'I can land the plane': How Rosenstein tried to mollify Trump, protect Mueller and save his job

[Dennis Donovan]

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Source: WaPo

By Matt Zapotosky ,
Josh Dawsey and
Devlin Barrett April 26 at 3:20 PM
Rod J. Rosenstein, again, was in danger of losing his job. The New York Times had just reported that — in the heated days after James B. Comey was fired as FBI director — the deputy attorney general had suggested wearing a wire to surreptitiously record President Trump. Now Trump, traveling in New York, was on the phone, eager for an explanation.

Rosenstein — who, by one account, had gotten teary-eyed just before the call in a meeting with Trump’s chief of staff — sought to defuse the volatile situation and assure the president he was on his team, according to people familiar with matter. He criticized the Times report, published in late September, and blamed it on former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, whose recollections formed its basis. Then he talked about special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and told the president he would make sure Trump was treated fairly, people familiar with the conversation said.

“I give the investigation credibility,” Rosenstein said, in the words of one administration official offering their own characterization of the call. “I can land the plane.”

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Weasel, Complete weasel...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I don't get why so many of these people go to such lengths to save their jobs.

None of them would end up standing in line at a soup kitchen if they lost their jobs; they're well-qualified, educated, experienced people who could get good jobs in law or lobbying firms in a heartbeat. Why do they debase themselves for Trump?

[Perseus]

17. That is a question a psychiatrist needs to answer

Anyway you look at it, it just doesn't make sense, unless of course, they have been compromised and they are not trying to save their jobs, but their skins.

[iluvtennis]

2. Wow, the unethical behavior never ends.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Nicole Wallace is covering it now with

good guests. Rosenstein sold out...he is now an ass kissing member of the cult. Massive cover-up between him, Barr and tRump. We must investigate this on live TV in hearings ASAP!

Nicole's boyfriend wrote the piece in the NY Times (Mike Schmidt)...I remember where I was when I heard about this article since I almost dropped a dish.

I am so glad I wrote a "I am so disappointed in you" letter to Rosenstein last week as an alumnus from my high school.

[Talitha]

11. Swalwell's input on Nicole's show was fabulous.

[BigmanPigman]

12. Yes, I hope when he gets back to work next week

that he and the committees issue lots of Contempt of Congress citations and haul them in and fine them "bigly".

[a kennedy]

4. How is this allowed to happen?? THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION

AND THE RULE OF LAW, not the gawd damn president. Isn’t there ANYTHING that hold them accountable????

[Roy Rolling]

5. Narrow Focus

He just doesn't wanna lose his job. Getting fired is traumatic, he looks like the kind of guy that takes such a thing hard. When comparing telling his wife he got fired, or just continue collecting a paycheck without committing a crime, he took the Casper Milquetoast route.

That's why he didn't leave when he should, he sounds insecure. And sometimes taking money from an asshole boss is the best revenge. In the end, he kept his job, kept his money, but made the public aware he was willing to go 25th Amendment on Trump.

The only loser in all that is DJT.

[rzemanfl]

10. The problems is the assholes he's taking money from are us.

Fuck him.

[Roy Rolling]

15. Yes

He looked after himself, that's the reason he did it. But he's in a job to look after others. He may not have commited a crime, but he was willing to get very comfortable with that boundary to suck up to Trump for his job.

Total weasel.

[deurbano]

6. "Rosenstein praises 'Lincolnesque' Trump" [I keep posting this to remind us to assume Republicans

are all partisan hacks, who will choose party over country... especially if they were involved in the Whitewater travesty, as Comey, Kavanaugh and Rosenstein were. When I first posted about this speech in June, 2018, I was asked if I felt "comfortable aligning wJim Jordan and Trey Gowdy, et al in smearing and and attempting to discredit Rosenstein..." (!) We trust them at our peril, and we have to do MUCH better at working the refs!! We should have shrieked our heads off-- as the Deplorables continuously do-- when Comey held the unprecedented press conference to trash Clinton while clearing her, but we think if we just respect the process, truth will prevail in the end. That's not possible when they shamelessly rig the process and ignore laws and all precedent, with no hesitation or remorse.]

http://www.jewishaz.com/us_worldnews/rosenstein-praises-lincolnesque-trump/article_bd428478-53b6-11e8-88db-fba784f207f5.html Wednesday, May 9, 2018

<<Embattled Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told a Washington audience Sunday that President Donald Trump’s words after last year’s deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville represented a message of unity that needed to be heard during a divisive period in American history.

Following the murder of a counterprotester by a white nationalist, Trump said, “You had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. … You also had some very fine people on both sides.”

“President Trump recognized last August that no matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws, we all salute the same great flag and we are all made by the same almighty God,” Rosenstein said at the Anti-Defamation League’s annual leadership summit...

Rosenstein said Trump’s call for more tolerance after the Charlottesville rally resembled President Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 inaugural address. In that speech, the 16th president urged unity despite bitter divisions between the North and the South over slavery.

“Lincoln insisted his opponents were not enemies, because we were all Americans,” Rosenstein said. “He concluded his inaugural address by appealing to the better angels of our nature. President Trump echoed that statement with his remarks last summer of ‘we must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans.’”...


“When victims are attacked because of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, there are laws that empower [the Justice Department] to respond,” he said. “Enforcing those laws is important to President Trump and Attorney General Sessions.”>>

[rurallib]

8. Great information. If you haven't gone so already, this ought to have a thread of its own

Thanks for the info.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. You landed it alright. Nice enabling.

[SunSeeker]

9. Yup. Once a weasel, always a weasel. nt

[LenaBaby61]

14. "Yup. Once a weasel, always a weasel."

WHOSE surprised by by that scary cat Weaselstein

Almost making LOVE with that nasty HOG tRump to keep his job

[czarjak]

13. Thanks for the unsolicited testimonial...

You're an asshole. Now make amends. (I can dream)

[Marcuse]

16. Mueller landed the plane.

Barr and Rosenstein decided which baggage went on the conveyor belt to the waiting public and which was held back or lost.

[Yonnie3]

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