Article snippet: Deputy Attorney General according to a New York Times report. The bombshell story sparked a political firestorm Friday afternoon, prompting an immediate denial from the Justice Department and sparking calls from conservative circles for Trump to fire his No. 2 law enforcement official. The Times, citing people familiar with the matter, reported on Friday that Rosenstein made comments to other Justice Department officials in meetings in spring 2017 about secretly recording Trump after the president fired FBI Director MORE that May. The allegations are said to be laid out in contemporaneous memos written by then-acting FBI Director MORE, who was fired by the Justice Department earlier this year amid an internal leak probe. Rosenstein is fiercely denying the Times’s account, and reports from other outlets on Friday have offered conflicting pictures of the events, with many characterizing Rosenstein's comment about a wire on the president as sarcastic. “The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect,” Rosenstein said in a statement issued by the Justice Department. “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,” he added. According to the Times, which cited unnamed sources, Rosenstein made the remarks last year... Link to the full article to read more