[Axios] 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.
Background: Rosenstein talked last year about invoking the 25th Amendment and wearing a wire during Trump meetings, the N.Y. Times' Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt reported last week. He denied both allegations.
Update at 11:45 a.m. EDT, courtesy of Fred: MSN also has the story, which they will be updating as it develops, so check here.
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Teamwork works! Thank you for catching this for us, Beavis. I heard something about this on the radio, and was happy to see you’d already submitted an article before I even started to look for one. :-)
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The Justice Department's rules of succession dictate that Solicitor General Noel Francisco would be next in line to take over for Rosenstein.
Francisco's track record as a lawyer mirrors Trump's rhetoric against intelligence authorities, with cases that include rebukes of the FBI and a defense of executive authority.
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My regard for Rosenstein just went up substantially; his resignation, even if forced, is not a firing, and will be less usable as an 'obstruction of justice' tool against Trump.
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Retiring to avoid being required to testify before Congressional Committee(s)? (Assuming the Republicans hold a Majority in either house, that is...)
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The Justice Department's rules of succession dictate that Solicitor General Noel Francisco would be next in line to take over for Rosenstein.
Rules of succession???? What is this, a royal family? Why can't DoJ solicit resumes from both outside and inside the government and select the best candidate?
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Given the unreliability of the leaks and smears that pass for news nowadays, I'll believe it after it happens.
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Maybe not. Update: The Wall Street Journal’s take sounds more like a firing, given that discussions were taking place “all weekend” at the White House:
Mr. Rosenstein has not submitted his resignation, the person said.
The situation remained fluid, however, as another person familiar with the matter said Mr. Rosenstein is expected to resign, and that discussions have been underway about his departure all weekend. …
Mr. Rosenstein had disputed those assertions on Friday. In a statement released that day, he said, “I never pursued or authorized recording the President and any suggestion that I have ever advocated for the removal of the President is absolutely false.”
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Maybe he plans to take the old fashioned way out, the 'honorable' way. Will he be found dead at his desk tomorrow? Or in Fort Marcy Park with two bullet wounds to the back of his head? He's involved in the Clinton emails...he might need to be worried.
[BizPacReview] A Democratic operative and former Clinton White House official who is now an advisor to Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, predicted a "strategy" to defeat the US Supreme Court nominee months ago. Who could have seen that coming?
Ricki Seidman spoke about a plot to take down Kavanaugh in a conference call with the American Constitution Society in July, suggesting a "strategy will emerge" that would destroy the nomination of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick.
"I do think that over the coming days and weeks there will be a strategy that will emerge, and I think it’s possible that strategy might ultimately defeat the nominee," Seidman said in audio that was recorded by the Republican National Committee’s War Room. "And whether or not it ultimately defeats the nominee it will, I think, help people understand why it’s so important that they vote."
The timing of the call in the audio coincides with Ford’s delivery of a letter to Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein in July alleging the assault by Kavanaugh
Seidman, who advised Anita Hill to testify against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991, has also had a long history working with Democrats.
According to her bio at TSD Communications where she is a senior principal, Seidman "took a leave of absence in 2008 to work for President Obama’s general election campaign, serving as Vice President Joe Biden’s communications director. In the spring and summer of 2009, she assisted the White House in the successful confirmation effort for President Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor."
During the Clinton Administration, she served as White House Deputy Communications Director, Counselor to the Chief of Staff, and Director of Scheduling and Advance for the President as well as later serving as Deputy Associate Attorney General in the Department of Justice.
Seidman "cut her teeth running attack ads against Robert Bork, a nomination that was eventually derailed. She then moved to Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy’s office, where she was instrumental in convincing Anita Hill to go public with her claim that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her," The Daily Caller reported.
Democrats may deny there is a plot to destroy Kavanaugh’s nomination ‐ and his reputation in the process ‐ but the audio clip reveals the real strategies as Seidman is now advising Ford in the political smear campaign.
"This feels more like a Democratic super PAC than a legal effort to get at the truth," a senior Republican official told Politico.
"If you’re concerned about an appearance of partisanship, hiring a Democratic operative with a history of smearing conservative judges doesn’t exactly mitigate that," RNC press secretary, Cassie Smedile, said.
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Didn't the FBI check out this Kavenaugh guy? Any background done before his elevation to D.C. Circuit Court?
Don't the lefties realize they're playing into Trump's hand - making the FBI look incompetent?
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FBI cant investigate something that didnt happen.
Press is carrying lies like its the truth.
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That's what happens when you publish the list up front. Gave them two years to dig up / fabricate the dirt.
Dianne Feinstein has just demanded that Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination process be put on hold in order to investigate the allegations published in the New Yorker by Ronan Farrow.
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Okay, it is time...
If sane Republicans can be banned from speaking or existing... (see Google and Twitter and Facebook and Universities and Hollyweed)
... what about ancient Democrat "feminists" suffering from Senile Dementia?
Feinstein @ 85, Pelosi @78, Maxine Waters @ 80, Hillary the sorest loser in history Klinton @71
Oh and bitches... let younger people have a say in their lives.. go away...
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With the increase in threats of violence against Kavanaugh AND his family, and the constant drumbeat of 'righteousness' in the media, I fear it is only a matter of time before some wacko decides to try to assassinate (in their mind 'execute') Kavanaugh. If he is actually confirmed he will have to live with a target on his back for life.
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This one was drunk as a skunk, cant corroborate the place and time, nor have any of the "witnesses" backed up her story - in fact they all deny it. No record at the time, never said anything to anyone over decades...
This is bullshit, yet the press runs with it.
The problem isnt so much the Dems and their fabrications, its the press carrying water for them. Our so-called "free" press has become a propaganda machine, and needs to be torn down and smashed to bits, and rebuilt without the lliberal/progressive controllers. And those in charge now must pay a price.
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[Breitbart] Failed 2016 presidential candidate and former Florida governor Jeb Bush says Americans who are urging for immigration controls are "threatened" by their perception that the United States is "changing" and becoming "less white."
In a podcast interview with National Review Editor Nordlinger, Bush said immigration controls were "foolhardy" and that illegal alien crime gets too much attention compared to crimes committed by American citizens.
Bush said:
Our party is advocating restricting legal immigration as well. And I think that’s foolhardy beyond belief. There’s a way to reform the legal immigration system that would be a catalyst for sustained economic growth and we need it because our demography is going the wrong way. [Emphasis added]
There are quite a few people that have a larger megaphone if you will that seem either threatened by what they perceive to be a changing country that is less white perhaps ... basically, there’s a concern that we’ve lost our way and immigrants are kind of easy to single out with vitriol. [Emphasis added]
There’s examples of cable news shows that talk about an illegal immigrant or a legal immigrant that commits an atrocious crime, murder, family loses their loved one and that seems to get a lot more attention than crime throughout America. [Emphasis added]
Since the late 1960’s, immigration to the U.S. has surged from some of the most impoverished and dangerous regions of the world, including Mexico, Central America, and the Middle East.
Legal immigration to the U.S. from Islamic nations, for example, including Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Somalia has skyrocketed since 2010. Immigration from Afghanistan to the U.S. has increased 84 percent in the last seven years.
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"You are all sinners! You have racist and sexist thought all the time! Repent! Kneel and ask for forgiveness! And elect me - my family led you for years (never mind where to)!"
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"Less White" Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, Los Angeles, Houston, St. Louis, London......not at all threatening, unless you must travel or live there.
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We're all Nazis. Jeb thinks it's 1936, see?
there’s a concern that we’ve lost our way andJewishimmigrants are kind of easy to single out with vitriol.
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I wonder how Vibrant! a neighborhood ¡Yeb! lives in?
#9
Dig those purple socks on the guy who wants to Make America Mexico Again.
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Take away this asshole's 401K and give it to me and I'll be able to take much better care of all my immigrant friends. Until then, he's just another Bourgeoise Pig.
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Maybe its not crime Jeb, maybe a good part of it is jobs. Illegals take jobs from African Americans which has been detrimental to the black community who are then pushed to welfare. This causes crime to go up and increases the tax burdon. A child could figure that out Jeb.
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He didn't say anything to any of the bullshit that Obama did to tear apart the Louisiana oilfield. I'll go with "Hates Blacks" for 500, Mr. Trebek...
[PRESSTV] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s recent criticism of the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... is not surprising because he represents the view that the world body must serve US foreign policy, says an analyst in Virginia.
Keith Preston, editor of the Attackthesystem.org made the remarks on Sunday, after Trump criticized the UN ahead of his address to the annual gathering of world leaders at the General Assembly next week.
In a video message on his Twitter page, Trump said Saturday that the UN has "tremendous potential" but has "not lived up to that potential."
Trump is set to address the General Assembly on Tuesday. He will also hold meetings with heads of South Korea, Egypt, La Belle France, Japan and the United Kingdom.
Trump has frequently criticized the UN, claiming that the United States does not get the respect it deserves despite its contributions to the world body ‐ currently at 22 percent of the annual budget.
"The first thing that as to be understood about the United Nations is that the UN was created in the late 1940s after the conclusion of the World War II and essentially it was a way for the victorious allied forces at WWII to run the world in their own interest," Preston told Press TV on Sunday.
"That has always been the principle purpose of the United Nations," he added.
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I've long suspected that Trump puts USA interests above universal progress and social justice.
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He is President of the United States, not president of the world. And a lot of Americans want it that way.
As far as universal progress and social justice, America leads the world by example. The world would be a bigger shi*hole than it is now without American leadership.
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I'd be happy if the UN encouraged nations to work in their own interests. Capitalism brings folks out of poverty, Socialism drives folks into poverty. Lets start by encouraging the former and discouraging the latter.
h/t Gates of Vienna
[TrevorLoudon] Project Veritas just released its latest undercover video, "Unmasking the Deep State." This first video focuses on a State Department employee who is both a poster child for the Deep State and a perfect example of why the federal bureaucracy needs serious reform. Providentially, there is new legislation being considered in Congress that would do just that: the Merit Act (H.R. 559).
The Merit Act would greatly streamline the process for firing employees who are poor performers, insubordinate, or otherwise engaged in misconduct. Since the election of President Trump, the bureaucracy, including numerous holdovers from the Obama administration, has been engaged in an unprecedented level of obstruction, leaks, and sabotage. These bad actors call it "resistance." FBI and Department of Justice misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe and the Clinton email scandal is only the most visible component.
This is nothing new. President Bush faced similar resistance from the bureaucracy, and going as far back as 1986, the Reagan administration had to contend with a State Department relentlessly working to derail his foreign policy. In the intervening period, we have been treated to stories of almost incomprehensible incompetence and corruption in the federal bureaucracy.
...We have been treated to two years of in-your-face government behaving badly, but it didn’t start then. We have a rare opportunity to fix a major problem that has been festering for decades. Only now, when Congress is controlled by the GOP,and we have a president who is willing to do the heavy lifting on controversial issues, do we have a chance. We cannot afford to squander it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Axios] 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. 
Who will replace Rosenstein?
[BizPacReview] A Democratic operative and former Clinton White House official who is now an advisor to Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, predicted a "strategy" to defeat the US Supreme Court nominee months ago.
[Red State] You knew this was going to happen.
[Breitbart] Failed 2016 presidential candidate and former Florida governor Jeb Bush says Americans who are urging for immigration controls are "threatened" by their perception that the United States is "changing" and becoming "less white."
