FUCK ROD ROSENSTEIN !!!

[uponit7771]

The fact that he's standing their while Barr is re-reading his hack ass'd summary means he's about as much as a hack as Barr is.


These people are the zenith of stupid !!


Only an idiot would give up their reputation of any kind for the guy who ran a fake college and sold "Trump Water"


Stupid !!


STUPID !!

[dhol82]

1. He looks like a robot.

[uponit7771]

9. They probably threatened to kill his kids or something, I ... I just can't believe Rosenstein would

... throw some stinky crap on whatever reputation he had for "trump water".

[dhol82]

13. Sounds plausible.

Shame to see his reputation go to hell.

[DirtEdonE]

18. rosenstein is a repubican. No threats needed.

mueller, rosenstein, comey, now barr - all of them - they strung us along for 22 months so trump and mcconnell and the rest of the traitor gop could complete the gop takeover.

Mission Accomplished.

[uponit7771]

21. This too, jus damn

[DirtEdonE]

24. Did you ever think you'd live to see the day? nt

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

59. Where RethugliKKKons are involved... sadly? YES.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[LovingA2andMI]

51. Bingo!!!

About time folks come to Jesus on this reality!

[Autumn]

26. He's a fucking Republican. He's standing there, because he want's to be there.

he doesn't give a fuck about justice or his reputation. He is where he wants to be.

[Catherine Vincent]

41. Yes...just like he was at Kavanaugh's hearing in support of him.

[still_one]

33. Stepford wife

[BumRushDaShow]

2. He was in charge of Mueller when Sessions first recused then left (was fired)

so he had to be there.

[lapfog_1]

8. he wrote the completely bullshit memo about why Comey was fired

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Yup he did.

[uponit7771]

14. Then ... played like (I'm labeling this now) ... he didn't know what the real reason for the memo

... was.

Rod is a fuckin hack, a hack ... damn, Mueller was under him for the longest ... a fuckin hack

[Hortensis]

46. What? That memo recapped Comey's interference in 2016

and recommended firing "to restore public confidence." It should have recommended criminal prosecution. Hillary Clinton herself blames Comey's long string of harmful actions against her and for the Trump campaign for ultimately throwing the presidency, and with it control of congress and hundreds of state offices, to the Republicans.

Comey's actions went uninvestigated for several months in in 2016 before he took an action so blatant that it immediately sparked OIG investigation into that single action. McCabe was immediately investigated for his late October crime and recommended criminal prosecution.

What is bullshit is that Comey and McCabe both sacrificed their careers as #1 and #2 at the FBI for no reason. Also that this intense corruption in the FBI is not the subject of a special investigation.

[lapfog_1]

48. it was bullshit because it had nothing to do with

why he was fired

[Hortensis]

55. Backwards: Why Comey was fired had nothing to do with his crimes.

Comey should have been able to expect a Republican administration would protect him. But Trump in his delusion thought Comey's support would continue after the FBI helped elect him (a Republican) and attacked him as a traitor when the FBI returned to something much closer to normal function.

Comey knows many secrets about many powerful people and thus is still extremely powerful himself. We can see that clearly enough by the massive corruption protecting him from media exposure. Only here and there do talking heads like Matthew Miller allow little murmurs of truth out met with very brief nods before moving on.

As for the OP, if ignorance is bliss, what's all the anger about? If Rosenstein, Barr and that bearded U.S. Associate DA O'Callaghan were The Three Stooges, everyone could understand well enough because Rosenstein'd be slapping the others, waving his arms, and throwing his hat on the floor.

They're not, though, and Rosenstein's a good man functioning as he believes his professional position requires in the current context.

[uponit7771]

56. A "good man" wouldn't have stood up there while a US AG reread his pro president summary

[Hortensis]

60. Don't imagine this pathetic attempt to weaken public response

is of significant importance. IT IS NOT THE MUELLER REPORT. In future, only thick history books and biographies will mention it at all.

[katmondoo]

3. I hope Trump saved his water, with the new EPA there may not be any unpoluted water left

to drink

[Pachamama]

4. I don't understand Rosenstein

He is truly an enigma for me...

[uponit7771]

15. nah, he's just a fuckin hack ... he could've said he would not be there.

[at140]

34. +1000 exactly what I think too ..nt

[donkeypoofed]

5. Like Comey says, he's a "survivor", no matter what it takes

Looks like Comey was right!

[dewsgirl]

6. He looks terrified, not even blinking.

[PatSeg]

52. That was my take as well

He looks absolutely miserable. His presence there does not mean he endorses what Barr is saying. As Deputy Attorney General, he undoubtedly is required to be there. He looks more like a hostage than an accomplice.

[NewJeffCT]

7. it's telling

that Mueller is not there

[uponit7771]

16. +1, Rosenstein didn't need to be there ... he could've sat that out

[lagomorph777]

19. +1 Mueller will have a few things to say when he testifies.

[bdamomma]

23. Mueller will

now have to be called to testify. I think Rosenstein could have been threatened. tRump's thuggish regime got to him.

[dalton99a]

11. Party over country, always.

[blm]

12. He looks like a man who knows he is helping to hand his country over to Russia.

[uponit7771]

20. +1, maybe the Russians are threatening his family or something. I'm ... just, damn ... Rosenstein

... standing there listening to Barr being a hack is the zenith of stupid.

Jus damn

[lagomorph777]

17. Carrying sump water for trump.

Disgusting

[spanone]

22. Rosenstein fired comey....he is complicit

[StevieM]

45. Comey deserved to be fired, even if not for the reason Trump wanted him gone for.

Comey's action during 2016 were totally illegitimate.

And they absolutely did change the outcome of the race from what it otherwise would have been.

[BigmanPigman]

73. Hear hear!

[Baitball Blogger]

25. He's protecting his pension.

[uponit7771]

28. THIS !!!! Thank you ... It's good to be around smart people. The way the last guy was shit canned ..

... Rosenstein can honestly say he didn't want to be done the same way.

I'm praying he's wearing a wire...

WOW !!

[pimpbot]

35. He could quit

You still get a pension if you quit. I'm also pretty sure there is a job waiting for him anywhere on K street or the news media/book circuit. Rod doesn't have to worry about money.

He chose to stay, and he chose to be up there with Barr.

[dhol82]

36. That sounds more likely.

McCabe was fucked over royally.

[pimpbot]

39. McCabe is still getting a retirement pension

He didn't make it to 50 and 20 years, but he is still getting a pension. He has to wait until he is retirement eligible to collect. The 50 years old and 20 years is a special type of retirement for law enforcement officials. I'm sure McCabe can find work somewhere for the ten years until he can collect his FERS retirement money.

[dhol82]

42. Ok, but still nasty to pull the rug 12 hours or so before he was eligible.

[Cosmocat]

54. Winner, winner, chicken dinner

fat donny set the tone about that already ...

[samnsara]

27. IM so glad im not watching it..i just filter the news thru DU

[vsrazdem]

29. What I noticed was that when the reporters started giving Barr a hard time at the end,

and they walked off, it looked to me like Rosenstein was smirking. Maybe he was happy Barr was getting crap from the reporters.

[uponit7771]

30. Hopefully, another poster upthread said Rod could be protecting his pension.

[pimpbot]

37. Not buying it

He chose to be up there. All he has to do is quit and he will get his pension when he is retirement eligible. As I've also said elsewhere, he would have no problem finding another job.

[uponit7771]

38. +1, Rosenstein could've just noted it down and told a dem congress person about being ordered to ...

... stand up there with Barr.

[FakeNoose]

44. Until a few months ago, Rosenstein thought he would be the next AG

Just think, he'd be the one kissing Chump's ass and rolling over. The way this has played out I think he's glad it isn't him. He's just marking time until retirement. I'll bet he'll write a tell-all book too. How any of these guys can remain in the Republican Party after this, it's a huge mystery to me.

[uponit7771]

49. +1

[badhair77]

31. He's trump's lapdog.

He’s leaving just like the rest - everything trump touches is tainted or dies.

[uponit7771]

32. +1

[MelissaB]

40. Scared shitless and not even blinking.

Link to tweet

[rockfordfile]

53. Nope. I mean people come up with this crazy wtf, are they the same people who watch ghost TV crap

and believe it.

[Cetacea]

76. I videotaped him during the first five minutes based on his eyes

My impression was that he was trying to telegraph something,perhaps that he was forced.

[Baltimike]

43. He was part of the Ken Starr team...what did you expect?

Also...wasn't he supposed to resign? Or...didn't he?

[JohnnyLib2]

47. Clinical intuition says he's high risk for suicide.

Strictly IMO.

[uponit7771]

50. whoa

[Scotch-Irish]

62. Not a chance. n/t

[H2O Man]

57. Respectfully disagree.

Rod is a sphincter. Barr is the foul-smelling discharge from the sphincter. Just my opinion, of course.

[uponit7771]

58. +1

[H2O Man]

61. Thanks.

By Monday evening, things will have changed significantly. I was telling a friend from DU about a growing fracture between Barr and Mr. Mueller. Unreturned phone calls, etc. That could be significant. Judge Walton, too. But even the other things currently brewing will be bad for Barr, and worse for Trump.

[Paladin]

63. Rosenstein looked like a corpse at that press conference.

I hope his embalmed appearance is an indication of a guilty conscience---but I'm not betting on it.

[uponit7771]

64. +1, I'm still kinda holding out for the guy but right now what's in front of my face is he's a hack

[yaesu]

65. Rosenstein had that Pence zombie look, I wonder what kind of drugs they take beforehand? nt

[zentrum]

66. Not stupid.

Do you know how much hidden corruption we have in our politics? He's doing it for money and access to power. His reputation means nothing to him so long as he's guaranteed future lucrative employment which can amount to millions, access to power parties, school entry, jobs for his kids.

We're the hoi-polloi--he certainly doesn't care about his reputation with us.

[Bonhomme Richard]

67. The way I see Rosenstein is a guy who.....

knows right and wrong but simply has no backbone to stand for what's right. That impression I got reading the Andrew McCabe book The Threat. He will do whatever he is pressured to do and leave the feeling guilty for later.

[uponit7771]

72. +1

[deurbano]

68. "Rosenstein praises 'Lincolnesque' Trump" (I feel compelled to keep posting this since

when I first posted about his speech on DU in June, 2018, I was asked if I felt "comfortable aligning wJim Jordan and Trey Gowdy, et al in smearing and and attempting to discredit Rosenstein?" We have to do MUCH better at working the refs!!)

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.”>>

[Honeycombe8]

69. I didn't see that. But we're beyond the summary, aren't we? This is the report, altho redacted.nt

[Soxfan58]

70. I thought

He looked like one of those Jesus paintings that the eyes follow you were ever you go!

[Chakaconcarne]

71. But he let this investigation go for 2 years....

Couldn't he have just killed it?

[uponit7771]

75. We don't know that he didn't at this point, time to hear from Mueller

[pdsimdars]

74. Not just stupid, but betraying the country and rule of law.

[democratisphere]

77. Mueller did not do a complete job. Did Mueller end the investigation

before it was completed or did Barr take office and shutdown the investigation? These questions need to be answered.