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I didn't realize Rosenstein did this (Original Post) SHRED Apr 2019 OP
Yes, and Rosenstein was on Ken Starr's Iliyah Apr 2019 #1
You only have to know one thing, they are Republicans. Everyone of them are bastards. olegramps Apr 2019 #23
You only have to hang mean bastards... ECL213 Apr 2019 #26
Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over Maraya1969 Apr 2019 #32
Always have been, always will be. They truly believe that the end always amywalk Apr 2019 #30
Trump has found his tumble bugs in Barr and Rosenstein. Hugin Apr 2019 #2
Yes, if Rosenstein hadn't been on the Trump Train, he would be long gone by now. Fla Dem Apr 2019 #21
The first thing you need to know about Rod is that DURHAM D Apr 2019 #3
I have been suspicious of him ever since he helped write that letter triron Apr 2019 #5
"Federalist" Roy Rolling Apr 2019 #14
If Barr & Rosenstein redact Mueller's report for Congress it will be by choice, not legal compulsion Botany Apr 2019 #4
It's gonna get leaked. TruckFump Apr 2019 #6
I am sure this is in the Mueller Report .... Russia was into 50 states Botany Apr 2019 #7
Rosenstein was part of Ken Starr's team...along with Brett Kavanaugh Baltimike Apr 2019 #8
Pic of Rosenstein, Kavanaugh & Azar from the Ken Starr days... PunkinPi Apr 2019 #11
Ugh SHRED Apr 2019 #13
Ugh, indeed. Rosenstein was also at the SC confirmations hearings for Kavanaugh last year. nt PunkinPi Apr 2019 #15
Yep dalton99a Apr 2019 #37
If corruption has an image, this is it. Mr. Evil Apr 2019 #18
They are all white Gregory Peccary Apr 2019 #27
That's rascist IamFortunesFool Apr 2019 #33
Ick. calimary Apr 2019 #35
Barr & Rosenstein are RWNJ's . stonecutter357 Apr 2019 #9
K&R...👍🏼👍🏼 spanone Apr 2019 #10
OK everybody - one more time all together now - DirtEdonE Apr 2019 #12
Someone needs to give Dem Rep. Eric Swalwell a heads up. oasis Apr 2019 #34
Yeah. I saw that. Isn't the whole point of taking back the reins of power calimary Apr 2019 #36
The William Cohen, Chuck Hagel types are long gone from the GOP. nt oasis Apr 2019 #39
Bingo, at this point there are no good republicans, just reThuglicans. c-rational Apr 2019 #40
Rosenstein wrote the letter to cover Trump for firing Comey. HopeAgain Apr 2019 #16
Rosenstein was about to be fired by Trump.... Chakaconcarne Apr 2019 #17
He took that little ride on Air Force 1 with Trump ..anyone remember? Interesting. YOHABLO Apr 2019 #20
From the start, its read like reality TV to me quakerboy Apr 2019 #31
Partisan hack after all Baitball Blogger Apr 2019 #19
"Rosenstein praises 'Lincolnesque' Trump" deurbano Apr 2019 #22
Are Neo-Nazis supposed to be Trump's "opponents" in Rosenstein's scenario? ProfessorPlum Apr 2019 #24
Damn uponit7771 Apr 2019 #25
Down a rabbit hole and gas-lit. 58Sunliner Apr 2019 #28
Oh for Pete's sake... calimary Apr 2019 #38
This whole thing is a setup. Honeycombe8 Apr 2019 #29
goddamn fucking gop malefactors. BlancheSplanchnik Apr 2019 #41

Maraya1969

(22,497 posts)
32. Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over
Sat Apr 13, 2019, 12:33 AM
Apr 2019

And expecting different results

Without direct legal action against this administrator nothing will happen.

Why haven't they subpoenaed the report already FFS!!?

Our Representatives are really getting on my last nerve for allowing all of us to be e walked all over!

I'm so sick of it.

amywalk

(254 posts)
30. Always have been, always will be. They truly believe that the end always
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 07:02 PM
Apr 2019

justifies the means. I can remember my grandfather telling me this when I was a child. He was born in 1895 and died in 1969 in Mobile, Alabama. He was a great man with a big heart for all things poor and hungry.
The Great Depression era was a tough time to live, work and raise a family. He had a garage and gas station and my grandmother was the Post Master in their town. There were a lot of people passing through town looking for work and many of them were starving. He fed everyone who was hungry and bought, repaired and drove a school bus for the children. He was a SJW. I don’t remember him ever saying anything bad about anyone besides Republicans. They weren’t the ones beside him feeding the hungry or clothing the poor kids in their Southern town. They haven’t changed much since then either, in fact, they’ve gotten much worse.

Hugin

(33,198 posts)
2. Trump has found his tumble bugs in Barr and Rosenstein.
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 12:27 PM
Apr 2019

They'll push that wad of crap anywhere he wants to go.

Fla Dem

(23,741 posts)
21. Yes, if Rosenstein hadn't been on the Trump Train, he would be long gone by now.
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 02:15 PM
Apr 2019

While I lose no love over Comey, I think Rosenstein played a role in his firing.

DURHAM D

(32,611 posts)
3. The first thing you need to know about Rod is that
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 12:28 PM
Apr 2019

he is a member of The Federalist Society. That is also the last thing you need to know. He is compromised and has been from day one.

triron

(22,020 posts)
5. I have been suspicious of him ever since he helped write that letter
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 12:31 PM
Apr 2019

justifying firing Comey. That was phony as hell.

Roy Rolling

(6,933 posts)
14. "Federalist"
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 01:32 PM
Apr 2019

WTF is up with these people? Their name shows up wherever there is an ethical controversy involving duty to law versus personal self-interest.

And always personal self-interest seems to be exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind, according to them.

Botany

(70,581 posts)
4. If Barr & Rosenstein redact Mueller's report for Congress it will be by choice, not legal compulsion
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 12:29 PM
Apr 2019

The Mueller report must be damning.

TruckFump

(5,812 posts)
6. It's gonna get leaked.
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 12:31 PM
Apr 2019

There is no way IMO that the full Mueller Report is going to remain locked in a safe for only the DOJ tRump lackeys.

Botany

(70,581 posts)
7. I am sure this is in the Mueller Report .... Russia was into 50 states
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 12:35 PM
Apr 2019

DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targeted in 2016

A joint intelligence bulletin (JIB) has been issued by the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation to state and local authorities regarding Russian hacking activities during the 2016 presidential election. While the bulletin contains no new technical information, it is the first official report to confirm that the Russian reconnaissance and hacking efforts in advance of the election went well beyond the 21 states confirmed in previous reports.

(Any chance that the Mueller Report covers this?)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/dhs-fbi-say-election-systems-in-50-states-were-targeted-in-2016/


BTW example of A.G. Barr trying to run out the clock after being asked if the White House had seen the Mueller Report yet.

“And I was willing to discuss the historic information of how the report came to me …” (It came from Bob Mueller …. end of story)


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/barr-will-not-answer-question-white-house-seen-mueller-report

Baltimike

(4,146 posts)
8. Rosenstein was part of Ken Starr's team...along with Brett Kavanaugh
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 12:50 PM
Apr 2019

No, I am not kidding. Bob Barr was the "pardon everybody from Iran-Contra" guy. Really.

Promise.

PunkinPi

(4,878 posts)
11. Pic of Rosenstein, Kavanaugh & Azar from the Ken Starr days...
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 01:12 PM
Apr 2019


Starr special counsel team photo

Upper-left: Ken Starr, Brett Kavanaugh, Alex Azar
Lower-right: Rod Rosenstein

History may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme.


*It's Bill Barr (AG), not Bob Barr, easily confused since Bob Barr was a GOP congresscritter during Clinton's impeachment and both Barrs are awful.

oasis

(49,407 posts)
34. Someone needs to give Dem Rep. Eric Swalwell a heads up.
Sat Apr 13, 2019, 12:56 AM
Apr 2019

If elected, he plans on putting a couple of Rethugs in his cabinet.

calimary

(81,466 posts)
36. Yeah. I saw that. Isn't the whole point of taking back the reins of power
Sat Apr 13, 2019, 06:22 AM
Apr 2019

to GET RID OF the bad guys? NOT to invite them back in?

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
16. Rosenstein wrote the letter to cover Trump for firing Comey.
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 01:49 PM
Apr 2019

People forget what a sham that was. This would not be the first time Rosenstein obstructed justice.

quakerboy

(13,921 posts)
31. From the start, its read like reality TV to me
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 11:54 PM
Apr 2019

"Oh please Brer Fox, whatever you do, please don't throw me into the briar patch"

Trumps tweets on Rosenstein, on Mueller, on the investigation.. all down the line, start to finish. If Trump manages to stay out of jail, i'd bet money all of these Rightys will be having drinks and laughing together in the not too distant future.

deurbano

(2,895 posts)
22. "Rosenstein praises 'Lincolnesque' Trump"
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 02:26 PM
Apr 2019

http://www.jewishaz.com/us_worldnews/rosenstein-praises-lincolnesque-trump/article_bd428478-53b6-11e8-88db-fba784f207f5.html

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

<<Embattled Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told a Washington audience Sunday that President Donald Trump’s words after last year’s deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville represented a message of unity that needed to be heard during a divisive period in American history.

Following the murder of a counterprotester by a white nationalist, Trump said, “You had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. … You also had some very fine people on both sides.”

“President Trump recognized last August that no matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws, we all salute the same great flag and we are all made by the same almighty God,” Rosenstein said at the Anti-Defamation League’s annual leadership summit...

Rosenstein said Trump’s call for more tolerance after the Charlottesville rally resembled President Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 inaugural address. In that speech, the 16th president urged unity despite bitter divisions between the North and the South over slavery.

“Lincoln insisted his opponents were not enemies, because we were all Americans,” Rosenstein said. “He concluded his inaugural address by appealing to the better angels of our nature. President Trump echoed that statement with his remarks last summer of ‘we must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans.’”...


“When victims are attacked because of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, there are laws that empower [the Justice Department] to respond,” he said. “Enforcing those laws is important to President Trump and Attorney General Sessions.”>>

ProfessorPlum

(11,276 posts)
24. Are Neo-Nazis supposed to be Trump's "opponents" in Rosenstein's scenario?
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 03:03 PM
Apr 2019

Because I have yet to see him display Lincoln-like unanimity with his actual enemies, instead of racists that share Trump's racist agenda with him.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
29. This whole thing is a setup.
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 04:31 PM
Apr 2019

I gotta say, though, that I blame Mueller in part, for not being clearer or firmer or doing something that's apparent to the public. Not that I expect him to damage his reputation or do anything unethical. But a lot of what the team did was based on judgment. I'm sure there was something that was soooo close, he could have erred on the side of letting the public know that there's fire in those embers.

But it is what it is. And now we're faced with a coverup.

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