I think RR should be fired just for his panic stricken antics Monday when he thought he was going to be fired (or resignation accepted) and started leaking it.
The stock market dropped because this guy was worried over something that didn’t even happen.
Same as he was upset when Trump fired Comey and started talking about the 25th Amendment and wiring McCabe for the interview. Now he says Trump is fine and 25th not appropriate. What does that say about his judgement ?
The only relevant timing issue is upsetting the election. Also, I think the sourcing on the NYT Rosenstein story should be better understood before Trump acts.
Who wants him to fire RR (and Sessions and Kelly, since they were part of the 25th discussions) now ?
Why did this story take the NYT a year to put together ?
Who gave them the McCabe memos?
Who verified that the memos supposedly by McCabe were accurate?
the NYT is not going to take the word of McCabe alone. And the DOJ is not going to tell the NYT “the memos are accurate, go ahead and publish”.
Who verified the memos were accurate and unaltered?
Frankly, I think the last question points the finger at Mueller, since there isn’t anyone else.
I appreciate that point. There is a lot of political calculus involved to be sure.
Having acknowledged that I do believe that the entire country knows that RR is a corrupt conspirator. Allowing someone like him to remain in his job is like letting termites infest a structure. Its also detrimental to people’s faith in government (what little of it is left).
There is enough damaging info in the FISA docs to warrant the firing of RR. Trump doesn’t need any other justification or rationale. RR deceived the court and covered it up. Anyone else would have been long gone by now. So why not get on with it?