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2021-03-04 Home Front: Politix

Recording Trump was discussed, Rod Rosenstein concedes

[Washington Examiner] Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is finally opening up about his discussion with a top FBI official concerning the investigation into former President Donald Trump's potential ties to Russia.

In his first TV interview since leaving the Trump administration in May 2019, Rosenstein told FOX 5 that there was talk of recording the 45th president for the inquiry but denied that he ever intended to wear a "wire" during the turbulent days that followed Trump firing FBI Director James Comey in 2017 before the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel.

“Nuh uh. Wudn’t me. Musta been some other guy with the initials RR.”

"I had a conversation with Andrew McCabe about an investigation that he was conducting involving the president. And there was a discussion about whether or not the president would be recorded in the course of that investigation. I never intended to wear a wire, and I think that if Mr. McCabe asked me to wear a wire, we would’ve had to reconsider the whole thing. Because you can’t run an investigation and serve as a witness," Rosenstein said in an episode of the Siege on Democracy podcast published last month.

McCabe, Comey's deputy who became acting FBI director for a couple months after the firing, made headlines in February 2019, when he corroborated reporting that claimed Rosenstein offered to wear a recording device while talking to other officials to tape Trump secretly.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-04 09:49|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Wearing a wire, so 1960's. UK's GCHQ can handle it via trusted, former employee contractors.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-04 09:54|| 2021-03-04 09:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Yet another lie revealed at DOJ. There was an insurrection in Washington, the sabotage, disobedience, undermining and criminal conduct of a rebellious federal agency against the duly elected President of the United States. Now, after a clearly questionable national election they turn a blind eye to obvious clues. The corruption is vast and deep on the Potomac and little seems likely to change as they ravage an already looted treasury to enrich friends and create a Socialist Soviet society.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-03-04 11:57|| 2021-03-04 11:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Isn't that what ended Nixon's career?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2021-03-04 14:33|| 2021-03-04 14:33|| Front Page Top

#4 The corruption is vast and deep on the Potomac and little seems likely to change as they ravage an already looted treasury to enrich friends and create a Socialist Soviet society.

USSA: United Soviet Socialist America

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