Rosenstein Combats NYT Piece: ‘There Is No Basis To Invoke The 25th Amendment’

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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein slammed The New York Times’ report that he suggested recording President Trump and invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office, calling the piece “inaccurate and factually incorrect.”

“The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect,” he told the Times in a statement. “I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.”

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  1. Actually, most of the country would disagree with that diagnosis, Dr. Rosenstein…

  2. Avatar for jtx jtx says:

    I am afraid that disclaimer is not enough. If there is a Mueller time now would be good.

  3. Avatar for meri meri says:

    Well, someone sure is a slow writer.

    Maybe he’s been writing his resignation for the last year but hasn’t finished it yet?

  4. Avatar for marby marby says:

    Well, at least comments are working on this thread. Nothing is functional (at least for me) on the earlier NYT/Rosenstein article or the Whelan thread. I love, love, love the commenters here at TPM, but the glitches really do get old.

  5. The definition of pusillanimous.
    We all want to be the hero in the movie that stands up and does the right thing for the sake of the greater good - even these guys I suspect. They have failed and dragged the nation down with them.

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