riflebear said:
Gunny Hartman said:
What info do you have to tie Rosenstein to McCabe?
Weren't they in the same room when Rostenstein 'allegedly' joked about wire tapping Trump? They were also both involved in the final FISA warrants.
I don't know exactly how that ties them together but on a side note there is much more evidence for Rosenstein to to have recused himself than Sessions.
Well that's the thing though. It keeps surfacing that Rosenstein allegedly said this and allegedly said that, but then unlike others like McCabe, nothing remotely concrete ever surfaces to support the allegation that he harbors ill will towards Trump.
I want to give you something to think about Stop for a moment and ponder this--what is Trump's favorite book? The Art of War. And anyone who's read it can tell you that one of the most important themes of the book is deceiving your enemies as to what your actual plans are. Causing them to be fully convinced they know your movements when in fact you've tricked them and have done something entirely different. And Trump just spent almost 50 years in the cutthroat world of NYC real estate perfecting those skills, competing and dealing with other uber successful moguls, corrupt local officials, powerful labor unions, even the mob.
So keeping all that in mind, the latest wiretap allegations surfaced from where? Andy McCabe's memos. Do you trust Andy McCabe to write honest memos about his activities at the FBI? I certainly don't. And Rosenstein didn't even deny saying it, he said that it was a sarcastic response to McCabe suggesting they go after Trump. So let's say that McCabe recognized that Rosenstein was being sarcastic, would he note it that way in his memo? Or would he imply that Rosenstein was being serious to give further apparent support for his position that Trump must be stopped?
So now let's look at the allegation that Rosenstein threatened Republican Congressional staffers. It's kind of interesting that those allegations came from Trump's closest allies in Congress, now isn't it? And does that even pass the smell test to you? if he were going to threaten someone, why would he threaten a bunch of lackeys who were only following orders? The answer is, he wouldn't. He'd go to their Congressman boss and have a private little chat when he'd drop not-so-subtle hints about the potential peril the Congressman is putting himself in by crossing him. THAT is how you make an effective threat--you cut the head off the snake, or in this case, give the head motivation to move in a different direction.
And then you have these regularly dropped anonymously sourced stories about how upset Rosenstein is with Trump. Anonymous sources indeed. Could that be deliberate disinformation? the Democrats have been planting a metric ton of disinformation in the past few years, could Trump be doing it also?
And of course Rosenstein signed off on one of the corrupt FISA warrant applications. That makes him Deep State, right? Or does it? When testifying under oath before Congress, he said that the actual contents of the document were not what was represented to him when he was briefed on it prior to signing, a briefing given to him by people that he presumably had previously respected and trusted. I'd wager as the #2 at the DOJ, he signs a ton of lengthy documents and so likely heavily relies on briefings as to what he's signing to save him time. So was he telling the truth?
I'll tell you one thing that has certainly arisen from all this. Rosenstein gets invited to speak at events such as the uber liberal Aspen Conference, and when he mounts the stage is given a hero's welcome with thunderous applause. He's the darling of the media and the left.
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But let me give you something else to think about, and I'll quote Andrew McCarthy (who I have massive respect for) to help me set the stage:
"For years, Rosenstein had carefully tended to his reputation as an apolitical lawman, beloved of both parties. At a time when Trump nominees for top executive offices were extraordinarily difficult to move through the Senate with Republicans holding a razor thin 51-49 majority, Rosenstein breezed to confirmation as deputy attorney general by the margin of 94 to 6, with overwhelming #Resistance support."
That comes from a scathing rebuke of Rosenstein that McCarthy wrote last month. I think McCarthy is brilliant, and I think he's gotten Sun Tzu'd also and so has read this one wrong.
So here we have a longtime civil servant that over three decades has garnered nothing but great respect from every facet of the DC political establishment. Thus, allow me to posit a scenario: this stringently upright member of the DOJ has sat and watched in horror as it's been revealed that colleagues he once respected engaged in outright partisan and even criminal behavior, even going so far as to deceive him as to the contents of a document that he was asked to sign, all of which has steeled his determination to clean up the corruption in an institution that he'd long been proud to serve within. The president that appointed him explained to him that there's going to be some intentional disinformation spread about him, but that this is a necessary evil in order to protect him from attacks by Democrats and Leftists in the media in order to throw them off the scent, and that the reality is he has his boss' full faith and support to fulfill the mandate given to him by the President of the United States: "Rod, I know that you are very unhappy with what you have seen the past few years, and so I want you to help Jeff drain the Swamp."
This post ended up infinity times longer than I expected it to be when I started it, so I'll wrap it up here with a final question: after meeting privately with Trump on Air Force One shortly after the staggering revelation that he'd suggested covertly recording Trump, does this look like the face of a man who just got his ass chewed out by his boss?