CAUGHT ON TAPE: Retired Colonel Reveals How Terry McAuliffe Pushed Him Out of Campaign For Clinton Crony Andrew McCabe’s Wife

RICHMOND — Former Democrat Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe forced Colonel Tom Mulrine out of a state senate race in favor of Jill McCabe, wife of the Clinton-connected FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, whose Hatch Act violation is coming under scrutiny.
The colonel spoke about this at the Democrat party meeting in early 2016, right after the Jill McCabe election, which Democrat McCabe lost. McAullife-associated entities poured nearly $700,000 into McCabe’s failed campaign.
“The topic of discussion is the Virginia 2015 13th District State Senate race, where former Democratic primary candidate Tom Mulrine (a Leesburg VA Lawyer) alleges that then Gov. Terry McAuliffe forced him out of the race in favor of Jill McCabe,” said our tipster.
“Jill McCabe is the wife of fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe who oversaw both the Clinton Email scandal and Trump investigations.”
“The course of events described in the audio took place during the Clinton email investigations which Andrew McCabe was involved in overseeing — alleging an apparent conflict of interest both for Terry McAuliffe and the McCabes in retrospect,” the tipster said.
Colonel Mulrine took aim at McAuliffe directly.
“McAuliffe, the governor, decided who that candidate was going to be, despite the fact that I was assured I would have the support of the Loudoun County Democratic Committee. Now, it might sound like sour grapes. And you know what? It probably is,” Colonel Mulrine said in his remarks.
Mulrine explains how the candidate is supposed to be decided by Democrats in that district, but McAuliffe announced Jill McCabe at a speech in Richmond, instead. Mulrine cited the “boys in Richmond” wanting new Wal-Marts in the area, and people in the district not wanting their home county to be “paved over.”
(READ: Ralph Northam Took Nearly $2 Million From Planned Parenthood).
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe violated his official recusal in the Hillary Clinton email case, according to the inspector general report released Thursday by Michael Horowitz.
McCabe’s links to Clinton are well documented, including the well-defined Hatch Act violation in which McCabe campaigned for his Clinton-connected candidate wife.
According to the Horowitz report:
Recusal Issues
Former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe: As we describe in Chapter Thirteen, in 2015, McCabe’s spouse, Dr. Jill McCabe, ran for a Virginia State Senate seat. During the campaign, Dr. McCabe’s campaign committee received substantial monetary and in-kind contributions, totaling $675,288 or approximately 40 percent of the total contributions raised by Dr. McCabe for her state senate campaign, from then Governor McAuliffe’s Political Action Committee (PAC) and from the Virginia Democratic Party. In addition, on June 26, 2015, Hillary Clinton was the featured speaker at a fundraiser in Virginia hosted by the Virginia Democratic Party and attended by Governor McAuliffe.
At the time his wife sought to run for state senate, McCabe was the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office (WFO) and sought ethics advice from FBI ethics officials and attorneys. We found that FBI ethics officials and attorneys did not fully appreciate the potential significant implications to McCabe and the FBI from campaign donations to Dr. McCabe’s campaign. The FBI did not implement any review of campaign donations to assess potential conflicts or appearance issues that could arise from the donations. On this issue, we believe McCabe did what he was supposed to do by notifying those responsible in the FBI for ethics issues and seeking their guidance.
After McCabe became FBI Deputy Director in February 2016, McCabe had an active role in the supervision of the Midyear investigation, and oversight of the Clinton Foundation investigation, until he recused himself from these investigations on November 1, 2016. McCabe voluntarily recused himself on November 1, at Comey’s urging, as the result of an October 23 article in the Wall Street Journal identifying the substantial donations from McAuliffe’s PAC and the Virginia Democratic Party to Dr. McCabe.
With respect to these investigations, we agreed with the FBI’s chief ethics official that McCabe was not at any time required to recuse under the relevant authorities. However, voluntary recusal is always permissible with the approval of a supervisor or ethics official, which is what McCabe did on November 1. Had the FBI put in place a system for reviewing campaign donations to Dr. McCabe, which were public under Virginia law, the sizable donations from McAuliffe’s PAC and the Virginia Democratic Party may have triggered prior consideration of the very appearance concerns raised in the October 23 WSJ article. Finally, we also found that McCabe did not fully comply with this recusal in a few…
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