Rosenstein will probably lose his job after this recent bombshell from WaPo

[cynatnite]

Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein told the full Senate he knew that former Director James B. Comey would be fired before he wrote his controversial memo that the White House initially used as justification for President Trump firing the FBI director.

Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) said that Rosenstein told the senators that he knew on Monday, the day before Comey was fired, that Trump was going to fire him. He also told them that he was not pressured into writing his memo.

“He learned the president’s decision to fire him and then he wrote his memo with his rationale,” Durbin said.

Rosenstein knew

If Rosenstein knew the reasons Trump was firing were really about the Russia investigation, his future is in serious doubt. I can't see him having a job after the dust settles.

[MattP]

1. So Trump told told him give me a reason and he did

His integrity is gone with Mcbastard

[Amishman]

4. Yes, and this is why I don't trust the independent counsel

Rosenstein is Trump's creature, right down to writing the Comey recommendation. This is all planned. a big tell is Trump's calm response to the news of the independent counsel.

[OldHippieChick]

10. Don't kid yourself. Last nite's original response was made w/ someone else in the

room. This morning's paranoid tweets were the Tangerine Toddler on this own. He was not calm, only last nite's response was calm.

[Skittles]

11. they SAID he was calm

I say BULLSHIT

[malaise]

2. Well I would have been fired that day

because I would not have written that justification for firing him.

[BigMin28]

7. Money can buy

Almost anything. But no amount of money can buy back your integrity or principles.

[malaise]

12. True

but I think he was forced to write the letter.

Must be hard for career civil servants to be taking orders from the arrogant petulant lying asshole.

In fairness to him he never said he personally wanted Comey fired in the memo. As DiFi is saying he quoted lots of people but never said he supported his removal.

Truth is the Con is scum.

[annabanana]

3. Well, I'm glad he's been around long enough to

hire Mueller.

[cynatnite]

6. He's probably thinking he can do this one right thing before he's forced to resign. n/t

[L. Coyote]

5. I called it a week ago, conspiracy to obstruct justice, Trump, Sessions and Rosenstein.

Trump's New Impeachable Offenses: Obstruction of Justice, Conspiracy, Abuse of Power

[underthematrix]

8. Here's the problem because of

the way the media has framed the memo and the firing, people now conflate the two.'

Recall, HRC had recently spoken publicly about the reasons she lost the election during which she specifically mentioned the Comey letter and the public announcement he made about re-opening the email investigation 14 days before the election. I watched Comey must recent testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee and concluded he lied under oath about why he re-opened the email case, what he found on the Weiner laptop, the classification of the emails, and why he wrote a letter to Congress knowing it would be made public.

I believe Sessions asked Rosenstein to provide a written summary of his thoughts on Comey's handling of HRC email investigation, which was then given to the WH to attach to Comey's termination letter.

Rosenstein planned to appoint a special counsel but did it sooner because he realized the memo he drafted and shared with Sessions was used in a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice, e.g. the firing of Comey.

But Comey may also be under criminal investigation for corrupt use of public resources/personnel, e.g. re-opening investigation of HRC's email server case

[Skittles]

9. like it or not, he is officially a Trump Whore

very disturbing

[malaise]

13. I wasn't writing that letter

but the Con's firing of Comey has brought it all to a head.

[keithbvadu2]

14. Next he can write a letter that Trump's health is the greatest.

[eleny]

15. Another day another bombshell - Jeez!

[gordianot]

16. Rosenstein will not be alone in losing his job.

There will be a long list of employed casualties and disbarred attorneys as this develops.

[OnDoutside]

17. "I was only following orders" ... where have we heard that before ?

[TheDebbieDee]

18. What if 2 months, 4 months, 6 months pass and Mueller presents a report

stating there is no actual proof of communication between Trump/staffers and the Russians regarding election-cooking activities ohter than anti-Hillary propaganda... What then? What should we do?

In my heart of hearts, I KNOW that Trump and the Russians STOLE this election from Sec Clinton and I KNOW that Russian hackers meddled with voting systems in states with wifi vote aggregation and tabulation.... WTH?