Ex-deputy attorney general says Justice Dept. 'will ignore' Trump's threats against political rivals

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein says he expects the Justice Department to "ignore the President's threats against his political opponents."

Rosenstein reacted to President Trump's comments this week pushing Attorney General William Barr to produce results in the probe into how the Obama administration initially investigated the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia in 2016.

"The Department of Justice will ignore the President's threats against his political opponents, as it has in the past, because prosecutors who take an oath to support and defend the Constitution must uphold the rule of law," Rosenstein tweeted late Friday.

The former top Justice Department official weighed in following Trump's interview with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Friday, during which the president blasted the delayed report into the Russia probe as "a disgrace" and "embarrassment" and said he'd be willing to confront Barr "to his face."

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Hope he's right. I'm not that inclined to trust Billy Barr.

[DonaldsRump]

1. Neither am I inclined to trust Rod Rosenstein

[Xipe Totec]

13. +1 nt

[The Magistrate]

2. So Says The Baby-Snatcher, Sir

[elleng]

4. 'prosecutors who take an oath to support and defend the Constitution must uphold the rule of law'

Glad he remembered. I won't say 'too little too late.'

[Marcuse]

5. Sworn prosecutors reneged on the Flynn guilty plea.

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. Says the man who put crippling limitations on Mueller's investigation

Of course Mueller went along with it, the coward that he is, because it was the least confrontational towards his Republican allies.

[stillcool]

7. what a nothing piece of nothing

who cares what a "Former", or "Ex" tweets on a Friday night? Shame that there's no other news to report.

[Mc Mike]

8. Justice ought to be charging shithead for using the powers of the presidency to go after his politic

-al opponents.

[BigmanPigman]

9. Rosenstein is a traitor/enabler. Who gives a shit about anything he says.

He is one of "them", always was and will be. He should be out of a job, ignored by everyone and thrown in the dustbin of History.

[sdfernando]

10. It may be true, may not be true

one thing is for certain. I take anything Rosenstein says with the most humongous grain of salt you have ever seen.

[NYC Liberal]

11. Wouldn't matter even if they tried. They'd need warrants and court orders

and they won’t get those.

[Earthshine2]

12. Barr and Rosenstein are scum. But, they are sentient scum thinking about their lives post Trump. nt

[Griefbird]

14. That's pretty weak tea,

when he really needed to say that any president who tries to use the justice system to punish his rivals is a danger to our country and should be removed from office immediately, as should the weasels who abet him.