Mueller’s overseer portrayed as Trump quisling
A Washington Post article published Friday calls into question the objectivity and ethics of Rod Rosenstein, the senior Justice Department official who oversaw the Mueller investigation.
According to the Post, six months ago, Rosenstein saved his job by giving Trump personal assurances that he was “on the team” and could “land the plane,” i.e. wrap up the Mueller investigation in a way acceptable to Trump. Rosenstein also told Trump he was not a “target” of Mueller’s investigation. Mueller’s report describes Trump as a “subject” of the investigation — one Mueller could not indict or compel to testify.
Rosenstein was a party to the press conference at which his boss, Attorney General William Barr, who is widely considered a Trump lackey, misled the media and public about what was in the Mueller report. Although Rosenstein did not speak at the presser, he signed Barr’s 4-page letter to Congress that falsely claimed the Mueller report exonerated Trump.
The revelations about Rosenstein seem likely to spark a new round of congressional investigations into Trump’s interference with Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election that put Trump in the White House.
Read the Washington Post article here and watch a video of MSNBC’s analysis here.
Image: Report depicts Rosenstein as a weeping weakling who sucked up to Trump to save his job
WAPO is just engaging in the western concept of bringing down heroes. After all Rosenstein was a hero for starting the investigation and putting Comey and the Mueller in charge.