Rod Rosenstein fought to avoid firing by tweet

By Daniel Chaitin

Published April 27, 2019 12:53am ET

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Rod Rosenstein fought to avoid firing by tweet — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 28, 2018, on Justice Department and FBI actions around the 2016 presidential election. | (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein didn’t want to get fired by tweet.

Last fall the New York Times reported Rosenstein told Justice Department officials about wearing a “wire” to record conversations with President Trump and that he had discussed invoking the 25th Amendment against the president to remove him from office in the days after former FBI Director James Comey was fired in May 2017.

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