*Breaking*
Rod Rosenstein discussed secretly taping Trump
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Rosenstein Proposed Recording Trump, Using 25th Amendment To Oust Him Last Year
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last year suggested secretly recording President Donald Trump and using the 25th Amendment to forcibly remove him from office, the New York Times reported Friday.
Per the Times, these suggestions came in the chaotic aftermath of Trump’s May 2017 move to abruptly fire James Comey as FBI director. Rosenstein spoke to other Justice Department and FBI officials about his concerns, some of which were memorialized in contemporaneous memos, sources told the newspaper.
Efforts to invoke the 25th Amendment to declare the president unfit to hold office would have required recruiting members of Trump’s own cabinet to the cause.
Rosenstein told Andrew McCabe, then acing FBI director, that he believed he could persuade Attorney General Jeff Sessions and John Kelly to join this effort, the Times reported.
The Times’ sources appeared to be critical of Rosenstein’s performance in his role:
In the end, the idea went nowhere, the officials said. But they called Mr. Rosenstein’s comments an example of how erratically he was behaving while he was taking part in the interviews for a replacement F.B.I. director, considering the appointment of a special counsel and otherwise running the day-to-day operations of the more than 100,000 people at the Justice Department.