Posted on 01/09/2019 1:52:39 AM PST by ransomnote
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave his role in the coming weeks, multiple sources familiar with his plans told ABC News.
Rosenstein has communicated to President Donald Trump and White House officials his plan to depart the administration around the time William Barr, Trump's nominee for attorney general, would take office following a Senate confirmation.
Sources told ABC News Rosenstein wants to ensure a smooth transition to his successor and would accommodate the needs of Barr, should he be confirmed.
Rosenstein apparently had long been thinking he would serve about two years, and there was no indication that he was being forced out at this moment by the president.
Upon the termination of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, speculation mounted that Rosenstein would depart shortly thereafter, yet he's remained in his post as Matt Whitaker has served as acting Attorney General since late November.
Rosenstein oversaw special counsel Robert Mueller's probe for more than a year, after Sessions had recused from the matter over his role in Trump's presidential campaign.
Like other senior leaders within the Justice Department, Rosenstein became a frequent target of Trump's on Twitter, with the president recently re-posting an image of Rosenstein and others behind bars.
In May 2017, shortly after Trump fired James Comey as FBI Director, Rosenstein made the call to appoint Mueller to take over the FBI probe of Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election and any possible ties between Russian operatives and Trump associates.
Trump and his Republican allies have repeatedly blasted that decision. But tensions between Trump and Rosenstein came to a head in September, after reports surfaced saying that, during a meeting in the immediate aftermath of Comey's firing, Rosenstein raised the possibility of secretly recording the president at the White House.
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Rosenstein is not the acting head of DOJ. Whitaker is. And Rosenstein was taken off being the supervisor of Mueller. At some point Trump is going to release the unredacted FISA documents, including the renewal signed by Rosenstein.
Agreed. However, there are currently no congressional committees that are asking for his testimony, much less sending him a subpoena. The House now won't, and the Senate hasn't. It would take some amount of time for that to happen, and Barr will likely be approved by then.
Why wait? I’ll help you pack and leave! Drive you home and give you a kiss good bye.
Rosenstein can run but he can’t hide!
Somehow, I don’t think we have heard the last of Rosenstein.
Still waiting for justice for McCabe, Strzok, Page, Brennan, Hillary, Clapper, Comey et al. One knows it will never happen.
Rosenstein, on the other hand, had given Trump nothing. RR was instrumental in the judicial cover-up of the Uranium One deal. Trump was accustomed to hiring people, giving them a chance and then firing them if they didn’t work out. That cannot happen with much in the government. Whoever recommended RR knew the he was dirty. Was it Maryland Dem Congressman Elijah Cummings, a sly fox? Dems play hardball.
The median tenure for a DAG is 14 months. Consulting and law firms offer them multiples of their less than $200k salaries from the government.
Amazing that it took three “reporters” to leave that out, huh?
Must be hard work writing propaganda...
So glad he’s on the way out. A very rotten apple in the Deep State.
This is yuuuge!
Will Rosenweasel be permitted to slither away and never be required to answer for all the traitorous things he’s done and/or abetted?
I like how the media is now worried about the Mueller investigation, like it started 18 days ago instead of 18 months.
Would you hire this guy, knowing that he has no problem secretly wire taping his BOSS?
I could see him going to some liberal think tank.
I could see him going to some liberal think tank.
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Oh, I could see that, too.
And they would DESERVE him.
That would be a resume-enhancer for firms like Akin Gump Strauss.
It must be that the UniParty and deep state planted Sessions in the Trump campaign.
Is there any other explanation?
Because of Sessions, Mueller is.
Sessions has superceeded Benedict Arnold.
In a just world Sessions would be hung by the people and his corpse dumped in the ocean.
“Trust Sessions “? Spit. You Q people have fallen for another deep state creation/larp.
Neither. Look up how rare it is for the DAG to stay in the job for more than a year or two.
Remember Sally Yates? She was the DAG that Trump fired. She’s working at mega law firm King & Spalding for at least twice what she made in government.
King & Spalding, BTW, used to pay Chris Christie pal and FBI Director Christopher Wray $10 million a year. Why would Way leave that for $200k per year at the FBI, mmm?
Gonna desert his pet dog Mueller....
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