Washington (CNN)Jill McCabe on Monday called President Donald Trump’s attacks on her family, culminating in her husband’s firing, a “nightmare.”
The wife of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe called out the President for his public attacks, centered on her 2015 run for the state Senate in Virginia, in a Washington Post op-ed.
“For the past year and a half of this nightmare, I have not been free to speak out about what happened. Now that Andrew has been fired, I am,” wrote Jill McCabe, who is an emergency room pediatrician.
In an introductory Oval Office meeting with Andrew McCabe last May, Trump reportedly asked him who he had voted for in 2016. Trump also cited donations to Jill McCabe’s campaign from Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe as a example of Democrat Hillary Clinton attempting to sway the FBI’s investigation into her email server, despite the fact that those donations came before Andrew McCabe took over as deputy director of the FBI and before he…