Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that any administration official who does not support President Trump’s agenda to step down from their position, responding to a New York Times report that said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein considered trying to oust Trump last year after he fired FBI Director James Comey.
Rosenstein has denied he considered rallying members of Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and offered to wear a wire to record his conversations with Trump. Follow-up reports said the secret taping remark was made in jest.
Pompeo did not mention Rosenstein by name, but told “Fox News Sunday” that any official not supporting Trump should resign.
“If you are not supporting this mission, then maybe you just ought to find something else to do,” he said. “We need everyone who’s engaged in helping achieve president Trump’s mission and I hope that everyone in every agency — DOJ, FBI, State Department — is on that mission. If you’re not, you should take this time to go do something more productive.”
At a rally in Missouri on Friday, Trump spoke about getting rid of the “lingering stench” at the Justice Department and FBI, though he did not specifically mention Rosenstein.
