Rod Rosenstein is even a weasel when repudiating his weasel moves.
Miscalculating the Comey FiringIn any event, we learn that, shortly after being confirmed as deputy AG in April 2017, Rosenstein was openly supportive of President Trump's desire to fire FBI director James Comey - to the dismayed surprise of White House aides then trying to talk the president out of doing so.
Rosenstein being Rosenstein, his memo's conclusion is slippery.
The apoplectic Democratic reaction sent Rod a-reeling, anguished by such taunts as this one by Senator Christopher Murphy of Connecticut: "You wrote a memo you knew would be used to perpetuate a lie. You own this debacle." Pathos drips from the Friday Times report: Rosenstein grousing that Trump had used him; Rosenstein remorsefully wishing that Comey was still running the FBI so the admiring Rod "Could bounce ideas off him."
ConclusionTo summarize, when he thought it would be popular, Rod Rosenstein was all in on removing FBI director Comey, eagerly volunteering to write the coup de grâce memo.
Just days after his memo excoriating Comey, Rosenstein confided in FBI officials that he wished Comey were back at the helm and that he hoped to get Comey's advice on the appointment of a special counsel.
In Chicago last month, Rod Rosenstein was the featured speaker at annual meeting of the notoriously anti-Trump American Bar Association.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/rod-rosenstein-resistance-president-trump/
Miscalculating the Comey FiringIn any event, we learn that, shortly after being confirmed as deputy AG in April 2017, Rosenstein was openly supportive of President Trump's desire to fire FBI director James Comey - to the dismayed surprise of White House aides then trying to talk the president out of doing so.
Rosenstein being Rosenstein, his memo's conclusion is slippery.
The apoplectic Democratic reaction sent Rod a-reeling, anguished by such taunts as this one by Senator Christopher Murphy of Connecticut: "You wrote a memo you knew would be used to perpetuate a lie. You own this debacle." Pathos drips from the Friday Times report: Rosenstein grousing that Trump had used him; Rosenstein remorsefully wishing that Comey was still running the FBI so the admiring Rod "Could bounce ideas off him."
ConclusionTo summarize, when he thought it would be popular, Rod Rosenstein was all in on removing FBI director Comey, eagerly volunteering to write the coup de grâce memo.
Just days after his memo excoriating Comey, Rosenstein confided in FBI officials that he wished Comey were back at the helm and that he hoped to get Comey's advice on the appointment of a special counsel.
In Chicago last month, Rod Rosenstein was the featured speaker at annual meeting of the notoriously anti-Trump American Bar Association.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/rod-rosenstein-resistance-president-trump/
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