Posted on 10/09/2018 10:32:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Two senior FBI officials told the bureau’s top lawyer they believed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was “serious” when he discussed secretly recording President Trump and invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office last year, according to sources close to a congressional investigation – an account that conflicts with claims from Rosenstein and others that the comments either were inaccurately reported or made in jest.
Former FBI General Counsel James A. Baker told congressional investigators during a closed-door deposition last week that then-FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe and FBI lawyer Lisa Page came to Baker "contemporaneously" after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. Baker said Page and McCabe relayed details of the meeting where Rosenstein made the comments.
Though he wasn't personally in that meeting, Baker told congressional investigators he took McCabe and Page's account “seriously,” the sources said. Further, Baker told congressional investigators he suspected “Rosenstein was coordinating with two people in the administration to invoke the 25th Amendment,” a source said.
Baker, whose testimony was described as deliberate and sober, added he had not done a legal analysis and was unsure whether it was “unethical or illegal,” the source added.
The testimony would appear at odds with other accounts of those explosive discussions.
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I wonder what the substance of the meeting was yesterday between DJT and Rosenstein.
Rosenstein would know full well that invoking the 25th would be much more difficult than ordinary impeachment. I doubt ‘journalists’ or FIBbers would actually know how the 25th works, and so could imagine it being used in this case.
Why bring this up? Rosenstein is in deep legal trouble and Trump knows it....so he can manipulate Rosenstein completely for the next six years. The Mueller situation is effectively wrapped up and will never go anywhere.
It would seem Trump has Rosie by the shorthairs, and is toying with him.
https://www.justice.gov/jmd/organization-mission-and-functions-manual-attorney-general#dag
...The major functions of the DAG are to:
...Represent DOJ at White House coordination meetings of the National Security Council and Homeland Security Council, and maintain staff to address related Justice policy...
...Act as initial contact with the White House on pending criminal matters.
Recommend to the White House, after consultation with the Office of the Pardon Attorney, whether the President should grant specific petitions of pardon or commutation of sentence...
I think Baker is the liar. I think DJT knows it. That’s why Rosenstein is still working. JMHO
Firing squad.
Or, Trump can keep him out of jail for treason, especially if he agrees to spill the beans on the deep state’s coup!
Exactly. The players believe RR is turned, flipped by Trump, working against them.
What’s probable is they are, each and all, dirty and guilty of everything. It’s just that Comey and McCabe have not been flipped.
Yet.
DAG Rosentein will one day be proved to be MAGA MAN DAG and his service to the country and POTUS once fully revealed will be on par with Admiral Rogers contribution.
“It would seem Trump has Rosie by the shorthairs, and is toying with him.”
That is how I see it.
Trump can lead him by the ring in his nose. Trump probably has sworn 302s from multiple people in that room that swear to it and he’s just letting Rod dangle.
Yeah, except for his signing off on that FISA warrant thingie, dragging his feet in the Nunes investigation, and failing to go after the deep state coup plotters, he's a real honest to God patriot!
:: major eyeroll ::
Trust Rosenweasel?
The guy who hired Mueller, extended the Mueller investigation, signed off on a bogus FISA warrant application, stonewalled Congress, buried the first Uranium One investigation, whitewashed the Clinton Travelgate investigation, married a Clinton suck-up and perhaps spied on Trump for the purposes of invoking the 25th amendment?
That Rosenweasel?
LOL.
I smell a rat.
Rat Rosenstein
If Trump had him by the shorthairs, and now he’s on the team, why are the fisa etc. docs still not declassified?
That would be a decent indicator, don’t you think?
I think he’s fired Nov. 9th. Along with Magoo.
Could be. As to the documents, maybe President Trump is waiting for the right time to release them. Maybe two weeks before the election?
Just wait until after the midterms to lower the boom.
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