Michael Schmidt Pushes Back on Claim Rosenstein Was Joking: That’s Not What Our Reporting Showed

‘It showed that in the meeting Rosenstein had been asked whether he was joking, he said he was not’

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SCHMIDT: "That’s not what the depth and breadth of our reporting showed. It showed that in the meeting, Rosenstein had been asked whether he was joking, he said he was not, and then raised a new prospect of wiring up FBI agents who were going into the Oval Office to meet with the President about being the next director. Also no push back from the Justice Department on whether the comment about the 25th Amendment was sarcastic. And what sort of gets lost in all of the noise around this story is the simple fact that in May of 2017, less than four months into Donald Trump’s time in office, senior officials at the top of the Justice Department were talking about the 25th Amendment as a way of removing him from office."

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