Rosenstein proposed secretly recording Trump and invoking the 25th Amendment!

NEW YORK (PNN) - September 22, 2018 - If this latest revelation from The New York Times doesn't drive Fascist Police States of Amerika President Donald Trump to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein or convince Congress to impeach him, then we can't imagine what would.

In a shocking report citing a bevy of anonymous Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice division officials, the NYT recounted on Friday an aborted mutiny attempt organized by Rosenstein, who allegedly tried to organize members of Trump's Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to oust Trump from office. In an attempt to persuade the clearly reluctant members of Trump's Cabinet, Rosenstein suggested that he or other officials should secretly tape Trump "to expose the chaos" he said was engulfing the West Wing. According to NYT, the sources were either briefed on Rosenstein's plans, or learned about it from the files of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired after being disgraced by an inspector general investigation. ABC News, which also reported the story, cited sources familiar with McCabe's files. A grand jury is also weighing whether to press charges against McCabe for misleading the inspector general.

According to the NYT, this all happened during the spring of 2017, shortly after Trump cited a letter that Rosenstein had penned criticizing former FBI Director James Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton probe as justification to fire Comey. Rosenstein reportedly felt he had been used by the president as an excuse to fire Comey. Rosenstein soon began telling colleagues that he would ultimately be vindicated for his role in Comey's firing. Around the same time, he began to express his displeasure with Trump's handling of the hiring process for Comey's replacement.

Rosenstein also tried to recruit some of his would-be co-conspirators to surreptitiously record Trump in the Oval Office.

However, although Rosenstein "appeared conflicted, regretful and emotional" during what can only be described as a coup attempt against a sitting president, even the newspaper admits that his conduct in attempting to solicit the illicit wiretapping of a sitting president was extremely reckless and unwarranted, and that, if uncovered, it could be used as grounds to fire Rosenstein.

The Times and ABC reported that Rosenstein told McCabe that he believed Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly would go along with the plan. Another source said they believed Rosenstein was being sarcastic when he  made the comment about recording Trump.

Rosenstein has decried the story as "factually incorrect" and said that "based on my personal dealings" with the president, there isn't any basis to invoke the 25th Amendment. This, of course, is tantamount to a Deep State insider admitting that there is no factual basis to impeach Trump.

A lawyer representing McCabe told CNN and the Times that his client had documented his conversations with Rosenstein in a series of memos, which he later turned over to Robert Mueller more than a year ago. However, a set of those memos was left at the FBI when McCabe departed.

The Washington Post reported that FBI lawyer Lisa Page (the former lover of disgraced FBI special agent Peter Strzok) was also at the meeting where wiretapping was discussed. WaPo also said that McCabe had pushed for the DOJ to open an investigation into the president, to which Rosenstein replied, "What do you want to do Andy, wire the president?"

While Rosenstein and Trump clearly never saw eye to eye, the level of resentment that Rosenstein harbored toward the president was not previously known. Unsurprisingly, the story has already fired up speculation  that Rosenstein may have been the anonymous regime official who penned a critical op-ed that was published earlier this month in The New York Times. Underscoring the seriousness of these allegations, CNN reported that the McCabe memos that were described to ABC and the Times have been turned over to Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Rosenstein has been working as a public servant since clerking for a federal judge after graduating from Harvard Law School, according to the Times, which also notes that Rosenstein also considered appointing James Cole, a former Deputy AG, as special counsel. Cole was a lawyer and longtime confidant for close Clinton associate Sydney Blumenthal.

The story is bound to revive suspicions about the FBI's role in trying to stifle the Trump presidency, and further erode the bureau's already damaged credibility. As Arthur Schwartz put it, enough is enough.