Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested secretly recording President Trump “to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office for being unfit,” the New York Times reports.
Rosenstein “made these suggestions in the spring of 2017 when Trump’s firing of James Comey as FBI Director plunged the White House into turmoil. Over the ensuing days, the president divulged classified intelligence to Russians in the Oval Office, and revelations emerged that Trump had asked Comey to pledge loyalty and end an investigation into a senior aide.”
“The extreme suggestions show Rosenstein’s state of mind in the disorienting days that followed Comey’s dismissal.”
ABC News and the Washington Post report that the details of Rosenstein’s discussions are included in the memos of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
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