He fired McCabe two days before he was to retire and receive his full benefits. After 21 years of serving the United States with distinction. That's exactly how the corrupt "govern". They abuse the power and weaponize it to exact maximum revenge and delight in punishing their enemies of whom there are always very many. The don is a son of gun. The don is whatever you think he is. There is no core there anywhere. A fascsimile. A faint refrain. An echo. A shadow. A hologram. As Gertrude Stein once said (about Philadephia I think?) "There is no there there". Nothing material.