President Trump was surely a bit surprised to hear a piece in the New York Times this past week suggesting that the Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the Mueller investigation into something or other, had made an odd statement last year.
Apparently, Rosenstein was reported as having suggested that he wear a wire (this was apparently not long after inauguration) in conversation with the president and try to catch something that could lead to the Cabinet declaring him to be unfit for office under the 25th Amendment. This was a big deal to the Times as some type of palace intrigue.
Of course, as you apply the sanity test to all this, and start to hear from people close enough to Rosenstein to understand how he talks, the actual nature of the incident, if it indeed happened, comes out a lot different.
Rosenstein is known, or reputed, to be a fairly sarcastic person when he hears a suggestion he finds to be stupid. Given that among the people in the room at the time was reported to be Andrew McCabe, the Trump-hating senior executive in the FBI, a totally different spin seems to be playing out.
If Rosenstein actually did utter those words, with McCabe in the room, a more reliable accounting of the incident would have been that McCabe himself, whose wife had just lost an election as a Democrat and Trump opponent, had made some suggestion about getting dirt on the president. Rosenstein would have then replied with something like, "Sure, Andy, how about I just wear a wire and bug the President of the United States and then give it to Jeff Sessions to start a 25th Amendment case? That what you want, moron?" And then forgotten he ever said it.
Since the whole incident is only coming out now, a year and a half later, it obviously didn't lead to anything because, if it was said at all, it was a sarcastic rejection of something McCabe said. That it is coming out now makes sense when you step back.
The left wants Trump out. Any way, any means. He threatens their Deep State power, the choke-hold they have on Washington. What way would be better than to bait the president into taking an action that looks like the "obstruction of justice" that they see as an avenue to impeachment, since the russiarussiarussia probe seems to have reached a dead end a year ago?
So it is incumbent on President Trump simply to let this incident go. Word is that he actually has a very cordial relationship with Rosenstein. That being so, it is incumbent on Rosenstein to go see the president immediately and clarify what that was all about, even to the extent of throwing the already treadmarked McCabe under the bus.
And it is incumbent on the president simply to let it go, and not do anything with or to Rosenstein. He is being baited by the left, and he's certainly smart enough -- as are his closest advisors -- to see this release of a non-story for what it is. It is no more than an attempt by President Trump's political opponents to get something that sounds like an impeachable offense in the event of the (unlikely) assumption of a majority in the House.
This, of course, is precisely why Americans need to go out to the polls on Election Day and keep the Democrats as far from the power that they abuse immorally, as possible.
Do nothing, Mr. President. Grit your teeth and let it go.
Copyright 2018 by Robert Sutton
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