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Rosenstein: 'I never pursued' trying to record Trump | TheHill

posted onSeptember 22, 2018
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Article snippet: Deputy Attorney General MORE and discussed the possibility of Trump administration officials invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office. “I never pursued or authorized recording the President and any suggestion that I have ever advocated for the removal of the President is absolutely false,” he said in a statement. “The New York Times's story is inaccurate and factually incorrect. 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," Rosenstein said in an initial statement earlier Friday. "But let me be clear about this: based on my personal dealings with the President, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.”  Other media outlets confirmed Friday that Rosenstein made the comments, though unnamed sources said Rosenstein did so in jest. The allegations are said to have been 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. According to the Times, Rosenstein made the remarks last year to McCabe, who then detailed the Justice Department official's comments in memos, which CNN reports have been turned over to special counsel MORE. The House Judiciary Committee said Friday that it intends to subpoena McCabe’s memos.  The bombshell report comes amid an already tense relationship between Trump and his No. 2 law enforcement offi... Link to the full article to read more

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