CNN reports: Ex-top Trump Justice Department official Rod Rosenstein has told people in recent days he was not aware of a subpoena that targeted the data of Democratic members of Congress while he was deputy attorney general, a source familiar with Rosenstein told CNN on Saturday. The attorney general at the time of the Apple subpoena, Jeff Sessions, was recused …
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Sessions In 2018: “We Need To Take Away Children”
The New York Times reports: The five U.S. attorneys along the border with Mexico, including three appointed by President Trump, recoiled in May 2018 against an order to prosecute all undocumented immigrants even if it meant separating children from their parents. They told top Justice Department officials they were “deeply concerned” about the children’s welfare. But the attorney general at …
Read More »DOJ Secretly Blocked Probe Into Trump’s Ties To Russia
The New York Times reports: The Justice Department secretly took steps in 2017 to narrow the investigation into Russian election interference and any links to the Trump campaign, according to former law enforcement officials, keeping investigators from completing an examination of President Trump’s decades-long personal and business ties to Russia. The special counsel who finished the investigation, Robert S. Mueller …
Read More »Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein Resigns Effective May 11th
Axios reports: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has formally submitted his resignation to President Trump, effective May 11. Rosenstein was expected to leave the Justice Department after seeing the Mueller investigation through to its conclusion. His successor Jeffrey Rosen has already been nominated by President Trump and is awaiting confirmation in the Senate. After writing the letter that Trump used …
Read More »Trump Taps Jeffrey Rosen To Succeed Rod Rosenstein
CBS News reports: President Trump intends to nominate Jeffrey A. Rosen as deputy attorney general, the White House said Tuesday. Rosen, who is currently deputy transportation secretary, will replace Rod Rosenstein, who is expected to leave his post in mid-March. It’s unclear what Rosenstein’s departure means for the special counsel’s investigation. He was tasked with oversight of the probe after …
Read More »Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein To Resign Next Month
CNBC reports: Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. deputy attorney general who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate possible ties between Russia and President Donald Trump’scampaign, is expected to step down by mid March, a Justice Department official said on Monday. Rosenstein had been expected to depart shortly after new Attorney General William Barr assumed office. Barr was confirmed for the …
Read More »New Book: Rod Rosenstein Wrote James Comey Firing Memo Against His Will After Trump Ordered Him To
The Guardian reports: The deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, privately complained that he was ordered by president Donald Trump to write the notorious memo justifying the firing of the FBI director James Comey, according to Comey’s former deputy. Andrew McCabe writes in a new book that Rosenstein, who has publicly defended the memo, lamented that the president had directed him …
Read More »REPORT: Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein To Resign Soon
ABC News reports: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave his role in the coming weeks, multiple sources familiar with his plans told ABC News. Rosenstein has communicated to President Donald Trump and White House officials his plan to depart the administration around the time William Barr, Trump’s nominee for attorney general, would take office following a Senate …
Read More »DOJ Charges Chinese Hackers Of 45 US Tech Firms
CNBC reports: The Justice Department on Thursday announced charges against Chinese two nationals accused of conducting a global hacking campaign. The defendants, Zhu Hua and Zhang Shilong, are charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions and conspiracy to commit wire fraud as part of multiple years long campaigns to steal from numerous foreign governments and dozens of companies. Through a …
Read More »Trump: No Plan To Fire Rod Rosenstein [VIDEO]
Reuters reports: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he does not plan to fire Rod Rosenstein, the Justice Department official in charge of the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. “No I don’t, no,” Trump told reporters when asked if he had plans to fire the No. 2 Justice Department official. Rosenstein was flying with …
Read More »Sanders Dodges On Future Of Mueller Probe [VIDEO]
ABC News reports: White House press secretary Sarah Sanders would not offer any assurances that President Trump will allow the special counsel investigation to continue without delay if Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein exits the Justice Department, telling “Good Morning America” Tuesday that she doesn’t want to get ahead of the process. Asked by ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos …
Read More »Axios Regrets Wording Of Rod Rosenstein Story
Jonathan Swan writes at Axios: I regret the way I wrote this morning’s version of the story. By saying Rosenstein had “verbally resigned” to Kelly rather than “offered his resignation,” I conveyed a certainty that this fluid situation didn’t deserve. It’s an important nuance, and I regret the wording. In the same post, Swan notes that the DOJ had prepared …
Read More »White House: Rod Rosenstein To Keep Job For Now
The Washington Post reports: Rod Rosenstein will stay in his job for now and will meet with Trump on Thursday, the White House says. Rosenstein’s future was a matter of considerable confusion Monday morning following reports that he had offered to resign. Rosenstein has been overseeing the investigation of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who is looking into Russian …
Read More »REPORT: Rod Rosenstein Has “Verbally” Resigned
Axios reports: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has verbally resigned to Chief of Staff John Kelly in anticipation of being fired by President Trump, according to a source with direct knowledge. Per a second source with direct knowledge: “He’s expecting to be fired,” so he plans to step down. Rosenstein talked last year about invoking the 25th Amendment and wearing …
Read More »New York Times Defends Bombshell Rosenstein Report
The Hill reports: The New York Times on Saturday defended its bombshell report on Friday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed secretly recording conversations with President Trump last year and proposed the possibility of administration officials invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office. The Times’s deputy managing editor Matt Purdy wrote in a statement Saturday that …
Read More »Hannity: Rod Rosenstein Is Part Of A “Silent Coup”
“Rod Rosenstein wanted to wear a wire, secretly record a sitting president of the United States, invoke the 25th Amendment, in other words, a silent coup against his boss by him, McCabe, others, all against a duly-elected president. We are experiencing tonight a massive constitutional crisis and, frankly, this is designed to set up the president.” – Sean Hannity, speaking …
Read More »DOJ Source Claims Rod Rosenstein Was Joking
NBC News reports: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was joking when he discussed wearing a wire to secretly record President Donald Trump and does not believe Trump should be removed from office through the use of procedures outlined in the Constitution’s 25th Amendment, according to Justice Department officials who requested anonymity to discuss the conversation. In a May, 16, 2017 …
Read More »Laura Ingraham: Rod Rosenstein Must Be Fired Today
File this under totally unsurprising: Fox News host Laura Ingraham is calling on President Trump to immediately fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Ingraham, a vocal backer of Trump, issued the call after a report Friday that the No. 2 Justice Department official proposed secretly recording Trump in the Oval Office last year. Ingraham is a vocal backer of Trump …
Read More »Rosenstein Denies NYT’s “25th Amendment” Story
The Associated Press reports: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is denying a report in The New York Times that he suggested last year he secretly record President Donald Trump in the White House to expose chaos in the administration. Rosenstein says the story is “inaccurate and factually incorrect.” The report also says Rosenstein floated the idea of trying to remove …
Read More »REPORT: Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Taping Trump, Discussed Invoking The 25th Amendment
The New York Times reports: The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office for being unfit. Mr. Rosenstein made these suggestions in the spring …
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