• Rosenstein’s meeting with Trump pushed to next week, White House says
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/rosensteins-meeting-with-trump-pushed-to-next-week-white-house-says/2018/09/27/fdf2e91e-c273-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html?utm_term=.1b1c08c14772 Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosentein’s fateful meeting with President Trump over the future of his job will be pushed to next week, the White House announced Thursday. In a statement around 12:30 p.m., the White House said Trump “spoke with Rod Rosenstein a few minutes ago and they plan to meet next week.” The statement said the two men did not want to do anything that might affect with the ongoing congressional hearing over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. “They do not want to do anything to interfere with the hearing,” the statement said. The move was expected. Trump said at a news conference Wednesday that he hoped to postpone a planned Thursday meeting and keep Rosenstein in his job — even amid news reports that the deputy attorney general last year suggested using a wiretap to monitor the president, or invoking a constitutional amendment to force him from office. Rosenstein has disputed those reports — which are based in large measure on what former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe alleged in contemporaneous memos the deputy attorney general had said. Trump has a light schedule Thursday afternoon and is expected to watch the Supreme Court hearings from the White House. He will visit his Trump International Hotel in the evening for a fundraiser.
If anything is in character for Trump, it's avoiding confrontation to watch Fox News cover something.
At least this means he keeps his job for one more week. I'll take this as a bit of optimism. If he had the intention of firing him from the start, I doubt this would have been postponed.
I was actually wondering about this meeting during the senate hearing, hoping it wouldn't overshadow whatever might have happened to him.
If firing is not the terms, then I hope the President somehow doesn't attempt something rash like acknowledging that he knows where his family lives, or something threatening like that.
As this WaPo opinion column points out, for a man whose TV career centered around firing people, Trump is actually a total coward about firing people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/25/president-trump-is-afraid-fire-people/
He's probably terrified of confrontation, doesn't expect people he fires to fight back.
I fully expect Trump to fire Rosenstein through Twitter.
probably on saturday night given he's such a student of history.
Makes since, he didn’t have the balls to fire Comey in his face.
So, be on the lookout next week for another round of information warfare, then. Thanks for the heads up, White House
"Resign" "No. Fire me or else I'm going back to work." "shit I thought that would work."
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