-Documents Provide Glimpse Of DOJ Efforts To Spin NY Times Story On Rosenstein Wearing Wire, Invoking 25th Amendment

Very little media attention has been paid to the role of former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, which has never ceased to amaze me. Rosenstein has always been a creature of the swamp. He wrote the initial memo outlining the reasons why former FBI Director James Comey should be fired. After Trump fired him, Comey had given his memos to a professor friend to leak to the New York Times. Once the memo story broke, Rosenstein immediately appointed a special counsel to investigate President Trump. And not just anyone. He broke all of the rules governing special counsels and chose the highly partisan and deeply conflicted Robert Mueller. Rosenstein’s actions have altered the course of the Trump presidency, yet no one questions him. Anyway, on Wednesday, after much stonewalling, watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained 14 pages of documents through a FOIA request originally filed on September 21, 2018. This was the date the New York Times had reported that a group of high-level DOJ and FBI officials had allegedly discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to “remove” President Trump from office in May 2017. During that meeting, the Times claimed that then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had offered to wear a wire to record his private conversations with the President.- More...