Posted on 09/22/2018 1:08:03 PM PDT by John Semmens
This week, a New York Times story about a scheme in which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would wear a “wire” to secretly record President Trump and recruit cabinet members to activate Trump’s removal from office under the provisions of the 25th Amendment was blasted as “inaccurate” and “factually incorrect” by Rosenstein.
“It is shameful that a respected newspaper would rely on anonymous sources to defame me,” Rosenstein complained. “After all I have done to help the Times over the years acquire difficult to obtain information on sensitive topics from internal government archives, I can only regard this as a betrayal. They’re treating me like I am the enemy. I thought we were on the same side in the battle to save the country.”
Adam Goldman, co-author of the Times article with Michael S. Schmidt, acknowledged that “while a couple of our sources asked to remain anonymous their account was backed up by memos purportedly written by former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe that were forwarded to us by a person from the Mueller investigation who also wishes to remain anonymous. So, I’d have to say that our story is as firmly founded as any Times story.”
Rosenstein rejected what he labeled “a poor excuse for shoddy journalism” and asked that “we apply a little logic to this situation. First, based on my prior friendly cooperation the Times reporters should have checked with me before going on the attack. Second, the idea that I would participate in a cumbersome 25th Amendment process in order to rid the country of Trump is absurd. Third, let me point out that McCabe is currently under criminal investigation. Surely, that ought to raise a red flag as to his credibility.”
“Remember, it was me who appointed Mueller as Special Prosecutor,” Rosenstein added. “Given Mueller’s history of going above-and-beyond normal procedures to ensure the convictions of his targets why would I want to mess that up with a lame 25th Amendment gambit? Besides, with the contacts I have in the intelligence community I could easily find a person with the capability to permanently remove Trump from office if the Mueller effort were to fail. I think any reasonable person would have to side with me on this issue.”
Rosenstein’s denials were given short shrift by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace who judged Rosenstein’s protest to be “weak and lawyerly. I’d call it the kind of ‘non-denial denial’ that leaves room for later revisions if the real truth ever comes out.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://azconservative.org/2018/09/22/rosenstein-blasts-times-smear/
It’s obviously enough to get a warrant to spy on him, and using the ‘2-hop rule’, enough to spy on the whole deep state.
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