What Was Rosenstein Thinking During Barr’s Speech?

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Agreed, he looked creepy.

Perhaps he was thinking:

Get

Me

OUTTA

HERE!

He’s the one who justified firing Comey to cover for Trump.

And then Trump threw him under the bus by admitting on international TV he fired Comey because of the “Rusher” thing.

He’s a tool & will go down in history as such.

He’s just another republican, like John Kelly, pretending he’s shocked but really isn’t. He’s trying to play to both sides with his visage while firmly staying with the GOP

He knows.

I can't imagine his internal torment.

This is going to turn in to Watergate x10.

He’s the current example of one of the OJ lawyers.

[quote]I can't imagine his internal torment.

I, too, find it impossible to contemplate the vast emptiness and nothingness that constitutes the sum total of someone like that's internal torment.

Considering Nine of these people would recognize a conscience if it rose up and bit them in the ads, my guess is "shit! Did I leave the oven on??"

...and he coulda been a contender!...

I always feel bad for the people behind, when some big shot is speaking to the press and they make their subordinates stand behind them. I am sure they stand there thinking, have no reaction that anyone can read things into and what ever you do don't sneeze, OMG now I have to sneeze, don't sneeze.

Rosenstein supports Barr 100% or else he wouldn’t be there. If Rosenstein disagreed with Barr, he’d have resigned and gone out on a high note.

But he hasn’t

Obviously I meant 'none' of these people. (there's Way more than nine..

R5, as much as I wish you were right..how? That is, EVERYTHING this AHole has done, he has done without repurcussion and with impunity.

At this point, Trump got away. Again.

Like Melania Trump, Rosenstein is being given the benefit of the doubt long after he’s shown he doesn’t deserve it.

He's Littlefinger. He supports anyone that will allow him access to the room and when that person is killed off, he'll swiftly denounce him and make friends with the executioner. Unlike Littlefinger, he'll survive. I'm sure he hopes to run the DoJ one day.

If r5 is referring to what I think he is, he's absolutely right. Hold on for the ride homeys!

You know nothing, R16

He was a POW tape while in captivity.

What do you think it is, R16?

He doesn't want to be McCabed!

For all of you that think this IS WATERGATE II--------all of that has been done before by MSNBC. No, nothing is going to happen to the creep in the WH, most unfortunately.

All of the hyperbolics will surely be continued by MSNBC too. But I watch no more. Teflon Don, as toxic as he is wins again.

All of this is so unfair. Will we ever see truth or justice again. I simply can't watch any of this anymore.

"Oh fuck, i'm now in the history books...w/ this lard ass".

Ummm, I don't think that's what's going to happen. Problem is it's not going to happen quickly. The House is going to have Mueller testify and the report is going to be exposed more and more. This is going to happen soon. Also, 12 of the 14 cases the report spawned (and are redacted) in the Mueller report) are ongoing. This is not close to over. Trump may get through to the end of his Presidency, but he will be in court and maybe even jail thereafter. The fraud and illegal activity outlined in the case against his "Foundation" alone can do him in. And it currently does not even make mention in the news. This one involves his children as well.

R24, nothing will happen.Take that to the bank.It is over. Believe me.

Hope for a 2020 loss.

R21, huh you better tell Adam Schiff and the intel committee that. They have just requested the company of Mueller for the dance. First comes the ask, then come the subpoenas.

R26, congress planned to investigate this, no matter what was in the report.

Nothing will come of this. Again.

Congress will look aim at obstruction, but it will not stick. BECAUSE...WAIT FOR IT....

REPUBLICANS HAVE THE MAJORITY AND THEY WILL NOT VOTE TO IMPEACH.

" Rod, Rod, Bo Bod,

Banana Fanna Foe Fod,

Fi, Fie, Mo Mod,

Rod."

" A little trick with Nick......."

The douchbag Senator Richard Burr gave the White House lawyers info on the FBI Russian Investigation he gleaned from the testimony of Comey.

R13, what did he get away with? You can’t mean collusion with Russia?! Yikes.

R16, do you mean Obama spying on Trump?

That’s literally exactly like Watergate: a POTUS spying on the opposite party. Wonder what will come of this.....

He looked horrified, like a man who sold his soul to the devil. He was probably thinking about what a failure of a man, patriot and Jewish American he is. OTOH It's easy to imagine that Putin has kompromat on all of them, that they were given offers they couldn't refuse. That's what he looked like to me.

It’s obvious from space that Barr mis-characterized (lied) the Mueller Report.

Rod is standing behind someone who has zero credibility. He should be deeply ashamed to go down in history with these thugs.

"Oh, for a nice MLT, mutton, lettuce, and tomato, where the mutton is nice and lean...."

Rosenstein probably decided to side with Trump in order to keep Jared in charge if the Middle East. Trump delivered Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and is about to deliver the West Bank.

Reminds me of the moment Woody Allen sits behind Hitler during a speech and begins to wave to Mia in the crowd.

He was resisting the urge to blink in Morse code to the press. T-O-R-T-U-R-E

" I left the shtetl for this?"

Let’s face it — almost NO Republican politicians have broken with Trump ....it’s mostly republican advisers who have broken with him. Look at Stephen Schmidt, a real Varys. He was all “i‘m not a republican anymore” and then he joined Howard Schultz campaign. Schultz is nothing but an egomaniacal jerk who wants to derail whoever the dem candidate will be. Mitt Romney & Megan McCain insult Trump but back his policies 100%, defend Trump, and call democrats filthy, disgusting, stupid socialist commutes who want to destroy America.

We were fools to think Mueller and Rosenstein were any different.

uh huh....

R40, This is a war we are fighting. It isn't going to be won through a report. This is one part of the world wide rise of fascism. We stand and fight because the alternative is their boots on our necks. Institutional men, like mueller and Rosenstein, believe in the institution. We have learned that. We continue fighting with this new information.

Rod Rosenstein was thinking what a fucking weasel he is and always will be ;Rod the weasel. He was also thinking about how he’s so nervous he wants to put his hands in his armpits and then sniff his fingers and how soon can he get home and do so, what a creep,

The Southern District of New York has yet to weigh in.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. Maybe more so the princelings and the son-in-law.

It's only just begun.

Rosenstein wrote the memo to fire Comey, but when Trump endlessly referred to Rosenstein‘s justification, which Trump ordered written but which Trump never acknowledged, Rosenstein got pissed and was ready to resign over it. He got played and it offended him.

Yeah, well he's not that smart then, is he?

He just got played again. And while he's leaving, he's still there.

Rosenstein is also the one who wrote the very narrow limits to Mueller’s investigation and who conducted the fake fbi investigation into Kavanaugh.

Yet, he persists, R45.

I think he will resign within weeks. He wants out as quickly as possible. Just another rat.

He previously said he was staying on until the Mueller report was complete, so I expect he’ll announce his departure any day now. The question is, once he’s a private citizen, how soon will he be subpoenaed by the House committees?

Rosenstein’s reputation as a sniveling, weasel of a coward is cemented...ugh

R32 to some extent, but it's more the lines crossed by certain government officials, particularly in the form of approving and signing off on various activities with no legitimate or legal reason to do so. As a government employee with some level of clearance, I am well aware of what can and cannot be done. And everything has a paper trail and numerous participants. No man is an island in the government, ever

I'm no Trumper, but have been interested in this from the beginning due to the fact that it appears to have started long before he was ever a viable candidate, which according to popular opinion he never was anyway.

Which makes you wonder why all this was done in the first place. Why him and not Jeb! Or Mario? Why Trump? No one ever thought Hills would lose, let alone to him

He looked like the typical shell-shocked wife standing up beside her man as he admits to diddling boys on the side. You know, that resolute "we've been through a lot, and we'll get through this too" stare devoid of reality.

Just pretend you're Mike Pence. Just pretend you're Mike Pence...

Rosenstein is your basic pencil-dicked nerdy Jew.

Were you expecting some heroics?

[quote]Trump may get through to the end of his Presidency, but he will be in court and maybe even jail thereafter.

He absolutely will not. No one in either the political or judicial arena wants a sitting president (or former sitting president) on trial or in jail, and it will not happen.

People have to stop believing that a president will go to jail. They will not. Never.

Are you really unaware of the numerous crimes and atrocities previous presidents committed, whichlead to exactly zero of them going to jail? It doesn't happen.

" I wonder if Barr's uncut."

Stockholm syndrome

Rosenstein is probably thinking, Oh Man, am I ever set in retirement, my forth coming book will net me millions and with Trump's tax cut I get to keep almost all of it. He is a Republican after all.

Rod is kind of weasel himself.

Just a prop....just a prop...just a prop...just a prop...just a prop...just a prop...just a prop...just a prop...just a prop...just a prop...just a prop...

"I hope they don't call me Deep Throat 2."

And, R28, you stupid fucking troll, you need a new American government textbook translated into Russian for you because that's not how impeachment works.

McCabe, I believe, said "Rod is a survivor." And that always stuck with me.

He saw what happened to McCabe - fired one day before he could receive his pension - and he isn't going to let that happen to him. And round Billy knows it.

Rod will do what he has to in order to survive. No matter what the personal cost.

But, R64, he already announced he's leaving. After that, I'm hoping he stands up.

Rosenstein knows he will be greatly rewarded by the GOP. He’ll go into the private sector and make big bucks with multi-gigs. Sit on the board of a couple of think tanks, be named a consultant to “global security firms,” be listed as a consulting partner in law firms, be legal consult to Wall Street financial firms. He’s going to reap beaucoup buckeroos and living through the media circus since 2017 will be worth it.

Firing Comey - worth it.

Backing Barr - worth it.

Rosenstein knows what Mueller found and he’s right up there next to Barr. He’s not hiding, he’s not quitting. Barr asked him to stay in for a bit and he agreed to do it.

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In distress…

"I wish I could grow a lumbersexual beard."

The whole sordid episode looks like it was staged by the Clown.

"I will betray the whole country to keep my pension."

Certainly will be interesting (and hopefully painful -- for them) when those history books are written. I can't wait to see how the Giuliani/ NYC FBI office are written about.

That's a "Fuck my life." face.

Rod is part of the conspiracy and should be prosecuted one day.

[quote]Certainly will be interesting (and hopefully painful -- for them) when those history books are written. I can't wait to see how the Giuliani/ NYC FBI office are written about.

We live in a society now that is so fast moving and so in the moment that I just don't think they care at all what history will say about them.

Really, why were he and the bearded dude even there? Didn't he announce he was leaving about five times now?

R75 In case fat lady... I mean liar Barr needed backup singers?

Rosenstein was standing there because people waiting for their retirement will eat any shit you send their way.

R76 By backup singers.. I meant backup liars.

Do we know if Rosenstein actually needs extra time to collect his pension? I'm sure he's vested by now. And, honestly, does he really need the money? He's earned in the past and he'll earn plenty in the future. Is a pension from this job alone enough? I'm still holding out hope that he's sticking around so he can turn into our generation's deep throat.

It's not the Department of Justice... It's the Department of Corruption.

It's government work. They are all thinking about their pensions. That's what they do in government work.

Except maybe for Barrf. God knows why he campaigned for this job.

R81 Barr loves corruption. Duh! He's a pig rolling in mud right now!

“What should I wear for Passover?”

So, how long does Rosenstein have until his pension kicks in? He was supposed to leave last year. Then it was changed to earlier this year. Then it was March. Then it was when the Mueller Report came out. If he keeps saying he's going to leave, I assume he's already vested for his government pension. There's another reason he's sticking around. So, he's either also corrupt or he's an insider working for our side.

Rod is thinking about the tell-all book he could write once this thing blows sky high.

I wish AOC would ask Mueller or Michael Cohen if there is any dirt on anyone in Congress relating to Russia. The the camera keep a split screen focus especially on Devin Nunes as she asks this question.

They could hire McCabe back for a day's work if Dems win next year and get him his pension.

That would be fitting, r87.

Although he might just say "fuck it!"

"Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far far away"

Rod Rosenstein waits in line for his daughter to meet Kellyanne Conway.

That’s who Rod Rosenstein is.

[quote]They could hire McCabe back for a day's work if Dems win next year and get him his pension.

Maybe the Democrats should hire Mueller back so he can finish his investigation. McCabe can help him in order to earn his pension.