I am not so certain about the "Rosenstein was being sarcastic" line as others seem to be. May 16, 2017 was a wild time. Days after Trump had given Russians classified intel in the Oval Office, his comments to Lester Holt re: Comey firing.
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Yeah, the framing was definitely odd. As if everything else was normal and only Rosenstein was behaving "erratically."
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Also doesn't clearly explain that a major issue at the time was that Trump might pick a corrupt FBI director who made him private promises. The Post gets a bit closer to saying that's what the "recording" idea was about: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mccabe-memos-say-rosenstein-considered-secretly-recording-trump/2018/09/21/f4aa9a62-bdca-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e43d7c9e5702 …pic.twitter.com/CZBrsnjaLC
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Yup. And it would make sense to propose that to McCabe. It IS a story. It's just NYT didn't tell it. At all. And the result is that they badly misunderstood the significance of it all.
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Lot of reason to believe Rosenstein appointed Mueller as least intrusive choice, bc you had to do something, but there really wasn't evidence of conspiracy yet. And then when the June 9 meeting came out (from congressional requests, not Mueller ones), things went haywire.
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With the range of purported(?) early-campaign intercepts, the fact that it took a year plus for the June 9th meeting to make its way (indirectly, via docs produced to satisfy congressional requests) to DOJ/FBI, finally triggering a serious CI investigation, is disturbing.
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The investigation into Manafort (and Page, who was far less central) was very serious at that point. The biggest question is about Flynn up until the time when it became clear he was lying.
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Yeah, just seems a disturbingly slow investigative reaction time. Do we have a clear picture yet as to the full scope of the 2016 battle Strzok lost to up the seriousness of the probe?
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AP grossly neglects context
28 column " spin NYT hearsay heresy into arguments to fire Rod Rosenstein.https://www.denverpost.com/2018/09/21/rosenstein-secret-trump-taping/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Seems like it was written the way it was leaked.
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