Former FBI deputy director's GoFundMe for legal defense raises over $250k in 6 hours

It's been a pretty strange year for politics. It's even stranger now that major political figures are crowdfunding their legal fees. 

A GoFundMe stetup by "Friends of Andrew McCabe" launched Thursday to pay for the former FBI deputy director's legal defense fund. 

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McCabe's GoFundMe is not only trending, it's also raised a tremendous amount of money in the past few hours. As of the time of writing, it had raised $252,892 in just six short hours. People have been donating so quickly that the campaign increased its goal to $250,000 after it met its original $150,000 goal in less than four hours.  Read more...

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