Two weeks into his job as deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein was confronted with a crisis: the president’s firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director.CreditCreditT.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times
New York Times: Rosenstein Suggested He Secretly Record Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment
WASHINGTON — The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office for being unfit.
Mr. Rosenstein made these suggestions in the spring of 2017 when Mr. Trump’s firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director plunged the White House into turmoil. Over the ensuing days, the president divulged classified intelligence to Russians in the Oval Office, and revelations emerged that Mr. Trump had asked Mr. Comey to pledge loyalty and end an investigation into a senior aide.
Mr. Rosenstein was just two weeks into his job. He had begun overseeing the Russia investigation and played a key role in the president’s dismissal of Mr. Comey by writing a memo critical of his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. But Mr. Rosenstein was caught off guard when Mr. Trump cited the memo in the firing, and he began telling people that he feared he had been used.
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WNU Editor: To wear a wire to entrap the U.S. President .... and then use such a recording with the help of a few cabinet members to remove a duly-elected President only a few months into his administration. To say that this is outrageous is an understatement. Even if it did not happen .... but just suggesting it .... it still makes it outrageous. I would love to know who leaked this story to the New Your Times. If true .... and more details corroborating the New York Times story come out .... Deputy Attorney General will have no choice but to resign. If not .... Attorney General Sessions will need to fire him. There is no if or but on this issue. This is insubordination to the nth degree. This also raises a number of questions like this big one. Is this the reason why Deputy Attorney General created the Mueller Counsel .... to replace his initial plan that did not work? This blog said a few days ago that on the topic of Russia-Gate, all roads lead to Assistant Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein. This New York Times report .... if true .... just confirmed it. As for deputy Attorney General Rosenstein .... he is denying these reports. But the damage has been done. Even if he is not fired or dismissed, he will need to recuse himself on all affairs concerning the Trump administration. Here is also an easy prediction .... everyone in the media is right now waiting for a tweet from the U.S. President on this blockbuster news story.
