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Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)
Mon Sep 24, 2018, 09:01 AM Sep 2018

Trump leaves door open to firing Rosenstein

Source: The Hill

President Trump is declining to comment on a new report that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein sought to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from the White House.

“I don’t want to comment on it until I get all the facts,” Trump said in an interview on “Geraldo in Cleveland” on WTAM radio in Cleveland that is set to air on Monday, according to The New York Times.

But the president left the door open to firing Rosenstein, saying a decision is "being looked at."

“I haven’t gotten all the facts, but certainly it’s being looked at in terms of what took place," Trump added. "If anything took place and I’ll make a determination sometime later, but I don’t have the facts.”

His comments came just days after The New York Times reported that Rosenstein proposed surreptitiously recording conversations with Trump and discussed the possibility of administration officials invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. The report said that the proposals from Rosenstein were brought up after Trump fired former FBI director James Come in the spring of 2017.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/408038-trump-declines-to-comment-on-if-hell-fire-rosenstein

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Trump leaves door open to firing Rosenstein (Original Post) Mrs. Overall Sep 2018 OP
Here we go AGAIN. Scarsdale Sep 2018 #1
Dirty Donny (R) is waiting for an opportune distraction Achilleaze Sep 2018 #2
"I don't want to comment on it PatSeg Sep 2018 #3
"I don't want to comment on it... BumRushDaShow Sep 2018 #4
Yeah, no kidding! joshdawg Sep 2018 #5
Trump is going to fire Rosenstein Jarqui Sep 2018 #6
Looks like today is the day FakeNoose Sep 2018 #10
The NYT story is bogus Gothmog Sep 2018 #7
"get all the facts" bucolic_frolic Sep 2018 #8
Since when has Trump needed "facts" to comment on anything? SergeStorms Sep 2018 #9
Media Corgigal Sep 2018 #11

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
1. Here we go AGAIN.
Mon Sep 24, 2018, 09:08 AM
Sep 2018

tRump seems to resent anyone who works hard all their lives, gains a good reputation, a decent job. How many careers has he ruined so far? He went after Colin Koepernick for kneeling, after Colin worked hard to be the best QB he could be. He has only supported TRAITORS like Manafort, Cohen, Stone, and others. Now he is busy praising Kavanaugh, a sexual predator just like himself. The gop committee members should all be ashamed of themselves. The evidence is glaring, yet they continue to push the nomination. The guy is a SLEAZEBAG.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
2. Dirty Donny (R) is waiting for an opportune distraction
Mon Sep 24, 2018, 09:20 AM
Sep 2018

to try and save his own casino-hustling, draft-dodging, money-grifiting, America-betraying republican ass.

SergeStorms

(19,199 posts)
9. Since when has Trump needed "facts" to comment on anything?
Mon Sep 24, 2018, 12:00 PM
Sep 2018

As is his custom, he opens his mouth and the sewage pours out, all over everyone. Trump - waiting for "facts" - is a red herring of the largest and most smelly order.

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
11. Media
Mon Sep 24, 2018, 01:06 PM
Sep 2018

Stop, just stop.

This was always the case. Nothing has changed.

Wait till facts are in. Stop the stupid speculation. That isn't news.

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