Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe and current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Washington Post: McCabe memos say Rosenstein considered secretly recording Trump
Memos written by Andrew McCabe, then the acting FBI director, say deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein suggested he secretly record his talks with President Trump, and that Rosenstein discussed possibly trying to remove him from office, according to people familiar with the matter.
The account, first reported by the New York Times, paints Rosenstein as so concerned in May 2017 in the wake of Trump’s firing of then-FBI director James B. Comey that he contemplated secretly recording conversations with the president. He also initiated discussions about invoking the 25th amendment, which details how the Cabinet can decide whether a president is no longer able to discharge the duties of the job, one of the McCabe memos said.
McCabe was fired earlier this year, and a grand jury is weighing possible charges against him for allegedly misleading investigators in a leak probe.
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WNU Editor: The news reports that I am reading right now are just terrible. Someone in the Justice Department was clearly disgusted with what he or she read, and leaked these memos to the New York Times. Kudos to the New York Times for publishing it. It appears that there is also more than one person involved .... including (maybe) Attorney General Sessions himself!!!! No comment yet from President Trump or his office.
