Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday morning that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein “recommended” the firing of FBI director James Comey.

Sure enough, Rosenstein’s letter laid out all the ways the FBI director had acted inappropriately, and at times implied that firing Comey would be best. But here’s a point that seems to be getting lost: Rosenstein never explicitly recommended firing Comey.

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