Jill McCabe, an emergency room pediatrician and the wife of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, has spoken out for the first time since her husband’s dismissal, calling attacks on her family “false and utterly absurd.”
In a forceful rebuke of the barrage of claims made against her “personal reputation and integrity,” McCabe wrote in an op-ed published in the Washington Post that “I want people to know that the whole story that everything is based on is just false and utterly absurd.”
McCabe said that in the wake of her husband’s firing — which came one day before his planned retirement — she aims to speak freely and set the record straight.
“I am an emergency room pediatrician and an accidental politician — someone who never thought much about politics until I was recruited to run for state office after making a statement about the importance of expanding Medicaid,” she wrote. “That decision — plus some twisted reporting and presidential tweets — ended up costing my husband, Andrew, his job and our family a significant portion of his pension my husband had worked hard for over 21 years of federal service.”
McCabe called the last year and half a “nightmare,” adding, “I have spent countless hours trying to understand how the president and so many others can share such destructive lies about me.”
President Donald Trump targeted the McCabes, unleashing Twitter assaults that called into question Andrew McCabe’s integrity, specifically for his work on the Clinton investigation, and suggested that he had a conflict of interest because his wife’s campaign accepted donations from political groups with ties to McAuliffe and Clinton.
The Fake News is beside themselves that McCabe was caught, called out and fired. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars was given to wife’s campaign by Crooked H friend, Terry M, who was also under investigation? How many lies? How many leaks? Comey knew it all, and much more!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2018
“Ultimately I believe it somehow never occurred to them that I could be a serious, independent-minded physician who wanted to run for office for legitimate reasons.”
McCabe was drafted to run for state office in 2014 after years of…
