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By James Hohmann
May 18 at 11:02 AM
The White House tried .. to downplay .. the Justice Department appointing a special counsel to investigate possible coordination between President Trumps associates and Russian officials ...
... Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein called up White House Counsel Don McGahn at 5:30 p.m. to give him a heads up that he was going to make the announcement half an hour later. A senior administration official told reporters that Trump was unbelievably calm and measured ...
Undercutting the party line a little .. the president took to Twitter .. to express frustration about the .. investigation and .. present himself as the victim of a witch hunt ...
... There would be no special counsel if Trump had not fired James Comey .. and then confessed that he did so with Russia on his mind. This is .. another reminder of .. how .. the .. presidents impulsive decision and its bungled rollout has backfired ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/05/18/daily-202-special-counsel-robert-mueller-is-bad-news-for-trump-s-embattled-white-house/591cfc03e9b69b209cf2b853/
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)Cuz he didn't have a clue what it MEANT!
da!
&thanks for post!
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)He was with 45 interviewing for the FBI Directir job. Rosenstein did this behind their backs.
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)yes indeed