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Dirty Cop Rosenstein Denies He Wanted to Secretly Tape President Trump — But Signed FISA Doc to Spy on Trump in June 2017
As Cristina Laila reported earlier on Friday —
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last year spoke with DOJ and FBI officials about wearing a wire and secretly recording President Trump to be able to build a case that Trump is unfit to hold office.
DAG Rosenstein began plotting Trump’s removal shortly after FBI Director Comey was fired.
James Comey was fired on May 9th, 2017 and DAG Rosenstein appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Trump-Russia collusion a week later.
Rosenstein has been acting as Attorney General since Jeff Sessions recused himself from his duties after he was sworn in.
Rod Rosenstein denied that he proposed to spy on Trump.
Bloomberg Politics reported:
Washington (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is denying a report in The New York Times that he suggested last year he secretly record President Donald Trump in the White House to expose chaos in the administration.
Rosenstein says the story is “inaccurate and factually incorrect.”
The report also says Rosenstein floated the idea of trying to remove Trump from office through the 25th Amendment.
The Times cites several people who described the episodes but were not named in Friday’s report.
Rod Rosenstein signed a FISA warrant to spy on Trump in June 2017.
Rosenstein signed the final FISA Renewal – sometime around June 29, 2017. After Mueller’s appointment as Special Counsel on May 17, 2017.
