Trump: Rod Rosenstein belongs in jail because he picked Mueller

[Borealis]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/trump-rosenstein-belongs-in-jail-1026104

President Donald Trump defended his decision to retweet a meme this week depicting his political opponents behind bars — including his sitting Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein — signaling more storm clouds for the embattled No. 2 at the Justice Department after what appeared to be a brief reprieve from Trump’s attacks.

In an interview with the New York Post, Trump was asked about the photoshopped image, which depicted targets of Trump attacks like former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill
Clinton, 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Robert Mueller, Huma Abedin and James Comey overlaid with the text “Now that Russian collusion is a proven lie, when do the trials
for treason begin?” Tucked just above Obama's head in the photo is Rosenstein's, smaller than almost all the other individuals in the image.

Rosenstein belongs in jail, Trump said, because “he should have never picked a special counsel.” Rosenstein is responsible for picking Mueller to lead an investigation into Russian
interference in the 2016 election — a probe that now includes whether Trump sought to obstruct justice — following then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to recuse himself
from the investigation and Trump’s decision to fire Comey, then the FBI director.

After his firing, Comey passed to the media memos detailing interactions he’d had with the president, including one in which Trump reportedly asked the FBI chief for his loyalty. The p
ublication of details from Comey's memos helped prompt Rosenstein to appoint a special counsel, a move that has earned the ire of Trump.

In his interview with the Post, Trump declined to say whether he would fire Rosenstein, though the deputy attorney general offered the president his resignation in September, after it
was reported that he may have sought to remove Trump from office.

Trump did, however, double down on his firing of Comey, a step the White House initially claimed the president took based on a recommendation from Rosenstein. Trump later
conceded that he had made his mind up to fire Comey before receiving Rosenstein's recommendation and that it was the bureau's ongoing Russia investigation that was on his mind
when he decided to dismiss the FBI director.

Thank God I fired Comey,” Trump told the Post, invoking former FBI officials who Trump felt were biased against him. “Because if I didn’t fire Comey, we wouldn’t know about [Andrew]
McCabe, we wouldn’t know about [Peter] Strzok and his lover Lisa Page.”

[elix]

"Anyone who tries to hold me responsible for my actions should be punished at least as hard as me."

No, Donnie baby, that's not how it works. Rosenstein did nothing wrong, except to you personally because you think you should be a dictator.

[That Sprite]

He's panicking.

[Orbito]

Its bad when the sitting president of the united states of america is calling for treasonous charges against a DOJ official because he assigned someone to investigate a claim that actually caught serious shit with the president.

like holy shit this is happening.

[smurfy]

This is the first time I've heard them roll out Strzok and Page in quite a while. They really ran that into the ground and ended up with nowhere to go on it, and they're not gonna be able to infinitely investigate it now that they lost the House

[ASparkle]

Rosenstein was the only Trump appointee who actually did his job, and that's why Trump hates him.

[rrkpp__]

I still think it's so funny that was controversial in the first place. As if nobody in the FBI privately has pro/anti Trump opinions other than those two. Show me they interfered in the investigation or fabricated evidence and then we'll talk.

[Death-trooper]

don't forget Mad Dog Mattis.

[Sableye]

my worry is they'll use the senate investigation as a partisan tool like they did the house one.