New York Times is raping Rod Rosenstein right now
Yeah cuz Rosenstein is gonna testify against Obama and will be a witness in Mueller's case. Along with all the other fucking lawyers in Mueller's probe.
wrong, he won't resign because thats the only way trump can personally appoint his replacement
Dicks big if true
>WASHINGTON — When Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, headed to the White House on Monday morning, he was ready to resign and convinced — wrongly, it turned out — that President Trump was about to fire him. Top Justice Department aides scrambled to draft a statement about who would succeed him.
>By the afternoon, Mr. Rosenstein was back at his Pennsylvania Avenue office seven blocks away, still employed as the second-in-command at the Justice Department and, for the time being at least, still in charge of the Russia investigation.
What happened in between was a confusing drama in which buzzy news reports of Mr. Rosenstein’s imminent departure set in motion a dash to the White House, an offer to resign, Capitol Hill speculation about Mr. Rosenstein’s successor and, finally, a reprieve from an out-of-town president.
>“We’ll be determining what’s going on,” Mr. Trump said Monday afternoon from New York, where he was meeting with foreign leaders at the United Nations General Assembly. Asked about Mr. Rosenstein, Mr. Trump said, “We’re going to have a meeting on Thursday when I get back.”
>Even for an administration famous for chaos and rival factions, Monday’s events offered a remarkable display of the anxiety gripping the Trump administration after a New York Times report on Friday said that Mr. Rosenstein had considered secretly taping the president and had discussed using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
Digits already confirm Dems will be forced to choke on the Rod
Very Nice
fake; why would he think resigning will get him out of testifying?
It's become apparent that he's a little bitch, though
>Mr. Rosenstein called the account “inaccurate.” But it raised new questions about the fate of the deputy attorney general, who has repeatedly clashed with Mr. Trump and his supporters on Capitol Hill over the Russia inquiry. Critics called for him to be fired. Allies demanded he stay.
>This account of the events of the past several days is based on interviews with people close to Mr. Rosenstein, White House advisers, Justice Department officials, lawmakers from both parties and others familiar with the rapidly evolving situation.
>By Friday evening, concerned about testifying to Congress over the revelations that he discussed wearing a wire to the Oval Office and invoking the constitutional trigger to remove Mr. Trump from office, Mr. Rosenstein had become convinced that he should resign, according to people close to him. He offered during a late-day visit to the White House to quit, according to one person familiar with the encounter, but John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, demurred.
>Aides began planning over the weekend for his departure, going in to the Justice Department to determine how to recalibrate in the aftermath of it.
Also over the weekend, Mr. Rosenstein again told Mr. Kelly that he was considering resigning. On Sunday, Mr. Rosenstein repeated the assertion in a call with Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel. Mr. McGahn — who was dealing with the emergence of another accusation of sexual assault against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, the president’s Supreme Court nominee — asked Mr. Rosenstein to postpone their discussion until Monday.
>Some White House officials also believed that only the president could legally accept Mr. Rosenstein’s resignation, not Mr. Kelly, according to two people familiar with internal discussions.
>By about 9 a.m. Monday, Mr. Rosenstein was in his office on the fourth floor of the Justice Department when reporters started calling. Was it true that Mr. Rosenstein was planning to resign, they asked. Officials at the Justice Department took the inquiries as evidence that the White House wanted to speed along that outcome.
>Mr. Rosenstein and Ed O’Callaghan, his top deputy, raced out of the building and headed to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for what they expected to be the final word. Justice Department officials told reporters that Mr. Rosenstein expected to be fired upon arriving there.
A spokeswoman, Sarah Isgur Flores, began drafting a news release that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was on his way back from a weekend in Alabama, would distribute if Mr. Rosenstein were fired.
>At the White House, the deputy attorney general slipped into a side entrance to the West Wing and headed to the White House counsel’s office to meet with Mr. McGahn, who had by then been told by Mr. Kelly that Mr. Rosenstein was on his way and wanted to resign.
>Mr. Rosenstein was emotional, according to people familiar with his meeting with Mr. McGahn. Mr. Rosenstein wanted to leave on amicable terms, not in a manner that would trigger an angry Twitter tirade from Mr. Trump.
>But Mr. McGahn, who is set to leave the White House as soon as the Kavanaugh nomination is concluded, reminded Mr. Rosenstein of his own short-term status and directed him to talk to Mr. Kelly.
>Two people familiar with the discussions described Mr. Kelly as “conflicted” about Mr. Rosenstein’s fate, believing that a departure before the midterm elections in November would be bad for the president. At some point, Mr. Rosenstein and Mr. Trump had what the president’s spokeswoman called “an extended conversation” about the Times article. Mr. Trump said the two spoke Monday but did not say when.
>The president had already planned to clean house at the Justice Department — but not until after the elections, according to one person who had discussed Mr. Rosenstein with Mr. Trump before last week’s Times article. Monday’s drama about an imminent resignation created an unwanted headache, the person said.
>But as Mr. Rosenstein and Mr. Kelly remained behind closed doors, the possibility of Mr. Rosenstein’s departure had already sparked blaring headlines about the implications for the Russia inquiry and the management of the Justice Department.
>“Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, Is Considering Resigning,” The Times wrote. CNN and MSNBC broke into their coverage of the confirmation battle over Judge Kavanaugh to report that Mr. Rosenstein was on his way to the White House to resign.
>On Capitol Hill, lawmakers were caught off guard. Some legislators from both parties, already wrangling over the Kavanaugh nomination and girding for November’s elections, seemed to wish the matter would simply disappear.
>“I hope they can work it out,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the chamber’s No. 2 Republican. He told reporters that Mr. Rosenstein had done “a good job in a tough position” and, echoing a line senators have repeatedly employed to try to dissuade Mr. Trump from shaking up senior law enforcement, warned that confirming a replacement for Mr. Rosenstein at this point would be “problematic.”
Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, expressed more consternation, saying on Twitter that she was “concerned” by reports of Mr. Rosenstein’s fate and that he “plays a critical role” overseeing the Russia inquiry.
On his radio show on Monday, the president’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said he did not know whether Mr. Rosenstein was going to be pushed out. But he used the confusion to call for a pause in the Russia investigation, saying that if Mr. Rosenstein did resign, it “clearly becomes necessary and appropriate” that “there be a step back taken here” and a “time out on this inquiry.”
Word began leaking out of the White House that Mr. Rosenstein had joined a previously scheduled meeting of top administration officials in the West Wing — evidence that he had not resigned or been fired. At the Justice Department, Mr. Sessions returned around the time it became clear that Mr. Rosenstein was not being fired.
Speculation continued until 12:48 p.m., when Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, tweeted a statement that said that Mr. Rosenstein had requested a conversation with the president.
“Because the president is at the United Nations General Assembly and has a full schedule with leaders from around the world, they will meet on Thursday when the president returns to Washington,” Ms. Sanders said.
>Within the hour, Mr. Rosenstein left the White House and was captured by news cameras being escorted to his black SUV by Mr. Kelly. The motorcade swiftly drove back to the Justice Department, where the deputy attorney general went back to his scheduled meetings, including one on white-collar crime, and other law enforcement officials turned back to preparing for Tuesday’s meeting between Mr. Sessions and state attorneys general about tech companies.
>The release that Ms. Flores drafted did not go out.
>But the fact that Mr. Rosenstein may be on the job for at least another 72 hours is unlikely to be the end of the story. A departure by Mr. Rosenstein this week would thrust the administration into further turmoil only weeks before the midterms.
>As the top Justice Department official overseeing the investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, Mr. Rosenstein has long been the target of Mr. Trump’s bitter grievance about what he calls a politically motivated witch hunt. Mr. Rosenstein has repeatedly backed Mr. Mueller.
>Though officials have said their relationship has improved recently, the president was said to have considered terminating Mr. Rosenstein in the summer of 2017. More recently, in a Twitter rant in April, Mr. Trump accused Mr. Rosenstein of being one of the most conflicted officials at the Justice Department, asserting without evidence that he was among those seeking proof of a Trump-led conspiracy with Russia’s election interference.
>“No Collusion, so they go crazy!” Mr. Trump wrote.
>If Mr. Rosenstein leaves, Noel J. Francisco, the solicitor general, would assume oversight of the Russia investigation, according to a Justice Department official. Matthew G. Whitaker, Mr. Sessions’s chief of staff, would become acting deputy attorney general, an unusual move; typically, a top aide to the deputy attorney general would take over the post.
>Critics have said that Mr. Francisco cannot oversee the Russia investigation without a waiver from the White House because his former law firm, Jones Day, is representing the Trump campaign in the inquiry, creating a conflict of interest. Justice Department officials have not addressed whether a waiver would be needed if Mr. Rosenstein departs.
Republican lawmakers aligned with Mr. Trump have spent months wrangling over information pertaining to Justice Department investigations. Democratic opponents have said that those increasing demands were meant to corner Mr. Rosenstein and eventually push him to either compromise the integrity of the investigations or to resign.
Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, appeared to validate Mr. Rosenstein’s concerns that lawmakers were planning to scrutinize the events described in the Times article. It was based on interviews over several months with people who were told about Mr. Rosenstein’s comments at the time or who were briefed on memos that documented them, including some written by Andrew G. McCabe, then the acting director of the F.B.I.
>Mr. Goodlatte said that he planned to issue a subpoena for Mr. McCabe’s memos as soon as this week. House Republicans close to Mr. Trump had already made one attempt to obtain copies of them but were rebuffed by the Justice Department.
I am OP and I am not fag.
He doesn't want to resign. But Trump will drive him crazy until he does.
globalist holocaust coming to a theatre near you
he'll keep serving Rod balsamic vinaigrette while he chomps down on some thic ranch
They need to make him testify, especially before November.
What a punk ass. Why doesn't he resign and fuck off to israel
They're trying to save their own skin.
Remember when they were caught lying during the middle of the Cohen hearing?
>archive.is
At no point during that day was that statement true.
Late that night they update it to
>nytimes.com
They're going down for conspiracy.
BASED NYT. Truly the paper of record and one the last bastions of American journalism.
Pussy kike faggot. If he quits instead of Trump firing him they will have him killed.
Hes gonna flip. Trump doesn't even care lol.
20D chess
What position does Rod Rosenstein currently have?
>Jews freaking out in the comments
deputy jew at the DOJ
Deputy Attorney General
Drain plug
Ah yes, the Grey lady
This smug, smirking rat deserves a drawn-out, humiliating downfall.
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limp dick Sessions recused himself from the whole Russia bs investigation so Rod is in charge by default. Now Trump gets a new deputy AG and fake news russia BS is over. Muellers investigation could be over before midterms
>OMG WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES FOR PARTICIPATING IN AN ILLEGAL COUP?
This fucker is lucky that a Democrat isn't in office because if he'd tried this with Obama or Clinton he'd already have committed suicide under mysterious circumstances.
Kinda feel bad for this Jew desu.
He wants to look him in the eyes when he fires his ass. Based Trump.
>C'mon Trump. Fire him so we can pretend to be offended. C'monnnnnnn
are liberals mad at this jew yet?
Take that back right fucking now.
wew, I guess Trump is draining his own babby swamp amirite
I hope they don't let him into the WH with a body cavity search. It's known he's stated he wants to spy on POTUS.
NYT is always lying.
that jew would like it too much. he gets pegged by his attorney wife on the nightly
They keep posting the photoshopped picture in OP. I saw that on the NYT website too.
The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you
that's real wtf are you talking about? i saw Rod wearing a MAGA hat last weekend at ShopRite
id like that, thank you very much
So basically, they forced Sessions to recuse himself, in order to get Rod Rosenstien to be the one overseeing the Russia investigation (aka The Punish Trump and Co. Witchhunt), knowing he was extremely biased against Trump, while Sessions is true neutral.
Now, we have leaks that reveal his bias (most likely leaked by pro-trump elements) and now the dilemma is whether he should be allowed to resign/be fired, which would cause further chaos and divert energy from the midterms fight.
So the question is then, what matters more, Trump, his agenda, and his people, or republican seats in congress? That's a difficult problem indeed.
>the rod and the ring will strike
What if that kooky prophecy means rod rosenstein
>rod
But who is the ring
another pedo conection to hiplary clibton
Only a half-scoop of vanilla for Rod from now on
qfags are the worst.
Before you call people Qfags you should probably look through their posts to see if they talk about Q or not. If you're calling someone a qfag because you have no argument that's because you're inbred and retarded.
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shills are the worst.
>Mr. Rosenstein was emotional, according to people familiar with his meeting with Mr. McGahn. Mr. Rosenstein wanted to leave on amicable terms, not in a manner that would trigger an angry Twitter tirade from Mr. Trump.
God, what a fucking bitch.
NYT readers literally can't process the fact that Rosenstein is dirty as hell.
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shills are the worst.
Check'd. And the normies seem spooked.
>but which is ring
Pic related.
>Ringo Starr
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oh you
Why would rr be a witness in an investigation that he oversees? Only a qfag would make such a absurd proposal.
>blackmailed by Russia
lmao these fucking retards really do use it as a boogeyman for everything now, after just two years.
1.Nominate Kavanaugh
2.Fire Rosenstein
3.Profit with keeping the Congress
He's been an important witness in the investigation from the start and it's a mockery that he was ever the one overseeing it in the first place.
jonathanturley.org
That body language. Woof.
You're an idiot
Rosenstein is staying until after the Meme Terms. Q tards slitting wrists as I type this.
The Freedom Caucus said Rosenstein needs to testify before Congress within the week or resign
>The rod and the ring will strike
>(most likely leaked by pro-trump elements)
No, Rosenstein or a direct subordinate is the most likely leaker. Call me crazy, but I think Rosenstein leaked the story about him wanting to use the 25th Amendment to kick Trump out of office.
Rosenstein's number one priority is to "protect the integrity" of the Justice Department by covering up the misconduct that happened there. It's easy enough for the DoJ to cover up their own crimes, so long as a special counsel isn't appointed, but Congress has investigative authority of the government. With the FISA/Crossfire Hurricane 302s/Comey et al text messages declassification pending, the DoJ is in imminent danger of being exposed by Congressional requests being fulfilled by a Trump who can say he's not interfering with the investigation, just complying with Congress.
How does Rosenstein stop the Congressional investigations? Well, the Democrats have already said they'll switch from an investigation of FISA abuse to trying to prove the Steele Dossier is true and impeaching Trump. So Rosenstein, like Comey, needs the Democrats to win the midterms. And how can he do that? The phrase "Saturday Night Massacre" has been used more times in the last 16 months than was used in the 40+ years since Watergate. Trump fires Rosenstein, Democrats cry murder, potential blue wave and a constant stream of media support for impeachment made possible by a blue House.
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Let's pray so
Trump will accept Rosenstein’s resignation with conditions. 20 Pages and Text Messages are criminally devastating. This will allow Trump to assign any already confirmed staff. Rosenstein will be sparred but he will end the Mueller probe before the replacement. He will be sparred criminal indictment if and when he provides evidence of Hillary, Obama and co-conspirators involvement.
These are the terms. Birdies lie.
The Mueller probe won't end.
nosenstein wont quit.
trump wont fire him until the fisa declass rapes him from the inside out.
Yes user.
>pic related. Ringo Starr will strike with the fury of one thousand Phil Collins drum solos after a wicked cocaine bender
20 Pages and the Text Messages will end everything.
The text messages are coming out of the mueller probe. You know this though because your the eternal shill and probably going to prison and shilling for your life right now.
The (((resistance))) inside of the Trump White House is a collective of firmly entrenched Zionists who are working within the Republican party and federal government to undermine any ideas that would destabilize (((the order of things))) as they are. These (((resistance))) figures are high level and mostly protected assets who are not only members of the executive team, but liaisons throughout all levels of governments, as the op-ed states.
Even if the (((writer))) of the op-ed were named and jailed, nothing could dismantle the collective interest of this (((resistance))), as it continues to shape the Trump White House exactly how (((they))) envision any Republican-led White House to run.
This is why you do not and never will see any extreme motions to disrupt the establishment. This is why the media continues its campaign to slander and sabotage unfettered, in cohesion with the alphabet agencies. This is why federal judges strike down anything that will give Trump momentum for his more extreme agendas. MAGA Republicans do not run Washington, (((Republicans))) do, and you will be sorry to know that this is how things will continue.
I want you all to take heed to one very important and cryptic line in the op-ed; "We will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it's over."
(((They))) have already decided, if his problems with discipline cause too much collateral damage, he will be JFK'd.
The (((resistance))) is real, and this is (((their))) flag.
Seems like wishful thinking and bald speculation. Rosenstein doesn't gain anything by ending the Mueller probe and actually loses quite a bit. Wray at the FBI is a close ally of his in protecting the ignorance of the American people. Neither can easily be fired by Trump without risking a Never Trumper revolt in the House voting for impeachment, especially given that Trump dumbly appointed both.
As long as the Mueller probe continues, Trump can not control the Justice Department. As long as Trump can not control the Justice Department, he can only expose corruption through the Inspector General (toothless) and granting Congressional document requests.
Remember that Rosenstein is potentially a party to the corruption. He's not going to give up his leverage on a no-tweetstorm promise from Trump. He'd have to be offered immunity or a pardon to even consider it.
What the fuck are you even aware of how boomer you sound? There is no post history on pol.
LURK.MORE. FAGGOT.
Isn't the inspector general looking at the documents that trump wanted to declassify right now? Any chance Rosenresign knows he's fucked and just looking for a way out?
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It's very likely that Rosenstein was one of the primary lobbyists to have the IG review the documents before release. Trump was just going to release them. The IG review is a stalling tactic, most likely to try and delay them until after the midterms. Trump's tweet indicated that he would release them without IG review if the IG won't get them out before the election.
A few months ago they were touting him as their inside man to bring down Trump and now they're panicking because he's bailing, which means the Mueller investigation goes to the next guy in line who worked with Scalia, and will promptly shut it all down because it's bullshit.
It's over lads, no more Rosengoysteinnberg and no more Mueller sideshow. Must be a full on fire at the NYT right now now that they know no possible way of impeaching Trump
wtf? Trump doesn't get to refuse his resignation. It's the civil service. If Roddy wants to quit, he writes "I quit" on a piece of paper and leaves his credentials on the desk. Jesus, man. Grow a pair. A million Wall Street law firms will be lining up to hire him.
Jews having to fry their own. This never happened before Trump. Savior of the western world.
This is all a stage managed psyop. The jews are re-running the Dreyfus Affair in the USA.
>limp dick Sessions recused himself from the whole Russia bs investigation so Rod is in charge by default. Now Trump gets a new deputy AG and fake news russia BS is over.
Wrong!
Once Rosenstein is out, Sessions will immediately wake up and unrecuse himself, so he can continue to stymie and obstruct justice.
LOL
> guy who will "bring down trump"
> months later, begs to be fired
> trump refuses registration. guy cries.
> instead, goes to UN and calls them faggots
please clap
lefty wojak-posters on /v/ think the bowsette spam was orchestrated by russian hackers
1. Nominate kavanagh
2. win midterms
3. fire rosenstein
rosenstein will resign on thursday, a day before the vote and the narrative will be he was pressured into doing so by trump in order to distract from the ford dud
Yeah, but there was a rumor he was already under investigation for the fisa warrant. If there was something else in the unclassified docs that raised eyebrows, he could realize his time is running out on being able to stonewall so he's stepping down. Just speculation because of the timing here.