President Trump on Sunday said former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe wrote memos about their interactions to further his own agenda.
“Spent very little time with Andrew McCabe, but he never took notes when he was with me,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
“I don’t believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. Same with lying James Comey. Can we call them Fake Memos?”
{mosads}The tweet from the president comes after Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday that he fired McCabe for leaking to the media and misleading congressional investigators.
McCabe, who was the No. 2 official at the FBI, reportedly provided special counsel Robert Mueller’s team with memos describing his contacts with the president.
Former FBI Director James Comey, who Trump fired last May, told a Senate panel last year that shortly after he was dismissed, he authorized “a close friend” to leak the contents of a memo to the media in order to prompt a special counsel investigation.
“I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter,” said Comey.
“I didn’t do it myself for a variety of reasons but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.”