Rod Rosenstein, the 2017-2019 Deputy Attorney General who launched the fraudulent Mueller special investigation, previously reported in the media that Rosenstein had discussed wearing a wire into President Trump‘s office and using the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.
Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono questioned Rosenstein about both issues during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in June 2020, and Rosenstein replied at the Time that he had never discussed using the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump.
Back in September 2019, a memo released at Judicial Watch, penned by then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe himself, revealed that McCabe and Rosenstein held a meeting on May 16, 2017, in which Rosenstein offered to wear a wire into the Oval Office to “gather additional evidence about the president’s true intentions additional evidence.”
Acting FBI Director McCabe left in January 2018
This year Rosenstein finally admitted that he talked to McCabe about wiretapping President Trump. In an episode of the Siege on Democracy podcast released last month, Rosenstein said, “I had a conversation with McCabe, the acting director of the FBI, about an investigation he was conducting involving the president and discussed whether the president would be taped during the course of the investigation. It was never my intention to wear a wire, and if Mr. McCabe had asked me to wear a wire, we would have had to rethink the whole thing. Because we can’t be acting as a witness while being a party to an investigation.”
A September 2018 report in the New York Times claimed that Rosenstein discussed the possibility of Cabinet members invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president for unfitness. In an interview with the New York Times, Rosenstein said he did believe Trump was unfit to serve as president. In this year’s podcast, Rosenstein explained, “It depends on what people understand by ‘fit,’ and there’s a lot of discussion about whether the president should be removed under the 25th Amendment. I mean, I think the president is capable of doing the job, but that doesn’t mean I agree with him.”
McCabe, now a CNN contributor who was fired from the FBI in early 2018 and is suing the Justice Department for his wrongful termination, seeking reinstatement and back pay, claims Trump orchestrated the plan to force him out before he was ready to retire. A federal judge ruled last September to allow McCabe’s lawsuit to proceed with the investigation, rejecting the Trump Administration‘s efforts to dismiss the case.
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