Ex-FBI deputy director Andrew M𝄹cCabe admitted Saturday heඣ was “confused and distracted” when he talked to investigators about alleged misconduct during a 2016 investigation of the Trump campaign.
McCabe “lacked candor” in that interview, Attorney General Jeff Sessions determined, and fired him March 16, two days before he wo🎉uld have be🍒en eligible for a pension.
“Soඣme of my answers were not fully accurate,” McCabe admitted in a , but insist෴ed, “I did not knowingly mislead or lie to investigators.
“When asked about contacts with a reporter that were fully within my power to authorize . . . I answered questions as completely an꧙d accurately as I could,” said McCabe, who was accused of leaking material to the Wall Street Journal.
He added that when he realized that his answers “may have been misunders꧋tood,” he tried to correct them.
“At worst, I wasಞ not clear in my responses, and because of what was going on around me may well have been confused and distracted — and for that I take full responsibility,” McCabe sa🥃id, adding that his misstatements don’t justify President Trump’s “unhinged public attacks on me.”