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Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:57 pm
by Lord Jim
The cable news channels are on Death Watch as Rod heads to the White House...
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein expecting to be fired
WASHINGTON (WABC) --
A source familiar with the matter tells ABC News that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is heading to the White House Monday morning expecting to be fired.
President Donald Trump had previously sadi he was undecided about whether to fire Rosenstein following reports that he questioned the president's fitness to serve.
Trump told Geraldo Rivera in an interview aired Monday that he's looking at what, if anything, to do about Rosenstein's reported actions.
The New York Times first reported that in 2017, Rosenstein had proposed secretly recording Trump and suggested his removal from office. Trump laid blame for the controversy at the feet of his attorney general.
"He was hired by Jeff Sessions," Trump said in the interview, which was aired on "Fox & Friends." As for Rosenstein's future, Trump says, "We will make a determination. It's certainly a very sad story."
Rosenstein issued a pair of denials, saying The Times report is inaccurate.
https://abc7ny.com/politics/deputy-atto ... d/4326959/
Stay tuned...
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:11 pm
by Big RR
And then Trump will appoint a hack to the position having the responsibility to oversee Mueller's activities, and the hack will end the witch hunt investigation. Hopefully, this will enrage the public and Congress into doing something (after all, the investigation is getting interesting and closer to Trump), but I somehow doubt it will
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:14 pm
by wesw
he may be resigning to take care of some personal matters....
Rosenstein vs Mc Cabe....
....UFC gold, MMA magic
Strok could fight the winner for the swamp championship and a weekend in cancun with lisa page....
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:26 pm
by Lord Jim
(I edited the headline in the article in the OP to change "expected" to "expecting" because that's what the reporting reflects.)
There are a lot of conflicting reports...
One says Rosenstein offered to resign, another says he refused to resign...
Maybe nothing will happen...
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:26 pm
by Sue U
So the Failing New York Times and its Fake News from Phony Unnamed Sources is suddenly now Trump's unimpeachable authority on what Rod Rosenstein said and the circumstances in which the comments were made?
Six weeks before the election should be just the right lead time for the Democrats to make the most of this in the mid-terms. Buh-bye, GOP Congress!
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:29 pm
by Lord Jim
So the Failing New York Times and its Fake News from Phony Unnamed Sources is suddenly now Trump's unimpeachable authority on what Rod Rosenstein said and the circumstances in which the comments were made?
And that Hillary loving anti-Trump deep state conspirator Andrew McCabe...
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:31 pm
by wesw
he was about to be impeached, if he refused to submit to congressional oversight, anyway.......
one more weasel may be gone......
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:38 pm
by wesw
maybe he sarcasricly remarked to john Kelly...., "what do want to me do, resign, john"?
and Kelly said..., "yep, have the letter on my desk by noon, thanks rod, that s all, you know the way out....."
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:42 pm
by Sue U
wesw wrote:he was about to be impeached, if he refused to submit to congressional oversight, anyway.......
Hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!11111!!!11!!1!!!!!!
You really will believe anything the Vichy Trumpublicans say.
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:48 pm
by Lord Jim
he was about to be impeached
What a complete load of grandstanding horseshit...
If Trump's obstruction of justice co-conspirators in the House somehow manage to cobble together the majority needed to impeach Rosenstein, (a big if) it would be DOA in the Senate...
Just another opportunity for the House Vichy Republicans to make themselves look like complete idiots right before the election, and help to swell the dimensions of the Blue Wave...
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:55 pm
by Big RR
and without any chance of succeeding in the senate, I sincerely doubt the House would even entertain an impeachment vote.
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 4:04 pm
by Lord Jim
Paul Ryan has said repeatedly that he won't bring it to the floor for a vote.
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 4:20 pm
by Lord Jim
Well, depending on what source is accurate, Rosenstein has gone to White House to:
resign
be fired
"patch things up" with John Kelly
attend a previously scheduled meeting
I hope that clears things up...
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 4:58 pm
by Lord Jim
Never mind:
Rosenstein and Trump to Meet on Thursday, White House Says
“At the request of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, he and President Trump had an extended conversation to discuss the recent news stories,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement, Bloomberg News reports. “Because the President is at the United Nations General Assembly and has a full schedule with leaders from around the world, they will meet on Thursday when the President returns to Washington, D.C.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... s-jmgj1eq2
Well, that pretty much means that even if Trump was planning to fire Rosenstein, he's backed down, at least for the time being...
If The POS-In-Chief were truly going to fire him, as everyone knows from his track record he's too much of a chickenshit little pussy to ever do it face-to-face; a firing would come in a tweet or in a message delivered by somebody else, never in person...
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 5:38 pm
by Big RR
and to think, he once tried to trademark the phrase, "You're fired".
Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 7:21 pm
by RayThom
... Well, that pretty much means that even if Trump was planning to fire Rosenstein, he's backed down, at least for the time being... If The POS-In-Chief were truly going to fire him, as everyone knows from his track record he's too much of chickenshit little pussy to ever do it face-to-face; a firing would come in a tweet or in a message delivered by somebody else, never in person...
I disagree. I think Lord Dampnut is looking for a fresh news cycle so as to appear super presidential and instill in the voting public a resolve that will resonate strongly for his sycophant, Repugs on November 6th.
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:42 pm
by Sue U
RayThom wrote:I think Lord Dampnut is looking for a fresh news cycle so as to appear super presidential and instill in the voting public a resolve that will resonate strongly for his sycophant, Repugs on November 6th.
I think this is actually on target; firing Rosenstein today would step all over coverage of Trump's scheduled performance at the UN tomorrow morning, and he definitely wants all eyes on him. After all, what could go wrong?
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:31 pm
by Burning Petard
I heard on early morning (about 0610 EDT) NPR radio that the Asst Attny Gen'l had resigned, and that existing law for these kind of positions meant that he would be replaced by the Solicitor General and POTUS would not chose the replacement, unless he first fired the 'new' asst attny genl, the then former Solicitor General. That is why resignation was the better tactic over waiting to be fired.
Later in the news cycle all that became very fuzzy. Seems to me accurate information about this is just not to be had at this time.
snailgate.
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:45 pm
by wesw
yeah, BP, don t be a sheep.
you are worthy of more.
Re: Rosenstein May Be Out...
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 1:49 am
by Lord Jim
"yeah, BP, don t be a sheep."
Wes bleats out some advice, between baas...