Rosenstein caved to all Bozo's utter bullshit about the FBI spying on his campaign, massively bullhorned by the right wing echo-chamber.
President Donald Trump has branded his latest attempt to discredit the special counsel's Russia investigation as "spygate," part of a newly invigorated strategy embraced by his Republican colleagues to raise suspicions about the probe that has dogged his presidency since the start.
Trump now is zeroing in on — and at times embellishing — reports that a longtime U.S. government informant approached members of his 2016 campaign during the presidential election in a possible bid to glean intelligence on Russian efforts to sway the election.
He tweeted Wednesday morning that the FBI has been caught in a "major SPY scandal."
Trump's dense cloud of bullshit portrays as a "major spy scandal" the FBI doing its job.
He has been peddling this lie for over a year.
He committed to naked and direct interference on Monday, when he dragged the FBI director and Rosenstein into the woodshed to pressure the hell out of them to give his most rabid Congressional supporters the access to highly classified and sensitive information about investigation of Russian interference in the election of 2016 they have been demanding in a private meeting between them and his GOP supporters.
And then all this was made public by the White House.
The Democrats first protested this violation of long-time and normal procedure and then insisted if it was to happen at all it had to be bipartisan.
President Trump’s unprecedented meeting on Monday with the FBI director and deputy attorney general regarding a case in which he is directly involved may turn out to be the defining moment of his presidency and for his party.
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Naturally, Democrats protested vehemently.
On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sent a forceful letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray declaring that the meeting “is completely improper in its proposed form and would set a damaging precedent for your institutions and the rule of law.”
They warned, “We can think of no legitimate oversight justification for the ex parte dissemination – at the direction of the president – of investigative information to the president’s staunchest defenders in Congress and, ultimately, to the president’s legal defense team.”
However, they wrote, if Rosenstein and Wray think the meeting is necessary to prevent things from “devolving into an outright constitutional crisis,” then the only proper body to receive information was the so-called Gang of Eight (the majority and minority leaders of both houses and the chairmen and ranking members of the House Intelligence Committee).
Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also called on Rosenstein to revisit his decision “to release highly sensitive, highly classified information to members of Congress who have indicated that they intend to use it to undermine an ongoing investigation and federal law enforcement.”
They urged him to “cancel any plan to release this information until its disclosure will avoid putting the Special Counsel’s work at risk.”
The meeting itself was demanded by Bozo's most mendacious supporters in Congress, led by Sam Nunez.
It is now said that Trump's chief of staff will be there, too.
The Gang of Eight meeting is to occur today.
Of course, the GOP insisted they alone have a pre-meeting from which the Dems would be excluded, but Adam Schiff showed up and demanded, and was given, admission.
This is leading Trumpists and Bozo himself openly interfering with - obstructing - an ongoing FBI investigation.
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