Rod Rosenstein whining and complaining on his way out the door.
Run along, dude. You wrote the memo providing Trump air cover for firing Mueller.
The only reason you weren’t a target in the obstruction probe is because you were overseeing it. https://t.co/yCLEeMXWgT
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 26, 2019
Welcome to the club, Rod — here’s your official membership card for the ‘Leopards Eating Peoples’ Faces’ Party. Charles P. Pierce, at Esquire:
Right at the bell on Friday, the Washington Post provided the definitive answer to the question that had been plaguing the nation. To wit:
Rod Rosenstein: Inanimate Lump of Play-Doh or Careerist Poltroon?
(Pro Tip: Both.)
It is impossible to come out of a newspaper story worse than Rosenstein does here. He is now marked as some weird hybrid of L. Patrick Gray and Uriah Heep, with a dollop of Ottoman eunuch in there somewhere. Gaze in awe…
The Washington Post, under a ‘National Security’ subhed: “‘I can land the plane’: How Rosenstein tried to mollify Trump, protect Mueller and save his job”:
Rod J. Rosenstein, again, was in danger of losing his job. The New York Times had just reported that — in the heated days after James B. Comey was fired as FBI director — the deputy attorney general had suggested wearing a wire to surreptitiously record President Trump. Now Trump, traveling in New York, was on the phone, eager for an explanation.
Rosenstein — who, by one account, had gotten teary-eyed just before the call in a meeting with Trump’s chief of staff — sought to defuse the volatile situation and assure the president he was on his team, according to people familiar with matter. He criticized the Times report, published in late September, and blamed it on former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, whose recollections formed its basis. Then he talked about special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and told the president he would make sure Trump was treated fairly, people familiar with the conversation said.
“I give the investigation credibility,” Rosenstein said, according to an administration official with knowledge of what was said during the call. “I can land the plane.”…
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