Today’s news has been confusing. Did McCabe simply reach the point where he could ride out the rest of his term on vacation, before retiring? Or was he forced to quit? If so, does this mean Rosenstein is next? What about Wray’s previous assertions that he wouldn’t let McCabe get fired?
It’s now become clear that McCabe did not step down by choice. Wray had a role in it, and he was pressured by Trump and the WH. This doesn’t look good, especially as Nunes is getting ready to spill his super secret memo (which is now very clearly a complete pile of nonsense) obviously intended to create pretext for firing Rosenstein.
There’s one positive sign in all of this confusion. Right wingers and Russian bots on Twitter are freaking out about McCabe’s replacement. Bowdich was hired by Mueller when he was director, and has worked closely with McCabe and Comey.
Here’s a sampling of the RW responses: