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Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein suggested he secretly recorded @POTUS and discussed the 25th Amendment, reports @nytimes. nyti.ms/2xxNdwl
“The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect,” Rosenstein said in a statement. “Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.”
My colleague @masoodfarivar relays from source who was in room (with DAG when he made the comment): “I remember this meeting and remember the wire comment. The statement was sarcastic and was never discussed with any intention of recording a conversation with the president.”
From a @GOP member of @senjudiciary:
Statement from @SenSchumer on the @nytimes story.
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All based on ANONYMOUS *SECONDHAND* accounts:

“Several people described the episodes, insisting on anonymity...The people were briefed either on the events themselves or on memos written by F.B.I. officials...”

WYD @nytmike and @adamgoldmanNYT?
Publishing an incendiary report like this based on such thin and distant sourcing is journalistic malpractice.

Publishing an incendiary report like this without revealing the relationships of the sources to Trump (ie “close to the WH” or “Dem operative”) constitutes propaganda.
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