Washington (CNN) – The White House is preparing talking points designed to undermine Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s credibility, according to sources familiar with the plan.
The plan calls on President Donald Trump’s allies to cast Rosenstein as too conflicted to fairly oversee the Russia investigation.
The talking points are still in their preliminary form, and not yet finalized, people familiar with their preparation said. The White House and the Justice Department declined to comment.
Already, a number of Trump’s associates have called for Rosenstein’s firing in appearances on television and in public remarks over the past few days, but not all of them did so at the request of the White House.
As special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump encroaches further into the President’s inner circle, his allies outside the White House are ramping up their efforts both to defend him and to encourage a tougher stance against a probe they claim has dramatically overstepped its bounds. FBI agents relied on search warrants that had been executed by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in conducting the raid. They obtained the warrants after receiving a referral from Mueller’s office.
Firing Rosenstein or Mueller himself could inject new turbulence into Trump’s presidency. Legal experts, Democrats and some Republicans have said it could prompt a constitutional crisis. It would almost certainly derail policy efforts as Trump works to enact his agenda ahead of congressional elections in November.
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BREAKING: The White House is preparing talking points designed to undermine Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's credibility, according to sources familiar with the plan https://t.co/sxC06btx5Z pic.twitter.com/1gkcca2g9A
— CNN (@CNN) April 12, 2018
The staff of the President of the United States is preparing a campaign to undermine the deputy attorney general, whom he nominated. https://t.co/jCcE9Ry91c
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) April 12, 2018
The White House is preparing talking points designed to undermine Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's credibility, sources say https://t.co/oNG0zKoPBX pic.twitter.com/wa5wdUKI82
— CNN (@CNN) April 12, 2018
“It would almost certainly derail policy efforts as Trump works to enact his agenda ahead of congressional elections in November.”
Works? As far as I can tell, Trump isn’t working much at all — unless one considers creating perpetual crises and controversy “work.”
Trump has been trying to obstruct the investigation since the beginning and this is another effort to do so. Unfortunately, there is no one with the balls to put Trump in his place.
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