabe didn't do anything sufficient enough to warrant a criminal charge, they have to pretend there's some conspiracy in Trump's DOJ, led by Bill Barr, to let these people go.
There's literally nobody on their list of enemies who has been charged with a crime. Nobody. And not a single cultist looks at that and thinks, "hmm, maybe the propaganda I've been fed for 3 years wasn't accurate".