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Noting that it is essential that Trump continue appointing officials to fill administration posts still occupied by holdovers from former President Barack Obama’s administration, McCarthy said that Trump would have avoided so many problems for himself if he had immediately stocked the government with loyalists.

“So basically it’s a Justice Department that’s being run mainly by people who’ve been stuffed in there by Obama in the last eight years,” McCarthy said, noting that this led to the “epic moment in all of this” mess, when Comey testified in March prior to his firing. During his testimony, Comey said that the Justice Department had authorized his testimony.

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“So to believe that, what you have to believe is that the Trump Justice Department authorized the FBI to tell the public gratuitously that the president was under investigation,” McCarthy said. “You have to have your people in that you can trust to push your agenda. If you don’t, you have what Trump has now, which is basically he’s almost — it seems like he is at war with his own executive branch at times.”

There is still a kernel of hope for the president, McCarthy argued. As talk of impeachment and obstruction of justice continues to permeate the media, McCarthy said that Trump can’t be investigated for obstruction of justice for merely firing Comey unless it qualifies as “corrupt” under the statute.

“The ‘corruption’ as a matter of law means you have to understand that what you’re doing is a violation of law. So if it’s legal, it can’t be corrupt,” McCarthy argued.