https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/14/politics/fact-check-trump-mccabe-clinton-mcauliffe/index.html
In what may be a new record for President Donald Trump, he made four false claims in one sentence of a tweet on Saturday.
The
sentence was about Hillary Clinton, Trump's 2016 election opponent, and
Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director and acting director of the
FBI.
Trump has regularly blasted McCabe in
tweets and public remarks. His Saturday sentence on Twitter: "Was Andy
McCabe ever forced to pay back the $700,000 illegally given to him and
his wife, for his wife's political campaign, by Crooked Hillary Clinton
while Hillary was under FBI investigation, and McCabe was the head of
the FBI???"
Almost everything he said was inaccurate. Let's break down the sentence point by point.
Trump was referring to $675,288 that was donated to the unsuccessful 2015 Virginia state Senate campaign of McCabe's wife, Dr. Jill McCabe: $207,788 from the state Democratic Party and $467,500 from Common Good VA, the political action committee (PAC) of then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
There
is simply no evidence that any of the donations, which were publicly
reported in Jill McCabe's financial filings, broke the law. Trump has a long history of wrongly accusing his opponents of illegal behavior.