Posted on 09/22/2018 9:03:12 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The New York Times on Saturday defended its bombshell report on Friday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed secretly recording conversations with President Trump last year and proposed the possibility of administration officials invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office.
The Times's deputy managing editor Matt Purdy wrote in a statement Saturday that the newspaper stands by the reporting of its journalists, Mike Schmidt and Adam Goldman, who broke the story.
Citing unnamed sources, the Times reported on Friday that Rosenstein made the remarks just weeks into his job last year following the sudden firing of FBI Director James Comey.
"Just because you don't like the facts, don't comfort yourself by dismissing the story as fake or credulous reporting," Purdy wrote. "The DOJ claim that Rosenstein was sarcastic when he suggested he wear a wire on Trump is not supported by our reporting or others."
"It is the responsibility of the media to report the facts, however comforting or discomforting," Purdy continued.
Purdy's statement came less than a day after the Justice Department circulated a statement from an official who claimed to have been in the room with Rosenstein when he made the alleged remarks. The official, however, said described the remarks as sarcastic in nature.
The Times and other news outlets have fought back frequently against harsh criticism from the president and his administration, who have characterized what they perceive as negative reporting as "fake news."
Rosenstein on Friday fiercely denied the Times's reporting in two separate statements, refusing to address the specifics but stating that he saw no reason to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. The amendment proscribes a process by which a majority of Cabinet members can vote to remove a president deemed unfit to serve.
“The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect,” He said in a statement issued by the Justice Department. “I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda.
"But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment,” the deputy attorney general added.
What exactly ARE the FACTS here? That the events transpired as reported or as an anonymous source allegedly said they transpired?
while I very much will applaud the day when PDJT grows a pair and FINALLY starts to Drain the damned Swamp.......
FINALLY! After 20 months already, what’s taking him so long?
All we get are tweets and no swamp draining
anyway,
I am also sick and tired of hearing about the NYT and the WashPost and a few additional leftwing outlets and their claiming of “secret sources”...........this is BS.... about all their secret sources are...are the hyoer-active imaginations of their commie/Nazi/leftist editors
“”But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment,” the deputy attorney general added.”
What personal dealings? This guy’s tenure is going to be very short after the mid terms are done. Trump is a man who “keeps a list!”
I wouldn’t make any important decision based on something printed in the New York Times.
I don’t trust the NY times story regarding Rosenstein. I think this is a trap to get Trump to fire Rosenstein so then they can try and get him for obstruction of the SC investigation. If Rosenstein gets fired, I think he can’t be compelled to testify right?
No way the NYT turns on Rosenstein, the attack dog running the DOJ against the President.
” The amendment proscribes a process by which a majority of Cabinet members can vote to remove a president deemed unfit to serve.”
That is simply the first step. Two-thirds of both Houses have to vote to remove the President if he objects to the action of his Cabinet.
1. The 25th Amendment was never intended to be used to remove a President from office permanently due to some "incapacity." The evidence for this is that it is MORE difficult to secure the votes in Congress under the 25th Amendment (two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress) than for a simple impeachment (majority vote in House, two-thirds majority in Senate).
2. Rosenstein is a lawyer who has spent most of his career in various Federal district court roles. He knows this better than anyone.
3. He probably WAS involved in a conversation with someone like Comey about the applicability of the 25th Amendment. If so, his response to Comey was something like this: "Hey, Jim -- I understand how someone as dumb as you can get a law degree, but I'm wondering how you ever passed third grade math."
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THIS.
“A COWARDLY LEADER is the most dangerous of men.”
- Stephen King
20 months and so far the Swamp is still 100 percent intact... and he’s letting a bunch of obvious snakes and moles undermine him from within
I don’t trust the NY times story regarding Rosenstein. I think this is a trap to get Trump to fire Rosenstein so then they can try and get him for obstruction of the SC investigation. If Rosenstein gets fired, I think he can’t be compelled to testify right?
No way the NYT turns on Rosenstein, the attack dog running the DOJ against the President.
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The Deep State piranhas appear to be now eating their own, but this latest has the stench of just another DS setup attempt. There is so much more to the story. You should ask, why would the NY Slimes publish a critical article on their Deep State cohort, Rosenstein? Because the Deep State continues to collude and display their stupidity by telling themselves they are so much smarter than Trump and they’re going to bag their prey one way or the other. So, McCabe’s leak of this latest story is nothing more than an attempt to bait POTUS. The revised Deep State playbook is now to pull out all the stops to goat Trump into firing Rosenstein, which would then be used as an obstruction of justice impeachment charge. The obstruction card is the only one left in their deck. Problem is Trump is not taking the bait. Remember, Rosenstein tried twice in recent weeks to meet with the President, again to set him up and Trump refused both requests. For Trump, just watching these SOB’s sheer desperation as they turn on each other and twist and squirm is sweet revenge - great entertainment. Stew needs to slowly simmer to develop its optimum flavor. Patience everyone. Eventually, the point will be reached where the traitors will not want to show their faces in public. By the way, have you heard anything from Comey later? Do you know why?
Rosenstein = Treason
I am sick to my stomach. One of the guest on Hannity last night said Rosenstein has convinced Trump to delay again disclosing all the redacted material and the FBI 302 interview reports for Bruce Ohr, and the rest.
Trump said he would reveal it all and now it is reported Rosenstein has talked him into not doing so.
I want to scream.
Logical arguments. Clearly, we cannot tell though.
However, what were the “words” that Rosenstein actually used in his denial of the story? Remember always: This is the group that defended Bill Clinton’s definition of “the meaning of “is” is” as a defense against perjury in a rape/assault case against the president!
So, a claim that it was “sarcasm” is useful, isn’t it? Because “sarcasm” means the “words themselves” (the proposal to tape the president during a conversation) were actually correctly quoted.
NYT can’t defend anything. CNN and NYT have credibility anymore. They are twisted propaganda sources, not reporters of fact. Their bias has invalidated positions.
There’s just one answer. It’s some sort of ruse. Why day after day the New York times prints articles that excoriate Trump and now all of a sudden they throw “one of theirs” under the bus? There’s a plan happening. If Trump fires him, Democrats will have 48 days of constantly busting his b__ls. Millions of people are not as educated as those here on FR. They just see the fighting going on. It can get tiresome. Let this play out. What have we got to lose?
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