Why was Rosenstein having personal conversations with the President who was under investigation?

[pnwmom]

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]

1. why? To save his job, of course

nt

[rzemanfl]

2. WTAF? Something smells about this. n/t

[SummerSnow]

9. It smells of corruption. Barr said he was going to investigate the investigation. This is a lie...

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]

3. Looks like Rod...

… get$ his full government pen$ion and benefit$! No nasty firing... I wonder what parting gifts he will receive?

[MurrayDelph]

19. Probably

30 pieces of silver from the Justice Department

[Nevilledog]

20. *snort*

[FBaggins]

4. "Personal" and "private" aren't the same thing

I think he may just be hinting that the President doesnt show courtesy in his professional conversations

[EleanorR]

12. We know they had a lovely private convo on Air Force One

Trumpie was super happy after that private meeting.

[FBaggins]

14. I don't think so.

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]

15. Supposedly John Kelly was there, but who knows if he stayed when they met

He's a known liar.

[FBaggins]

17. "Who knows"

Is quite different from “we know they met in private” - right?

[maxsolomon]

5. He is a Republican.

Party over Country. Power over all.

[Mc Mike]

6. The repugs got really mad about Lynch talking to former prez Clinton, one time.

[SummerSnow]

11. Yep, and the rethugs got so mad. They were talking about investigating this

[EffieBlack]

7. Remember when the GOP and MSM lost their shit after Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton made

smalltalk on an airport tarmac?

Yeah, me too.

Good times.

[2naSalit]

8. That has to be the most

kissy-assiest sounding fucking resignation letter I've ever!

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Exactly.

Funny how they use a plane landing analogy when Clinton and Loretta Lynch were razed for a conversation on a tarmac.

[CharleyDog]

13. Get this liar/manipulator to House Judiciary/Oversight Hearings RIGHT NOW

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

In other words, the Mueller investigation was a criminal probe only. It had embedded FBI personnel sending back to the FBI material germane to the FBI’s counterintelligence mission. But Mueller does not appear to have taken on the counterintelligence investigative function himself.

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 president’s cross-hairs.

[VarryOn]

16. If you work in the biz world...

You know a Rosenstein. The guy that tries not to piss off anyone, but no one likes.

[pnwmom]

18. Yeah, everyone knows an Eddie Haskell. :)

[UniteFightBack]

21. Because rump corrupts...first a little and then a lot. nt

[UTUSN]

22. K&R

[yaesu]

23. A very sad state of affairs. nt

[Pepsidog]

24. Pass the vomit bag. He is a scum ball cry baby traitor.

[ancianita]

25. I'm so angry. Now he's a citizen, he'll have to speak to the House Judiciary Committee.

[stonecutter357]

26. Rosenstein/ russian cricist actors/rwnj's !

[triron]

27. Rosenstein makes me want to vomit. He's a good Nazi.

[DallasNE]

28. Reads Like A CYA Letter

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.