according to sources familiar with the situation. the second most powerful person at the justice department also reportedly discussed with doj officials recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment to remove trump from office for being unfit in the days following fbi director james comey s firing. rosenstein he vehemently denying the claims saying in a statement, the new york times story is inaccurate and factually incorrect. i will not further comment on a story based on nochl souranonyms who are obviously biased against the department. adding, let me be clear about this, based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th amendment. one source who was in the room says rosenstein was being sarcastic when he discussed the wire comment, but others told the new york times which first broke the bombshell story that rosenstein was serious and even raised the idea of others wearing a wire. the times report relies in
attacked her on twitter earlier. cnn, traveling with the president in missouri. and now stunning allegations about the second in command at the u.s. justice department. they say the former deputy director of the fbi show this man, rod rosenstein discussed wearing a wire to record conversations with president trump and recruiting cabinet members to remove hum from office. rosenstein denies it all. president trump was urged not to make any decision right now. at rally the president didn t publicly criticize rosenstein or the report but did have harsh words for the justice department and the fbi. just look at what is now being exposed in our department of justice and the fbi. look at what s going on.
about christine blasey-ford. what this could mean for the mid terms. plus new concerns about the president s next move following the bombshell report about the deputy attorney general. you couldn t engineer a story in a lab more likely to enrage the president. i believe this is going to eventually result in rosenstein s removal, sessions removal, perhaps faster than we realized. we are beginning with the justice department pushing back, with the allegation that rosenstein one floated the idea of taping the president to expos the white house. it was shortly after the president fired comey. in the same meeting, he s also said to discuss recruiting cabinet members to invoke the thatth amendment.
expose the chaos consuming the administration and discuss recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment so they would remove president trump, your dual elected president from office for, quote, being unfit. this all took place during rosenstein s second week on the job after he fired comey based on rod rosenstein s recommendation. he didn t even have to like james comey s shoes and he could have fired him. rosenstein thought he might be able to persuade kelly and the white house chief of staff to invoke the 25th amendment. rod rosenstein wanted to wear a wire and secretly record a sitting president of the united states in both the 25th amendment, a silent coup against his boss by him, mccabe, others,
concerns mounting over whether this could be the end of the line for deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. a new report from the new york times alleges that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein once floated the idea of secretly recording president trump to expose chaos in the white house. the times reporting that it happened in may of 2017, that was during a meeting with other doj officials. soon after president trump fired former fbi director james comey. in that very same meeting, rosenstein is said to have discussed recruiting cabinet members including his own boss attorney general jeff sessions and john kelly to invoke the 25th amendment, but the doj is pushing back now on parts of that report saying rosenstein did not even know john kelly, who was dhs secretary at that time. rosenstein responded to the report last night saying i never pursued or authorized recording the president, and any suggestion this i have ever advocated for the removal of the president is absolutely