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The investigation that Rosenstein was supervising?
https://www.newsweek.com/why-did-rod-rosenstein-resign-read-deputy-attorney-generals-letter-donald-1409301
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein submitted his resignation letter to President Donald Trump on Monday. The resignation is effective May 11.
I am grateful to you for the opportunity to serve; for the courtesy and humor you often display in our personal conversations; and for the goals you set in your inaugural address: patriotism, unity, safety, education and prosperity, Rosenstein wrote, according to The Wall Street Journal.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)nt
rzemanfl
(29,583 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)it's a smokescreen to fool the public to make us think there was corruption when it probably actually was and the players were all complicit. Throw the scent off. Why would Rosenstein even meet with him especially if he is under investigation. It's like the judge meeting with a murder suspect alone
Mike Nelson
(9,985 posts)
get$ his full government pen$ion and benefit$! No nasty firing... I wonder what parting gifts he will receive?
MurrayDelph
(5,304 posts)30 pieces of silver from the Justice Department
Nevilledog
(51,286 posts)FBaggins
(26,789 posts)I think he may just be hinting that the President doesnt show courtesy in his professional conversations
EleanorR
(2,397 posts)Trumpie was super happy after that private meeting.
FBaggins
(26,789 posts)There was a report from about six months ago of a conversation on AF1, but the reporting included that he had a senior aide with him and the WH chief of staff was also there.
EleanorR
(2,397 posts)He's a known liar.
FBaggins
(26,789 posts)Is quite different from we know they met in private - right?
maxsolomon
(33,461 posts)Party over Country. Power over all.
Mc Mike
(9,116 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)smalltalk on an airport tarmac?
Yeah, me too.
Good times.
2naSalit
(86,943 posts)kissy-assiest sounding fucking resignation letter I've ever!
Baitball Blogger
(46,777 posts)Funny how they use a plane landing analogy when Clinton and Loretta Lynch were razed for a conversation on a tarmac.
CharleyDog
(759 posts)Please Democrats, this governance by the DOJ is not acceptable. Get going. Haul this guy up for testimony. We have a lot of questions for you Rosenstein.
Just read distressing post at Digby that Mueller sent all information about counterintelligence and Russian security breaches to the FBI. Mueller DID NOT do any investigating on counterintelligence he sent IT ALL TO THE FBI.
THE FBI WAS PURGED BY TRUMP.
Trump may get away with all of this, and continue to allow Russian/Chinese/Saudi interference in our 2020 election, allow votes/voter rolls to be hacked, all the while conducting investigations into Obama/Hillary to muddy the waters of real corruption/conspiracy/treason.
Digby
This leaves me worried. After the blood-letting at the bureau that saw the entire senior leadership replaced precisely as it was engaged with counterintelligence questions involving Trumpworld and Russia, who at the bureau now is going to push such questions? The incentive structure at the FBI cannot favor senior leadership carrying the ball on this. It also cannot favor individual agents allowing themselves to get assigned to matters that would put them in the presidents cross-hairs.
VarryOn
(2,343 posts)You know a Rosenstein. The guy that tries not to piss off anyone, but no one likes.
pnwmom
(109,024 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)ancianita
(36,221 posts)stonecutter357
(12,698 posts)triron
(22,030 posts)DallasNE
(7,404 posts)Kissing the bosses ass more than a resignation letter.
Also, when did those conversations with Trump. If after Mueller was appointed then turn him in to the Bar Association to pull his license for professional misconduct.