Posted on 09/23/2018 10:28:40 AM PDT by maggief
Two sources told The Daily Beast that FBI lawyer Lisa Page was present for Rod Rosenstein's comments on secret recordings and did not believe he was joking or being sarcastic.
A debate with major implications has broken out over whether Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was being sarcastic when, in the spring of 2017, he reportedly talked about covertly recording President Donald Trump.
A former career Justice Department official who was in the room when the topic arose told The Daily Beast he believes the deputy attorney general was being sarcastic. But another person in the room at the time has indicated she took it seriously.
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Rosenstein attended meetings on May 16, 2017, where he reportedly discussed the 25th amendment and taping the president, the Times reported. Page attended one of the meetings and wrote a memo about it, multiple outlets have reported. Page, who left the FBI after being embroiled in a scandal involving sending text messages critical of Trump, did not think Rosenstein’s comments about covertly taping the president were in jest, the two sources told The Daily Beast.
Page’s assessment differs from the assessments of unnamed Justice Department officials cited in reports in The Washington Post and NBC News, as well as the assessment of the meeting attendee who spoke to The Daily Beast. Those outlets reported that people who heard Rosenstein’s comments say he was joking. The New York Times’ initial story also cited an unnamed source, referred to them by the Justice Department and with firsthand knowledge, who said Rosenstein was being sarcastic when he made the remark about recording the president.
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The plot thickens..
How bad must the corruption in DC be that it has staged this “bureaucratic coup” in order to avoid exposure?
It’s scary to think about.
Ping!
Based upon her various answers to the Congressional investigating committees and the IG, LISA PAGE MAY BE THE ONLY HONEST MEMBER OF THAT CORRUPT DOJ/FBI GANG.
Has anyone actually said what they suspected(?) Trump was guilty of?
Selling Uranium to the Russians? ....setting up an illegal Server for his yoga inquiries? Wiring tapping a Presidential candidate?
Jay walking?
Simple answer is these people should be no where near the top of the FBI or DOJ. Their first and last impulse is, how can we destroy the president.
WAIT A SECOND! HOLD THE PHONE!.......WHY would Lisa Page say ANYTHING to ANYBODY while she is under indictment?.....more crap from the MSM to take control of the narrative......This article tells me that the DS feels that flushing RR is in their best interests....and they are trying very hard to make that happen
How bad must the corruption in DC be that it has staged this “bureaucratic coup” in order to avoid exposure?
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They installed an ineligible usurper in the White House in violation of the Constitution.
Who then proceeded to weaponize our government against US.
It doesn’t get any worse.
Honest but still wildly biased.
Gitmo should be full by now.
5.56mm
Why does no one ever mention his talk about invoking the 25th Amendment?
Was he supposed to be joking about that too, and extending the joke to reference at least two people in the Trump cabinet?
This is all meant to discredit Rosenstein for any actions the Justice Department takes on these people. The NYT and WaPo are two of the outlets these people leaked at will to...Mark Levin is correct that this is not to benefit Trump, as if it ever is...
She may be the smartest too, if she's the first cut a deal to cooperate.
Yep....that was the camel’s nose and head let into the tent.
Electing the usurper the second time was allowing the camel’s chest in.
What has happened with Trump, under these so-called gov’t IA’s, is the camel’s @ss going right out of the tent’s front door.
Ha! Lisa’s not going down with the ship, it appears.
McCabe memorialized the conversation(s) in memo(s). These memos were kept from the IG(!). And now Rosenstein is preventing the release of the memos to Congress.
If it looks like a corrupt duck, walks like a corrupt duck, ...
The fear is in the hearts of the coup conspirators, because they know what’s coming and what their actions have wrought upon themselves.
“WHY would Lisa Page say ANYTHING to ANYBODY while she is under indictment?”
Do you have a source for that? Other than the kids in mom’s basement, that is?
I’m thinking the same thing.
And I am shocked to see that the female of the group has at least some honor.
Cautious optimism saying, Thank You, Lisa.
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