White House provides pool, on background, the White House timeline of the immediate circumstances that led to Comey's firing:pic.twitter.com/hCsd1ZSxRG
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This is even by the White House's own telling.
Rosenstein was put in an absurd (if inevitable) position — in the Oval Office with the person whose campaign Comey was investigating ...
... and the man whose involvement in those issues led him to say he was recusing himself. Then, they discussed firing Comey.
Then, the next day, he sent a memo detailing an ~unrelated~ reason to fire Comey to the man who was recused from those investigations.
And that allegedly recused man seconded the recommendation, wrote his own letter, and forwarded both to Trump, who then fired Comey.
The key 8 words in that Post story are: "said the person close to the White House" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-trumps-anger-and-impatience-prompted-him-to-fire-the-fbi-director/2017/05/10/d9642334-359c-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.31b178bc2ef6 …pic.twitter.com/jRE32pdMAD
A lifetime prosecutor met w POTUS & AG, got a directive to write a justification-for-firing memo, then was surprised by the narrative? No.
Only someone in this White House could think that's a plausible story.
was the Monday meeting routine, already scheduled or called to discuss Comey?
Not sure (— but not sure that's relevant as to my specific point here).
one day of prep. That's enough to turn over a gigantic vital govt agency, right?
They *were* sitting in the plane on the tarmac a long damn time after golf in NJ...
The memo Trump *didn't* order him to write, of course. Please continue...
met with Sessions who was recused from both scenarios cited in memos "hey Rosenstein, type this up in ur own words...u didnt hear it frm me"
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