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Deputy Atty Gen. Rosenstein, in statement, says today's @NYT bombshell - that alleges he considered tape recording the president in the White House - and recruiting Cabinet members to weigh removing Trump from office via the 25th Amendment - is inaccurate
Rosenstein's statement: “The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect. I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda" (more)
Rosenstein's statement continue: "But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.” President is in Las Vegas today; no reaction yet - Extraordinary developments on this busy Friday
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We were told that Americans have never had it so good. And yet 40% of us don’t have even $400 to deal with an unexpected expense.
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First film screened in the new White House movie theater - this day in 1942 - and it was a good one
Times Square, New Year's Eve, 1945
World War II was over and America stood astride the world like a colossus; never again would it be so utterly dominant: half the world's GDP, untouched by the war itself - the only country with the bomb
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One of the worst years in American history was finally over, and Lyndon Johnson - his five-year presidency also at an end - celebrated. That awful year easily remains the worst America has endured in the last half-century
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Two Presidents died on this day. Modest men from the Midwest, each had been VP for just a few months before ascending to the top job. Harry Truman, the 33d POTUS (1945-53), died in 1972; Gerald Ford, the 38th (1974-77) in 2006
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Rosenstein Should Be Fired, Mueller's Probe Should End

foxnews.com/opinion/2018/0…
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s actions, as recounted by the New York Times Friday, are the equivalent of an attempted coup -- a plot to overthrow the president.
As the Times reveals, Rosenstein was furious that Democrats blamed him for the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
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Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein denies a New York Times report that he suggested last year he secretly record President Trump to expose chaos in the administration @AP
“The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect,” he said in a statement. “I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda.”
”But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.”
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Rosenstein suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House and he also discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump. But there’s no deep state right? nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/…
“Rosenstein made the remarks about secretly recording Trump and about the 25th Amendment in meetings and conversations with other Justice Department and F.B.I. officials.” Who are these “officials”?
What to make of this...
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In the days after Comey's firing, DAG Rosenstein suggested that he secretly record Trump to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the #25thAmendment to remove Trump from office for being unfit nyti.ms/2xxNdwl
A hit job, with the NYT the willing accomplice.

Clears the way for Trump to (try to) shut down the special counsel's investigation, just as key dominoes are falling.
This supports the statement (buried in the NYT piece) provided by DOJ from a person who was present, who said Rosenstein made the remark sarcastically
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WH recycling rebukes😂😂😂
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wapo.st/2Q4Uew7
"The president urged senior White House aides and Cabinet members to speak up if they disagreed with how they were quoted in the book. "

Yes read that again😝
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Trump was going to help Woodward shape the book? Dang he's delusional😂
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House Freedom Caucus members filed Articles of Impeachment against
Deputy AG Rod #Rosenstein ("Mueller's boss") claiming he hasn't been responsive to their demands for documents regarding the #Mueller investigation.

What does it mean & what do we do? 1/5
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