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Decent chance Trump will fire Rosenstein just for sport. With Barr in place it wouldn’t look obstruction-y, and Rosenstein is reportedly leaving in a few months anyway, so Trump could look like a dominant gorilla on the cheap. 1/
In November Trump said Rosenstein should be in jail for appointing Mueller, and few noticed because it was like the tenth craziest thing he’d said that week. He could say firing is a compromise! 2/ nypost.com/2018/11/28/tru… 
Firing Rosenstein would delight his House GOP fanboys like Meadows and Jordan, and his Fox News choir would sing hosannas. 3/
Trump might think firing Rosenstein would warn Barr of the consequences of crossing him, but he’d really just be disrupting a smooth transition at DOJ. So he just might do it! 4/end
