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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Mon Sep 24, 2018, 07:52 PM Sep 2018

Rod Rosenstein's Job Is Safe, for Now: Inside His Dramatic Day

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 from the White House, 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.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rod-rosensteins-job-is-safe-for-now-inside-his-dramatic-day/ar-AAAAdJ6?li=BBnbcA1

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Rod Rosenstein's Job Is Safe, for Now: Inside His Dramatic Day (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2018 OP
I hope he is using these few days before he meets with The King to put up protections... Frustratedlady Sep 2018 #1
The chaos president, just loving this GusBob Sep 2018 #2
The part of the puzzle not fitting is Sessions was out of town and Rosenstein was already Fred Sanders Sep 2018 #3
They want him to quit. It's easier to replace him if he quits, I heard on Hardball today. Honeycombe8 Sep 2018 #4

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
1. I hope he is using these few days before he meets with The King to put up protections...
Mon Sep 24, 2018, 07:55 PM
Sep 2018

for Mueller, provide funding for as far as he can into the future and block any games Trump has in mind.

If it's possible, do it.

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
2. The chaos president, just loving this
Mon Sep 24, 2018, 07:55 PM
Sep 2018

He has the DOJ by the balls now, Sessions is neutered and anyone can be fired at anytime on his whim

Power is fear

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. The part of the puzzle not fitting is Sessions was out of town and Rosenstein was already
Mon Sep 24, 2018, 08:10 PM
Sep 2018

scheduled to go to the White House with other of his staff, in Sessions place, for the scheduled meeting.

"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".

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
4. They want him to quit. It's easier to replace him if he quits, I heard on Hardball today.
Mon Sep 24, 2018, 08:12 PM
Sep 2018

It's much more difficult for the W.H., if they fire Rosenstein. So they would prefer him quitting. Guest on Hardball said that Rosenstein was prepared to resign before he could be fired, but someone advised him not to. That it's better to be fired.

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