Trump fires Preet Bharara as U.S. Attorney for New York’s Southern District, and replaces him with a handpicked and personally interviewed Geoffrey Berman. Surely he thought this guy would have his back. But, like Sessions, he recuses himself from issues involving Mueller’s probe, dumping it all back in Rosenstein’s purview.
Trump is six stages of livid right now. Funny stuff.
"We’ll see what happens,”
Yes you ignorant fat fuck criminal grifting shyster
"We’ll see what happens,”
And I am willing to bet criminal charges against you are one of the “Happens”
Who knew conspiring to obstruct justice could be so complicated?
Rod has got some balls.
I just don’t think you make it as a career civil servant without thinking your job is important and taking it seriously.
Harriet Myers he ain’t.
Thank you for your integrity, Mr. Rosenstein…
Isn’t his signing off, just protocol? i mean mueller would have had to come to rosenstein with his evidence to get the sign off anyway. I wonder how many other depts signed off on the evidence in addition to the DOJ and FBI?
The big point is that Berman recused himself…oh thats gonna leave a mark…
I will go out on a limb here and posit that there are still some people with ethics and a belief in rule of law no matter how their politics run
Trump is so dirty no one wants catch the fallout from the cloud of scandal
This is going to make for awkward meetings in the White House men’s room.
“The Rosenstein Strikes Back!”
Oh, please, please, please, please!
“Asked if he’d seek to fire Mueller, which would require going through Rosenstein, Trump appeared to leave the door open.”
Just look at Rosenstein in that photograph.
So calm…so collected…so confident.
He’s totally seen the Trump pee-pee video, hasn’t he?
only if he were so nauseous?
Is anyone else noticing that Cohen solicited a 150k honorarium for a 20 minute speech Trump initially offered to do for free, and that the amount lines up with the hush payment to McDougal?
Does the timing match too?
Uhmmmm…Those two depictions are counter-intuitive. Calm? Collected? Confident? T rump pee-pee video? Uhmmmmm…
He’s also go some perspective. His name will be dragged through the mud for centuries after this if he’s Trump’s sycophant. All he has to do to do the right thing and uphold his good name is tolerate Trump’s periodic tantrums directed towards him and do his GD job like he was hired to do. Normal non-nazi Americans understand this because it’s very obvious and easy to understand.
I’m worried about trump getting rid of rosenstein and whoever he is replaced with will fire meuller
Whoever Trump would appoint needs Senate confirmation. So, there is that and who would accept the position knowing loyalty to Trump comes before defending the Constitution? I dunno -Kasowitz?