February 17, 2019
THE QUESTION IS WHY THEY DIDN'T:
Two Witnesses Back Account Rosenstein Considered Taping Trump (Billy House, February 17, 2019, Bloomberg)
The explosive assertion that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein considered secretly recording President Donald Trump has been backed up in private testimony to Congress by two FBI lawyers.Both officials also told lawmakers that there was simultaneous talk in the spring of 2017, just months after Trump's inauguration, that two unidentified Cabinet officials were on board with the idea of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump as president.Sally Moyer, who worked in the FBI's Office of General Counsel, wasn't in the room when Rosenstein allegedly raised the idea of wearing a wire in order to secretly record interactions with Trump. But she testified behind closed doors in October 2018 of being told that the conversation had taken place during a high-level Justice Department meeting in the days after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on May 9, 2017.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 17, 2019 9:22 AM