In Rod We Trust: Maybe We Were Wrong About Rosenstein

[Mme. Defarge]

Excerpt:

But if they’d actually read the memo, which you can do here, they’d see clearly that Rod Rosenstein never recommended that Donald Trump fire James Comey.

This was obvious in his memo, but it also came out in a congressional session last week: Rosenstein himself effectively told Congress that Donald Trump and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III had lied to him. They’d tried to set him up, it seems, as cover to do something they feared would otherwise be illegal: committing obstruction of justice by firing the guy who’s investigating them. Trump couldn’t fire Comey. Too obvious. Sessions couldn’t do it, either; he’d recused himself. But Rosenstein?

And then Donald Trump, yet again, proved himself stupider than nearly anyone else in Washington, D.C. Rosenstein saw this coming weeks ago, and he turned the tables and set Trump up. And Sessions. Thanks to Rosenstein, Mr. Trump’s fall is probably not too far off. And it’s certainly going happen a lot more quickly than if Trump hadn’t fired Comey to begin with.

So if you thought Rosenstein was a bad guy, or if the Trump administration counted vertebrates as having a pre-existing condition, you’re wrong. In a few weeks, Rod Rosenstein will be considered a hero. Here’s why in two parts.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/05/in-rod-we-trust-maybe-we-were-wrong-about-rosenste.html

[Phoenix61]

1. I especially like the part about him notifying

the WH 30 minutes before he announced he had hired a special prosecutor. Pretty slick.

[elleng]

2. Thanks. Caught in White House Chaos, Justice Dept. Official Seeks Neutral Ground.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/21/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-justice-comey.html?