Anonymous ID: 06eae4 Sept. 24, 2018, 7:48 a.m. No.3164267   🗄️.is 🔗kun

ROD ROSENSTEIN RESIGNING

 

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is resigning, according to Axios, which cited a source familiar with the matter.

 

"He's expecting to be fired," a source close to Rosenstein told Axios, the website reported Monday. He plans to step down, Axios reported.

 

Rosenstein's expected resignation will immediately raise questions about the fate of the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is probing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.

 

Rosenstein oversees the special counsel investigation, and has appointed Mueller to run the Russia probe last year, after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the case.

 

The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment on Axios' report. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to CNBC's inquiry.

 

Trump has repeatedly blasted Mueller's inquiry, which also is focused on possible collusion with Russia by members of the Trump campaign.

 

He has called the investigation a "witch hunt," and has repeatedly vented frustration about Sessions' recusal, which directly led to Mueller's appointment by Rosenstein.

 

Rosenstein's expected departure comes on the heels of a guilty plea by Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort to conspiracy charges related to his consulting work in Ukraine, which predates his role on the campaign.

 

https:// www.cnbc.com/2018/09/24/deputy-attorney-general-rod-rosenstein-is-reportedly-resigning.html

Anonymous ID: 06eae4 Sept. 24, 2018, 8:23 a.m. No.3164841   🗄️.is 🔗kun

That moment where we get to see all the scrubbed high school yearbooks of Ford, and she isnt in the yearbook. Dems will say she was absent from school on picture day