Rosenstein

[KT2000]

I don't trust him. He wrote the letter that justified firing Comey, knowing it was BS. He supposedly worked with Barr on the letter. He is credited with protecting the Mueller investigation and retire into obscurity. Who is he really?

[manor321]

1. I no longer trust him

Of course, I suspect Barr used him and name dropped him for protection. But, whatever.

It doesn't matter anymore because the investigation is over. NOW WE CAN HEAR DIRECTLY FROM MUELLER!

[Jarqui]

2. And get some sense of additional evidence nt

[democratisphere]

3. Hardcore rethug.

Party politics over country.

[awesomerwb1]

4. He's a republican. Why are you trusting any of them?

Even the "lovable" Ana Navarro, and Wilson.....trust me.....they will return to being republican douche**** when the trump era is over. Guaranteed.

[bluestarone]

5. Subpoena him first then Barr THEN

Mueller!!

[Corgigal]

6. But he's getting

his federal pension, cause he's a player. The non players got the boot.

[imanamerican63]

7. There are a bunch of unanswered questions!I hope Congress puts them inder investigation also?

[UniteFightBack]

8. Well he found himself in a pickle so that is why he had to squash this obstruction thing because

rump used him in that letter and he really doesn't want that brought up again since it was lies.

[RockRaven]

9. Comey said of him: "Rod's a survivor" and Comey didn't mean that as a compliment

but rather as an explanation for why he takes the actions he takes.

[deurbano]

10. I've been wary of Rosenstein, too. That got me accused of trying to "discredit" him on DU.

We do a terrible job of “working the refs," while the members of the party of Davis are absolute pros. They scream like banshees with their completely manufactured claims of persecution and liberal bias, while we quietly cling to the hope that decency will triumph in the end, baselessly putting our faith in the “good” Republicans, when they are proven time and time again to be nonexistent. We should have shrieked to the high heavens when Comey-- a Republican who had investigated both Clintons before, and had already come to damning conclusions about them-- didn’t recuse himself from the investigation of HRC in the first place! Then we should have wailed even louder when he staged that unprecedented press conference to spitefully attack HRC while “clearing” her. Instead, we wanted to believe that justice would prevail, and we should just “honor” the process and let it play out. While we may have been disturbed at his "reckless" violation of Justice Department norms, we didn't want to "undermine" the legitimacy of the decision not to recommend charges, so we stifled our anger and made only the faintest of objections. Meanwhile, THEY bellowed like stuck pigs because he didn't "lock her up!" If WE had bellowed louder and longer than they did, maybe we could have staved off Comey's final (insurmountable) treacherous act. (But he was much more afraid of their reactions than ours… and justifiably so... and ditto for the media.)

Like Comey, Rosenstein was also involved in the partisan persecution of the Clintons via the Whitewater investigation. Again, we should have shrieked to the high heavens about his Republican partisanship (a fox guarding the henhouse), and then continued shrieking through the appointments of Whitaker and Barr. For god's sake, Barr explicitly described what he thought of the investigation before he was hired... which was WHY he was hired. But we kept hearing he was upstanding and legit (unlike Whitaker)... and though partisan, would still follow established norms... etc., ad nauseam. (Rinse, repeat.)

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10142098208#post1

In addition to the BS letter justifying firing Comey, there was this:

Rosenstein praises ‘Lincolnesque’ Trump 
http://www.jewishaz.com/us_worldnews/rosenstein-praises-lincolnesque-trump/article_bd428478-53b6-11e8-88db-fba784f207f5.html 
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 

<<Embattled Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told a Washington audience Sunday that President Donald Trump’s words after last year’s deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville represented a message of unity that needed to be heard during a divisive period in American history. 

Following the murder of a counterprotester by a white nationalist, Trump said, “You had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. … You also had some very fine people on both sides.” 

“President Trump recognized last August that no matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws, we all salute the same great flag and we are all made by the same almighty God,” Rosenstein said at the Anti-Defamation League’s annual leadership summit... 

Rosenstein said Trump’s call for more tolerance after the Charlottesville rally resembled President Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 inaugural address. In that speech, the 16th president urged unity despite bitter divisions between the North and the South over slavery. 

“Lincoln insisted his opponents were not enemies, because we were all Americans,” Rosenstein said. “He concluded his inaugural address by appealing to the better angels of our nature. President Trump echoed that statement with his remarks last summer of ‘we must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans.’”... 


“When victims are attacked because of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, there are laws that empower [the Justice Department] to respond,” he said. “Enforcing those laws is important to President Trump and Attorney General Sessions.”>> 

[KT2000]

11. didn't know about the Lincolnesque

comment. He's a bigger jerk than I thought.
I think you are right about our need to wail. We tend to look for heroes in the RW and protect them, hoping they are people of integrity. Comey, Rosenstein, Barr etc. - partisan swampsters.

[deurbano]

13. There was almost no mention anywhere of those grotesque and absurd comments.

When I mentioned them on TPM, someone suggested Rosenstein was just using flattery to keep his job so he could make sure the investigation wasn't shut down. (I certainly wanted to believe that was true...) And like I said before, here on DU I was accused of trying to discredit the investigation by even expressing concern about the "elephant" (a metaphor twice over) in the room.

While our unworthy opponents constantly project their evil onto us, in these cases where a just outcome is so heavily dependent on professionalism (vs. tribalism) from longtime Republicans, I think we project too much objectivity, decency and integrity onto them. We're the ones who are supposed to be living in the reality-based world, but this is a case where we sometimes seem even more deluded than they are.

(And yet... I still keep hoping there is another explanation, and Rosenstein will come through somehow in the end!)

[ananda]

12. Look, they're all Reeps!

Nuff said.