During a 10-minute phone call on March 30, 2017, Trump again called into question McCabe’s loyalty as the call reached a conclusion. “As the conversation ended, he said that he hadn’t brought up the McCabe thing because I had said he was an honorable guy (NOTE: I think he meant that he ‘hadn’t brought it up’ in this conversation, but he could have meant something else),” Comey wrote. “I repeated that he was. He then said he hadn’t brought it up but that McAuliffe is close to the Clintons and had given him money but I had said he was an honorable guy. I repeated that he (Andy) was an honorable person.”

That Comey was memorializing some of his interactions with President Trump was first publicly reported by Michael S. Schmidt for The New York Times in a May 2017 story headlined, “Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation.” But Horowitz’s report marks the first time that the memos, in a largely unredacted form, have been made publicly available. And the extent of Trump’s discussions with Comey about McCabe were not previously known.

All in all, three of the seven memos Comey penned between January and April 2017 involve McCabe. The interactions are also notable given that federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., are reportedly nearing a decision as to whether to indict McCabe on charges of misleading the FBI. McCabe was fired in March of last year over statements he made to internal FBI investigators about disclosures to the Wall Street Journal about internal bureau deliberations over an investigation into the Clinton Foundation, which were detailed in a separate, scathing Horowitz report.

McCabe, for his part, has alleged that he was treated unjustly as a result of Trump’s hostility. Earlier this month, McCabe sued the FBI and the Justice Department, alleging that they engaged in a “politically motivated and retaliatory demotion in January 2018 and public firing in March 2018,” according to the lawsuit. The suit also specifically accuses President Trump of an “unconstitutional desire to punish” McCabe for politically motivated purposes. “It was Trump’s unconstitutional plan and scheme to discredit and remove DOJ and FBI employees who were deemed to be his partisan opponents because they were not politically loyal to him. Plaintiff’s termination was a critical element of Trump’s plan and scheme.” Former attorney general Jeff Sessions fired McCabe a little more than a day before he was scheduled to formally retire and collect his full government pension. In his lawsuit against the Justice Department, McCabe is seeking to restore his good standing and full benefits, retiring as deputy director of the FBI.

It is rare for a high-ranking Justice Department official to face criminal charges. Comey, for instance, managed to avoid prosecution for his handling of the memos, as outlined in Thursday’s report. While Horowitz concluded there was “no evidence” that Comey released classified information to the media in his handling of the memos, the inspector general did write that his “retention, handling, and dissemination of certain Memos violated Department and FBI policies, and his FBI Employment Agreement.”