The Justice Department has told former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe it isn't prosecuting him and it considers the matter 'closed' – despite the president's string of furious tweets about McCabe and a judge's warning the a prolonged investigation had a whiff of retribution.Federal prosecutors closed an investigation into whether McCabe lied to federal officials about his involvement in a news media disclosure, McCabe's legal team said Friday.
The end of the two-year probe of McCabe came just hours before it was revealed a federal judge scolded prosecutors and flagged President Trump's repeated tweets on the case as being like a 'banana republic.'
U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Barnett Walton made the comment as he heard a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in relation to the case.
'The public is listening to what's going on, and I don't think people like the fact that you've got somebody at the top basically trying to dictate whether somebody should be prosecuted,' Walton, a George W. Bush appointee, told prosecutors in September.