Why did Trump compare McCabe with J Edgar Hoover today? Does this have several important meanings? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-calls-andrew-mccabe-a-poor-mans-j-edgar-hoover/ar-BBTS8Qb
Some claims about Hoover I found online:
"Hoover could get away with doing whatever he wanted to do with his FBI. The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover was almost completely different from what the country thought it was"
https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=260302289
Hoover threatened MLK and demanded his death?
"You are done. There is but one thing left for you to do."
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html
"Walt Disney was also a close confidante of the FBI, keen to use his studios to help promote the agency"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3248533/Special-agent-Mickey-Mouse-Walt-Disney-s-close-relationship-J-Edgar-Hoover-FBI-revealed.html
"If Hoover didn’t like a certain group or organization, especially political ones, he did what he could to discredit them. He even went so far as to plant false evidence just to get his ideal outcome."
"There was much speculation that Hoover did, in fact, have a romantic relationship with a male FBI co-worker"
"Hoover had a bit of an odd friendship with Shirley Temple. He even took her around the FBI offices in 1938, and showed her how to ride a mechanical horse."
"Hoover could have been the ultimate blackmailer. He had files on over 430,000 Americans"
"Hoover may have been blackmailed himself by the Mob."
"Hoover served as a consultant on the TV series 'The FBI' and made sure he had absolute final say on the script, which generally put the FBI in a positive light."
"Hoover helped Senator Joseph McCarthy round up suspected Communists in the 1950s. He was also a part of the first Red Scare in the early 1920s, having thousands of people deported on account of his belief that they had ties to Communism."
"In the 1960s, the LAPD talked to countless young men in an effort to find the area’s pedophiles. Hoover spent some time every summer in the Los Angeles, and the young men brought Hoover's name up when talking to the police."
https://www.factinate.com/people/32-top-secret-facts-j-edgar-hoover/