EXCLUSIVE: Assistant U.S. Attorney Will Rosenzweig secretly ran anti-Trump blog for YEARS attacking Trump, mocking his supporters, and even plotting “opposition” tactics.
He smeared him as a “mentally unfit” “white supremacist.”
Now he’s using government power to wage LAWFARE against MAGA patriots.
Fire him. ⬇️🧵
He smeared him as a “mentally unfit” “white supremacist.”
Now he’s using government power to wage LAWFARE against MAGA patriots.
Fire him. ⬇️🧵
According to his own Facebook posts, since January 2016, current Assistant United States Attorney Rosenzweig has been running a now-private blog called “Hosts of Error,” where he has been publishing vicious attacks on President Trump and his supporters. Rosenzweig joined the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida at the end of Trump’s first term and still works there today.
Rosenzweig wrote an opinion piece for The Hill in 2016, which likewise identifies him as the author of the “Hosts of Error” blog. In the piece, Rosenzweig argued:
“Donald Trump would be a disastrous President in a myriad of unprecedented ways. He has a hair trigger in a world with infinite provocations. He threatens to upend the post-war security regime that has thus far averted world war. And his explicitly racist policies on immigration, law enforcement, and combating foreign terrorism threaten domestic unrest and foreign upheaval. The only way to brush aside such profound threats to our national security and tranquility is to elevate the importance of something else.”
Rosenzweig wrote an opinion piece for The Hill in 2016, which likewise identifies him as the author of the “Hosts of Error” blog. In the piece, Rosenzweig argued:
“Donald Trump would be a disastrous President in a myriad of unprecedented ways. He has a hair trigger in a world with infinite provocations. He threatens to upend the post-war security regime that has thus far averted world war. And his explicitly racist policies on immigration, law enforcement, and combating foreign terrorism threaten domestic unrest and foreign upheaval. The only way to brush aside such profound threats to our national security and tranquility is to elevate the importance of something else.”
Although Rosenzweig’s blog posts are now private, many of them are available on the Internet Archive. There are too many posts to choose from, but here are a few highlights. The rot at DOJ goes deeper than anyone can imagine.
In 2018, Rosenzweig wrote:
“It has been clear for some time now that Donald Trump is mentally unfit to be president of the United States. This observation has little to do with recognizing his profound lack of knowledge, expertise, or interest in the job, to say nothing of his gusto for dousing America’s smoldering racial and religious divisions with kerosene, or his penchant for looting the government’s coffers for his own private gain. All of that is true, and supports the years-long insistence from Democrats and half-hearted, anonymous leaks from timid Republicans that Trump is fundamentally unable to perform even the most minimal functions of the job. What has become increasingly clear since he took the oath of office, however, is something even more serious—Trump is exhibiting significant mental deterioration and instability.”
In another post, Rosenzweig called Trump an illegitimate President and declared:
“Wholesale opposition to Trump himself is morally essential… Trump is not just an unpopular president; he is the difficulty to be overcome.”
Rosenzweig also argued:
“Trump is not a typical Republican with typically bad policies and typically tone deaf to the needs of America’s downtrodden. He is acting consciously to deplete the pillars of western democracy at home and abroad, who colluded with a geopolitical adversary to gain power, who intends to use that power to enrich himself at the expense of the national interest, who will violate the constitution’s prohibitions on foreign influence and corruption on his first day in office, and who flouts the universal norms that sustain us as an exceptional and just nation. That is why Trump is to be opposed at every turn.”
Rosenzweig also called President Trump “an institutional terrorist” and argued the Senate should refuse to even consider any Trump cabinet-level nominee, writing:
“For there is nothing chaotic or tumultuous about a deliberate plan by an institutional terrorist hell bent on dismantling the citizenry’s trust in its own government. How else could you describe a president so gleeful over the sickening drama he has injected into his own administration’s bloodstream? Rather than replenish a government he has failed to adequately fill, Donald Trump continues to haphazardly hack away.”
In 2018, Rosenzweig wrote:
“It has been clear for some time now that Donald Trump is mentally unfit to be president of the United States. This observation has little to do with recognizing his profound lack of knowledge, expertise, or interest in the job, to say nothing of his gusto for dousing America’s smoldering racial and religious divisions with kerosene, or his penchant for looting the government’s coffers for his own private gain. All of that is true, and supports the years-long insistence from Democrats and half-hearted, anonymous leaks from timid Republicans that Trump is fundamentally unable to perform even the most minimal functions of the job. What has become increasingly clear since he took the oath of office, however, is something even more serious—Trump is exhibiting significant mental deterioration and instability.”
In another post, Rosenzweig called Trump an illegitimate President and declared:
“Wholesale opposition to Trump himself is morally essential… Trump is not just an unpopular president; he is the difficulty to be overcome.”
Rosenzweig also argued:
“Trump is not a typical Republican with typically bad policies and typically tone deaf to the needs of America’s downtrodden. He is acting consciously to deplete the pillars of western democracy at home and abroad, who colluded with a geopolitical adversary to gain power, who intends to use that power to enrich himself at the expense of the national interest, who will violate the constitution’s prohibitions on foreign influence and corruption on his first day in office, and who flouts the universal norms that sustain us as an exceptional and just nation. That is why Trump is to be opposed at every turn.”
Rosenzweig also called President Trump “an institutional terrorist” and argued the Senate should refuse to even consider any Trump cabinet-level nominee, writing:
“For there is nothing chaotic or tumultuous about a deliberate plan by an institutional terrorist hell bent on dismantling the citizenry’s trust in its own government. How else could you describe a president so gleeful over the sickening drama he has injected into his own administration’s bloodstream? Rather than replenish a government he has failed to adequately fill, Donald Trump continues to haphazardly hack away.”
Rosenzweig wrote:
“Donald Trump and his minions don’t know the first thing about running the Government...
If only inexperience, indecision, and incompetence were all. On Thursday, President Trump’s disturbing performance in his first solo press conference as leader of the free world laid bare the reality that the office would not affect the man. There will be no change to his fundamental nature, one that was painfully exposed during the seventeen-month campaign. At his core, Donald Trump is an ignoramus…
Trump speaks at a third or fourth grade reading level. He cannot concentrate or articulate a thought that’s both nuanced and coherent (and sometimes goes 0 for 2). But it’s much more than that. The United States of America has a fundamentally ignorant man running the country, and one uninterested in learning or improving…
So, when the child-president throws his toys at the press and demands a second serving of ice-cream, should we patiently challenge him with tough questions about his playground escapades or dispense with the charade entirely?
This is not to blame the press for participating in press conferences and conducting interviews. After all, Trump does hold the immense powers of the presidency, and how else could we hold him to account? It is, however, to blame everyone who pretends that what is staring us in the face is not so, who contends that this is an acceptable president to be treated normally. James Mattis is responsible. Paul Ryan is responsible. Lindsey Graham and John McCain are absolutely responsible. And thirty years from now, when then-Justice Gorsuch hands down rulings on the limits of police searches of flying cars under the Fourth Amendment and sets profound legal precedents that will stand the test of time, he will still be the weak-willed man who shook President Donald Trump’s hand and thanked him for bestowing that honor upon him.
This president has no clothes. And those that accept an appointment from, pass legislation with, or applaud the decisions of this naked president become as ridiculous as he is.”
In a different post published just 12 days before President Trump’s first inauguration, Rosenzweig wrote:
“For many, 2017 is a bleak prospect in the face of such a sudden and disheartening national transition. A society which had recently welcomed unprecedented change in civil rights and seemed poised for further breakthroughs in immigration reform and real process in criminal and racial justice, which had finally seen the first woman secure a major party nomination, retrenched to embrace a deep cultural hate that blinded it to a grave threat to its future…”
In yet another post, Rosenzweig called Trump “a noxious mixture of policy illiteracy, white supremacy, and macho braggadocio.”
“Donald Trump and his minions don’t know the first thing about running the Government...
If only inexperience, indecision, and incompetence were all. On Thursday, President Trump’s disturbing performance in his first solo press conference as leader of the free world laid bare the reality that the office would not affect the man. There will be no change to his fundamental nature, one that was painfully exposed during the seventeen-month campaign. At his core, Donald Trump is an ignoramus…
Trump speaks at a third or fourth grade reading level. He cannot concentrate or articulate a thought that’s both nuanced and coherent (and sometimes goes 0 for 2). But it’s much more than that. The United States of America has a fundamentally ignorant man running the country, and one uninterested in learning or improving…
So, when the child-president throws his toys at the press and demands a second serving of ice-cream, should we patiently challenge him with tough questions about his playground escapades or dispense with the charade entirely?
This is not to blame the press for participating in press conferences and conducting interviews. After all, Trump does hold the immense powers of the presidency, and how else could we hold him to account? It is, however, to blame everyone who pretends that what is staring us in the face is not so, who contends that this is an acceptable president to be treated normally. James Mattis is responsible. Paul Ryan is responsible. Lindsey Graham and John McCain are absolutely responsible. And thirty years from now, when then-Justice Gorsuch hands down rulings on the limits of police searches of flying cars under the Fourth Amendment and sets profound legal precedents that will stand the test of time, he will still be the weak-willed man who shook President Donald Trump’s hand and thanked him for bestowing that honor upon him.
This president has no clothes. And those that accept an appointment from, pass legislation with, or applaud the decisions of this naked president become as ridiculous as he is.”
In a different post published just 12 days before President Trump’s first inauguration, Rosenzweig wrote:
“For many, 2017 is a bleak prospect in the face of such a sudden and disheartening national transition. A society which had recently welcomed unprecedented change in civil rights and seemed poised for further breakthroughs in immigration reform and real process in criminal and racial justice, which had finally seen the first woman secure a major party nomination, retrenched to embrace a deep cultural hate that blinded it to a grave threat to its future…”
In yet another post, Rosenzweig called Trump “a noxious mixture of policy illiteracy, white supremacy, and macho braggadocio.”
Rosenzweig even compared Trump to Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and wrote:
“The evidence is overwhelming that Trump is not a mere disruptor of the traditional order; he is willingly weakening the country’s indispensable assets and virtues in the service of fame, riches, ego, and revenge.”
During the 2016 election, Rosenzweig asked his readers:
“given Trump’s unconstrained deceit, mustn’t the media abandon the pretense of neutrality in order to hold him to account?”
He also accused the media of being too hard on Hillary Clinton, writing:
“And the grossly unequal coverage between a serious candidate carrying the burden of proof and a halfwit speaking at a fourth-grade reading level while shielded by wealth and masculinity raises troubling questions of implicit sexism that should cause self-reflection for every media personality.”
“The evidence is overwhelming that Trump is not a mere disruptor of the traditional order; he is willingly weakening the country’s indispensable assets and virtues in the service of fame, riches, ego, and revenge.”
During the 2016 election, Rosenzweig asked his readers:
“given Trump’s unconstrained deceit, mustn’t the media abandon the pretense of neutrality in order to hold him to account?”
He also accused the media of being too hard on Hillary Clinton, writing:
“And the grossly unequal coverage between a serious candidate carrying the burden of proof and a halfwit speaking at a fourth-grade reading level while shielded by wealth and masculinity raises troubling questions of implicit sexism that should cause self-reflection for every media personality.”
Rosenzweig’s rants don’t just attack President Trump; they frequently disparage his supporters. In one post, Rosenzweig wrote:
“That so many are still willing to stand by him as he drags them through the dregs of sex tapes and Bill Clinton’s accusers reflects the true predicament bedeviling the party. Trump, one day, shall pass. The GOP’s real problem is not the candidate, but the voters who enable him.”
In response to President Trump’s 2018 State of the Union Address, Rosenzweig wrote:
“Empty thought it may have been, the speech was a fitting capstone for the administration’s first year of restructuring the Republican Party. Trump boasted about a soaring stock market and large corporate tax cuts (populism!) while once again framing the immigration crisis as one of murderous Latino gangs roving suburbia’s sidewalks. Moments before calling for unity, he impliedly chastised black celebrities for not standing for the national anthem. It was a clear marker of where his administration now stands. Trump is a plutocrat happy to hand his less fortunate supporters the figment of control that is white supremacy.”
And in an essay cross-posted to his Medium account, Rosenzweig wrote:
“Needless to say, the outlandish and unreasonable campaign pledges have only gotten more egregious during 2016, from Ben Carson’s 10% tithing-based tax plan, to Jeb Bush’s empty 4% growth pledge, to all of the candidates’ laughably simplistic and uninformed thoughts on combating terrorism, to a certain orange-faced charlatan’s entire platform…
Maybe Republicans have resigned themselves to being the out-party indefinitely given the minority positions their supporters’ delusions force them to hold.”
“That so many are still willing to stand by him as he drags them through the dregs of sex tapes and Bill Clinton’s accusers reflects the true predicament bedeviling the party. Trump, one day, shall pass. The GOP’s real problem is not the candidate, but the voters who enable him.”
In response to President Trump’s 2018 State of the Union Address, Rosenzweig wrote:
“Empty thought it may have been, the speech was a fitting capstone for the administration’s first year of restructuring the Republican Party. Trump boasted about a soaring stock market and large corporate tax cuts (populism!) while once again framing the immigration crisis as one of murderous Latino gangs roving suburbia’s sidewalks. Moments before calling for unity, he impliedly chastised black celebrities for not standing for the national anthem. It was a clear marker of where his administration now stands. Trump is a plutocrat happy to hand his less fortunate supporters the figment of control that is white supremacy.”
And in an essay cross-posted to his Medium account, Rosenzweig wrote:
“Needless to say, the outlandish and unreasonable campaign pledges have only gotten more egregious during 2016, from Ben Carson’s 10% tithing-based tax plan, to Jeb Bush’s empty 4% growth pledge, to all of the candidates’ laughably simplistic and uninformed thoughts on combating terrorism, to a certain orange-faced charlatan’s entire platform…
Maybe Republicans have resigned themselves to being the out-party indefinitely given the minority positions their supporters’ delusions force them to hold.”
Rosenzweig also is apparently a big believer in the Russia hoax and has advocated for using the legal system to go after President Trump. In a July 2017 post titled “Live-Tweeting Obstruction of Justice,” Rosenzweig promoted the Russia collusion hoax and appeared to accuse President Trump of various other crimes.
Rosenzweig also floated the idea of potentially impeaching and/or indicting President Trump, writing in another piece:
“Determining the reasons for his policies and pronouncements, the people most influential in his thinking, and the costs of his actions is critical to a righteous, small “d” democratic opposition. Provable, specific facts are the component parts of any indictments or articles of impeachment, and Trump’s totalitarian truthiness must be met with honest, ethical reporting.”
In one post (which began with “As the remarkable story of President Trump’s secret ties to Russia unfolds each day…”) Rosenzweig even attacked Jamey Comey for supposedly treating Trump too well and not pursuing the Russia hoax aggressively enough.
Rosenzweig also floated the idea of potentially impeaching and/or indicting President Trump, writing in another piece:
“Determining the reasons for his policies and pronouncements, the people most influential in his thinking, and the costs of his actions is critical to a righteous, small “d” democratic opposition. Provable, specific facts are the component parts of any indictments or articles of impeachment, and Trump’s totalitarian truthiness must be met with honest, ethical reporting.”
In one post (which began with “As the remarkable story of President Trump’s secret ties to Russia unfolds each day…”) Rosenzweig even attacked Jamey Comey for supposedly treating Trump too well and not pursuing the Russia hoax aggressively enough.
Having spent years attacking President Trump and his administration, Rosenzweig made the surprising move of joining the US Department of Justice towards the end of the first Trump administration under Bill Barr.
In September 2020, Rosenzweig announced on Facebook that he started working at the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida as an Assistant US Attorney. It appears one of his former Blank Rome law firm colleagues named Lev Kalman apparently commented:
“Congrats. You're one of the good guys. Take em down from the inside.”
Fire this rogue Trump hater @TheJusticeDept! @AGPamBondi @DAGToddBlanche @EdMartinDOJ @USAO_SDFL
In September 2020, Rosenzweig announced on Facebook that he started working at the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida as an Assistant US Attorney. It appears one of his former Blank Rome law firm colleagues named Lev Kalman apparently commented:
“Congrats. You're one of the good guys. Take em down from the inside.”
Fire this rogue Trump hater @TheJusticeDept! @AGPamBondi @DAGToddBlanche @EdMartinDOJ @USAO_SDFL
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