The White House is preparing talking points
The buzz is that they’re getting closer to firing Rosenstein.
The White House is preparing talking points designed to undermine Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s credibility, according to sources familiar with the plan.
The plan calls on President Donald Trump’s allies to cast Rosenstein as too conflicted to fairly oversee the Russia investigation.
Too “conflicted” how? Because Trump has been so busy trashing him for months? That’s how this mob operates: “he can’t testify against me, I’ve given him far too many reasons to hate me!”
Efforts to undermine Rosenstein in the media come as the President is weighing whether to fire the top official overseeing the Russia investigation.
Trump is still livid about the raid on his private attorney Michael Cohen — “He’ll be pissed about it until he dies,” another source said — and he and his allies are increasingly convinced that Mueller and Rosenstein have overstepped their bounds.
Well, “convinced” – what does that mean in Trump’s case? He doesn’t have enough ratiocination to be anything properly called “convinced” – he’s just more or less devoted to any particular lie.
One area of conflict the White House wants its surrogates to highlight: Rosenstein’s role as a key witness to the Comey firing, sources said. Rosenstein wrote the memo justifying Comey’s dismissal. It centered on his conduct in investigating Hillary Clinton’s use of private email.
In a somewhat illogical pairing, the White House is also looking for Trump’s allies to cast Rosenstein and Comey as close colleagues — even though Rosenstein helped provide the basis for Comey’s firing.
What I’m saying. Trump doesn’t think, he just throws stuff at the wall, and his “allies” follow suit.
Trump himself has remained preoccupied with the Russia investigation, even as his administration weighs launching strikes in Syria in response to a chemical gas attack. Twelve minutes before Sean Hannity was set to hit the airwaves on Wednesday, his most powerful regular viewer seemed to know what was in store.
“Big show tonight on @seanhannity!” Trump wrote on Twitter. “9:00 P.M. on @FoxNews.”
As presidents do.
What followed was a nearly hour-long screed on the swirl of perceived Justice Department offenses against Trump and a preemptive strike against James Comey, the FBI director Trump fired who embarks next week on a book tour.
Thirty minutes into the television program that Trump promoted on Wednesday, attorney Joseph DiGenova — who nearly joined Trump’s legal team before withdrawing because of conflicts — barked his instructions.
“Rod Rosenstein is so incompetent, compromised and conflicted that he can no longer serve as deputy attorney general, and Jeff Sessions now has an obligation to the President of the United States to fire Rod Rostenstein,” he said, his voice raised in anger.
He wasn’t alone. Earlier on Fox, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich described Rosenstein as ineffective at keeping Mueller within bounds.
“The fact is Rod Rosenstein has not done his job. He has not supervised Mueller. This whole thing is an absurdity,” Gingrich declared on “Fox and Friends,” the regular soundtrack of Trump’s early mornings. “The fact is, this is a left-wing bureaucracy at Justice. It is anti-Trump. It is anti-Republican.”
Left-wing ffs.
If he does…we won’t have time to do anything else.
Very clever of the left to coopt two lifelong Republicans, one of whom was appointed by Trump, himself and the other appointed because Trump fired Comey.
“too conflicted”
“overstepped their bounds”
“incompetent, compromised and conflicted”
“ineffective”
“has not done his job”
“This whole thing is an absurdity”
Now that’s projection strong enough to let you stand on Earth put on a shadow play across the face of the Moon.
And we have to ask – what of the mastermind of this deep state conspiracy, the one responsible for appointing the pinko commie leftie subversives Rod Rosenstein and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III so that they could organize this treacherous attack on the presidency of Donald Trump?!
Er….
Jeff, the enemy is “the left”. The vast evil hive mind funded by George Soros.,bent on destroying your democracy.
Chris, I’ve begun to realize that “the left” is synonymous with “the blob” to these folks. “The left” is spreading, eating everything in its path in some sort of evil scheme to destroy all that is good and right. And it is single-minded in its purpose, and working as a sort of homogeneous (though gooey) singular unit – the true hive mind.
In short, these people have some sort of inner fantasy about what “the left” is, and cannot recognize that the right has held the power for a long time, to the extent that even Democratic presidents don’t dare be progressive. It’s funny in a sick sort of way to see people who have continue to win (even while getting fewer votes) and continue to set the agenda never realize it has happened.
I suspect the right can only thrive by being in opposition, by being against whatever is happening, and being obnoxious and obstructionist. They can’t realize when they win, because they can’t afford to win. It takes away the entire meaning of their life.
“t’s funny in a sick sort of way to see people who have continue to win (even while getting fewer votes) and continue to set the agenda never realize it has happened.
I suspect the right can only thrive by being in opposition, by being against whatever is happening, and being obnoxious and obstructionist. They can’t realize when they win, because they can’t afford to win. It takes away the entire meaning of their life.”
Of course not everyone who supports or identifies with “the right” actually benefits from the control of power the right wields, nor are they meant to. The rich get richer, of course, but that wealth stays with them, it doesn’t filter down to those rightists lower down the ladder, who are expected to content themselves with the vicarious thrill of seeing reactionary social policies stick it to Libs and other hated Others. But the sop only goes so far Less -than-wealthy rightists can continue (and are encouraged) to blame those hated Libs and Others when the expected material benefits -their slice of America’s renewed “Greatness”- fails to materialize. It has to be the evil machinations of Soros/Clinton/Obama/Mexicans/fraudulent voters behind the scenes who are somehow holding back the flood of prosperity which was promised to them. They can’t or won’t see that it’s the very Republicans for whom they voted who have betrayed them. Meanwhile the corporate elite are keeping that wealth to themselves while continuing to export jobs and try to gut what little in the way of social programs remain so they can suck the money out of those, too.
The Republicans have been incredibly successful at getting those whom they have betrayed for decades to direct their anger, hatred and resentment at the Democrats, who stupidly played along by actively watering down their own agenda in a misguided attempt to make it bipartisanly palatable to people who would never vote for it anyhow.