In a jaw-dropping moment of irony on CNN’s The Situation Room, Andrew McCabe—the disgraced former acting FBI director who was fired for leaking to the media and lying about it—declared that we can’t trust what the government is saying about the Minneapolis riots. This was back in 2020, amid the George Floyd unrest, when McCabe dismissed Trump administration claims of Antifa involvement and widespread violence as untrustworthy propaganda. Coming from a man whose own tenure at the FBI involved spying on a presidential campaign, fabricating FISA warrants, and pushing the debunked Steele dossier, it’s like a fox lecturing farmers on henhouse security. McCabe’s pivot to CNN punditry post-firing only amplifies the hypocrisy: the same guy who weaponized federal power against political foes now cries foul when the feds report facts inconvenient to the left’s narrative.
For the 2A community, McCabe’s slip-up is a goldmine of vindication. It underscores a core truth gun owners have shouted from the rooftops: when the government aligns with one political tribe, its word becomes gospel; when it’s the other side, it’s suddenly a font of lies. Remember, this is the FBI under McCabe that labeled parents at school boards as domestic terrorists and colluded with Big Tech to suppress Hunter Biden laptop stories—yet they demand blind trust on gun control stats or assault weapon bans. The Minneapolis chaos saw storefronts looted, police stations burned, and over 500 arrests, with federal intel later confirming anarchist agitators. McCabe’s distrust rhetoric? It’s the elite’s subconscious admission that institutional bias runs deep, eroding public faith in the very agencies pushing disarmed compliance.
The implications for Second Amendment advocates are crystal clear: never trust a system that picks winners and losers based on ideology. McCabe’s words are a rallying cry—arm up, stay vigilant, and hold the line against those who lecture on trust while shredding the Constitution. If even a deep-state insider admits the feds can’t be believed, it’s prime time for every patriot to double down on self-reliance. The right to keep and bear arms isn’t just a hedge against tyrants; it’s our bulwark when the suits start gaslighting.
