This is from the 9/22/2018 Politico Playbook:
NOW FOR ROSENSTEIN. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein survived the night after the New York Times’ Adam Goldman and Mike Schmidt reported that he said he was thinking about taping PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP to prove he was not fit to be president. He denied it vociferously. The NYT story
-- READ THE TEA LEAVES, and you get the sense that Trump will not fire Rosenstein. Last night, SEAN HANNITY said this: “I have a message for the president tonight. Under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody.” Hannity said it was a set up.
-- ANNIE KARNI (@anniekarni): “.@IngrahamAngle deleted her tweet that said ‘Rod Rosenstein must be fired today.’”
-- TRUMP’S ALLIES IN CONGRESS were telling us last night that this is a distraction. They want Rosenstein to fork over ANDY MCCABE’S documents so people can judge whether the FBI and DOJ are on the level or not.
Politico lays this out attributing it all to someone else. So if it's wrong, they may not be blamed. But It's also relayed with enough credulity to make it believable.
Trump got suckered into the Obama birth certificate trap, and he may be more skittish now.
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12:55 PM 9/23/2018
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