“Why would they write this? To get Trump angry enough to immediately fire him?”
More likely to get all the FReepers riled up. The NYT knows all their garbage gets reposted here at Free Republic (God knows why).
DOJ has copies of McCabe's contemporaneous notes. How can Rosenstein stay in his present position, including overseeing the Mueller investigation?
And McCabe had turned over all his notes to Mueller. Why wasn't the President notified about this planned coup? Mueller is in trouble as well.