We are used to Trump lying. He has told over 20,000 lies since being sworn into office. But in the tweet above, he performed an amazing feat. He told four distinct lies in only one sentence.
Here is how CNN reports it:
Almost everything he said was inaccurate. Let's break down the sentence point by point.
"...the $700,000 illegally given to him and his wife, for his wife's political campaign..."
Facts First: There are two false claims in these 14 words alone. McCabe himself did not receive any donations, and the donations were not illegal.
Trump was referring to $675,288 that was donated to the unsuccessful 2015 Virginia state Senate campaign of McCabe's wife, Dr. Jill McCabe: $207,788 from the state Democratic Partyand $467,500 from Common Good VA, the political action committee (PAC) of then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
There is simply no evidence that any of the donations, which were publicly reported in Jill McCabe's financial filings, broke the law.
"...by Crooked Hillary Clinton..."
Facts First: Clinton did not make any of the donations.
McAuliffe is a longtime friend and political associate of Hillary and Bill Clinton, but there is just no indication the Clintons were responsible in any way for his PAC's giving.
"There is no evidence that Hillary Clinton provided political or financial support to Dr. McCabe's 2015 senate campaign," the Justice Department's inspector general wrote in a 2018 report.
"...and McCabe was the head of the FBI???"
Facts First: Andrew McCabe was not "head of the FBI" in 2015. Rather, he ran the bureau as acting director for nearly three months in 2017 -- long after the donations and his wife's defeat -- after Trump fired director James Comey.
McCabe spent most of 2015 as FBI assistant director in charge of the Washington field office. He became associate deputy director in September 2015
McCabe was promoted to deputy director in February 2016. It was only then, after the donations and his wife's defeat, that he assumed a supervisory role on Clinton investigations.
"By the time McCabe became Deputy Director and assumed supervisory responsibilities for any Clinton-related matters, Dr. McCabe had already lost her election, and no developments in the Clinton-related matters could have any plausible impact on Dr. McCabe's financial interests," the inspector general wrote in 2018.
