Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), said President Trump is aiming to have the Department of Justice (DOJ) return to “pre-1970s days” after the agency fired several prosecutors who handled the president’s criminal investigations.

“This is a complete undermining of that system and essentially a return to those pre-1970s days where government jobs were filled by political hacks who simply did the will of the administration,” McCabe said during a Tuesday CNN appearance.

“That‘s clearly where the Trump Administration is trying to take the Department of Justice."

The DOJ’s cited "trust issues" as the reason for its recent decision to

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