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And here's the WaPo take on the Rosenstein remarks. I swear to God this is someone from Trump's camp. Pushing back on the anon OpEd perhaps...prepping his backstory for Rosenstein's upcoming firing? So shady... @25thAmendment
wapo.st/2xqVlyE?tid=ss…
2/"While McCabe’s memos assert both the recording and 25th amendment conversations occurred at a meeting within days of Comey’s firing, another person at the meeting, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, insisted the recording comment was said
3/"in a moment of sarcasm, and that the 25th amendment was not discussed. That person said the wire comment came in response to McCabe’s own pushing for the Justice Department to open an investigation into the president. To that, Rosenstein responded with what this person
4/"described as a sarcastic comment along the lines of, “What do you want to do, Andy, wire the president?” That person insisted the statement was never discussed with any intention of recording a conversation with the president."
5/"Another official at the meeting, then-FBI lawyer Lisa Page, wrote her own memo of the discussion which does not mention any talk of the 25th amendment, according to a second person who was familiar with her account.
6/"A third person familiar with the discussions said McCabe had privately asserted previously that Rosenstein suggested invoking the 25th amendment and the idea of a senior law enforcement officials wearing a wire while talking to Trump."
7/ And herein lies the problem: "The account, first reported by the New York Times, paints Rosenstein as so concerned in May 2017 in the wake of Trump’s firing of then-FBI director James B. Comey that he contemplated secretly recording conversations with the president. He also
8/" initiated discussions about invoking the 25th amendment, which details how the Cabinet can decide whether a president is no longer able to discharge the duties of the job, one of the McCabe memos said. McCabe was fired earlier this year, and a grand jury is weighing possible
9/"charges against him for allegedly misleading investigators in a leak probe. McCabe’s lawyer, Michael Bromwich, said in a statement that his client “drafted memos to memorialize significant discussions he had with high level officials and preserved them so he would have an
10/"accurate, contemporaneous record of those discussions. When he was interviewed by the special counsel more than a year ago, he gave all of his memos — classified and unclassified — to the special counsel’s office. A set of those memos remained at the FBI at the time of his
11/"departure in late January 2018. He has no knowledge of how any member of the media obtained those memos.”
Rosenstein denied the account.
“The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect,” Rosenstein said. “I will not further comment on a story based on
12/"anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.” ~excerpts, WaPo, 9/21/18
This is BAD. Trump is so paranoid & SO down on the DOJ & FBI & Mueller's Inves.--essentially so terrified, that my feeling is that he'll think that McCabe's contemporaneous notes are stone cold truth. He won't understand that much gets lost in translation & that if Rosenstein was
being sarcastic it wouldn't translate. Trump is about to go on a firing spree, I agree with HRC that this will happen right after the midterms, & it's gonna start with Sessions. Whomever leaked this is helping him. Period. The timing is spectacular. #25thAmendment

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