WaPo Confirms Trump Plan To Use Memo To Fire Deputy Attorney General
New report confirms that “before he had even read it” Trump planned to use memo to fire Rosenstein.
If there’s a conspiracy case against President Trump, then so-called “Nunes memo” will feature heavily it in. According to a new report, before even reading the memo, Trump hatched a plan to use the memo to undermine the Mueller investigation and attempt to fire the Deputy Attorney General.
The revelation came in a report by The Washington Post on Thursday night which detailed that Trump first became aware of the memo on January 18 and that “before he had even read it” he intended to release it.
And despite heavy lobbying from inside his own Department of Justice and the FBI, Trump never had any hesitation about releasing the memo.
Trump has told aides over the last few weeks that he believes “the release of the memo would help build a public argument against Rosenstein’s handling of the case,” according to the report.
“Trump suggested to aides and confidants that the memo might give him the justification to fire Rosenstein — something about which Trump has privately mused — or make other changes at the Justice Department, which he had complained was not sufficiently loyal to him,” The Washington Post report went on to say.
There you have it. Proof that President Trump, before even reading the memo, hatched a plan to fire the Deputy Attorney General, who oversees the Mueller investigation.
Read the full report by The Washington Post here.
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