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Senators: Rosenstein knew Trump would fire Comey before memo
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/deputy-...tors-say/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=37765453
Lock (him) up if old
Lord Frieza
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So, I mean...he signed off on this knowing Trump was going to do it to...soften the blow, I guess, but then Trump blabbed that he planned to do it which made any deflection Rosentein did totally pointless and just made it look like the admin was just throwing him under the bus?
Shit.
Show.
Shit.
Show.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Wait... what?
BlazinSkatinAxel
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A double twist.... Hmmm.
Lord Frieza
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This part seems particularly important:
I get the distinct feeling he's trying to cover for Sessions here.
Other senators who attended Rosenstein's briefing said that Rosenstein didn't address who asked him to write the memo.
"He would not answer that question," Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, said. "He would not completely answer that question."
I get the distinct feeling he's trying to cover for Sessions here.
This part seems particularly important:
I get the distinct feeling he's trying to cover for Sessions here.
It was Comey himself.
Keikaku doori
This part seems particularly important:
I get the distinct feeling he's trying to cover for Sessions here.
A leak saved for later
So why did he write the memo recommending removing him again?
He probably thought the White House was going to use it to bolster their case, not point to it as their primary reason.
This part seems particularly important:
I get the distinct feeling he's trying to cover for Sessions here.
I get the idea he's covering for Trump. I think Trump called them up and said, I'm going to fire Comey, write recommendations with good reasons.
Lord Frieza
Member
I mean, this really just makes Rosenstein look pretty bad, because it sounds like he was writing this memo to deflect the controversy of the fire that would come with canning Comey to himself over Trump willingly, as opposed to being thrown under the bus without realizing it like it seemed.
Not sure what the game here is, but he obviously wants to go on the record about this. Super weird that he won't say who actually gave him the order. He seems to be both covering up for someone, while throwing Trump under the bus more, and making himself look bad by willingly being part in a move that could be interpreted as obstruction of justice.
Not sure what the game here is, but he obviously wants to go on the record about this. Super weird that he won't say who actually gave him the order. He seems to be both covering up for someone, while throwing Trump under the bus more, and making himself look bad by willingly being part in a move that could be interpreted as obstruction of justice.
Lord Frieza
Member
I get the idea he's covering for Trump. I think Trump called them up and said, I'm going to fire Comey, write recommendations with good reasons.
He's definitely not covering for Trump. He's adding to the fact that Trump planned to fire him before the recommendation came in. I mean, Trump himself said this, but he's specifically going on the record to confirm it, or at least that's how I'm reading it.
Lord Frieza
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I really don't know what to make of Rosenstein in this whole mess. Looking back at all of this, he's probably going to be one of those figures in the story that is understated but whose role was significant in a lot of different ways.
Who ever he is covering for is more like he is just buying time for the FBI and Mueller now. Trying to walk that fine line of appeasing Trump and his cronies while doing his job.
Leaning towards this. Probably figured the best way to clean this mess up was to take it out of all their hands.
This part seems particularly important:
I get the distinct feeling he's trying to cover for Sessions here.
From the recent NYT article on Comey's interactions with Trump:
Mr. Wittes said that in another conversation he told Mr. Comey he was encouraged by the fact that the Senate was likely to confirm Rod J. Rosenstein, a longtime federal prosecutor, as the deputy attorney general.
To Mr. Wittess surprise, Mr. Comey did not completely agree with him.
He said, I dont know. I have some concerns. Hes good, hes solid but hes also a survivor and you dont survive that long without making some compromises and Im concerned about that.
Basically it sounds like someone treating what would usually be a routine job ("I'm about to let someone go, I need you to write up reasons for them to be let go") but absolutely isn't routine given the circumstances ("That someone is the man investigating my campaign") as though it were routine and then having it lied about ("The President fired him on the DAG's recommendation")