Sounds like wishful thinking to me. I'll believe it when I see it.
This would be a huge “favor” to President Trump from a guy who hates him.
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I thought about this the other night, for some reason, when the coverage of his “jokes” started to wax. What if Rosenstein resigned? This is a double edged sword politically, and not necessarily the favor it looks like on first blush. Yes, it seems to disarm the sharpest criticism of Trump, that he’d be interfering or obstructing. So in that way it’s good. It mutes the laserlike focus of the media to some degree, but there is no way they wont still blame him. You know they will. Rosenstein still gets to claim he was forced out, and he now looks more sympathetic overall. It’s not that being fired doesn’t instantly invoke a mass chorus of sympathy from the media and the left, but now he gets to be portrayed as the noble martyr.
If Rosenstein is resigning, assume all the documents that needed to be destroyed, were destroyed.
No way the weasel would leave until his obstruction was complete.
Also, I'm starting to think that Rosenstein was one of the main sources for Bob Woodward's story. Certainly, it's the first glimpse into how Woodward could have gotten his info about the 25th Amendment.
In any case, Rosenstein resigning likely saves himself being raked over the coals publicly for those actions.