Rod Rosenstein, US Deputy Attorney General Who Appointed Mueller, Submits Resignation

After recommending to Trump in 2017 that FBI Director Comey be fired, Rosenstein became part of what Mueller would be investigating. In addition to being Mueller's boss, Rosenstein was called out for this conflict of interest by the acting director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, but Rosenstein refused to recuse himself, and later expanded Mueller's mandate. Now Rosenstein exits, stage left, come May 11. Good riddance.

From Reuters via The Epoch Times: "Rosenstein’s departure, effective May 11, was not a surprise. He had been expected to step down in March. The White House had no immediate comment, but noted that Trump had already nominated Deputy Transportation Secretary Jeffrey Rosen to replace him.

Rosenstein ended up staying on the job longer to help Attorney General William Barr manage the public release of Mueller’s findings from the 22-month investigation, which was completed on March 22."


 Paul Mirengoff at Powerline posted this assessment yesterday about Rosenstein’s departure: " No extraordinary circumstances justified using a special counsel. As even James Comey admitted privately, at the time Mueller entered the scene there was no sound basis for believing that Trump colluded with the Russians (and Mueller, after all his digging, found none). Nor did the firing of Comey justify Rosenstein’s decision to bring in Mueller. Rosenstein himself recommended that Comey be fired. And the firing did not derail the investigation into Russia and the 2016 election.

There are also substantial arguments that Rosenstein should have recused himself from the investigation. I won’t rehearse them here."

Despite the incessant incantations for impeachment of Donald Trump from the Democrats & their parrots in the MSM, the Mueller report exposed the two year-long Big Lie of Russia / Trump collusion for what it is - a two year-long Big Lie to sabotage our Constitutional system in order to perpetrate a soft coup to oust a duly elected president. Yes, duly elected - regardless of what you personally feel about 'Orange Man Bad.'

I predict historians will view this dark, turbulent time as not just a grievous scandal perpetrated during the 'scandal-free' Obama administration; it will be considered the gravest Constitutional crisis since Pres. Nixon(R) resigned in disgrace nearly 50 years ago.

Today, the top echelons of the Justice Dept. - in particular the FBI (and to a lesser extent the CIA & NSA) - lay in tatters, its credibility in ruins, along with that of a complicit, ridiculous media which is little more than a clown show of tribal propaganda for the echo chamber inside the DC beltway.

Now Rosenstein exits, stage left, come May 11. Good riddance.