Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., warned President Trump Sunday it would be unwise for him to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein over Rosenstein’s involvement in the FBI raid of Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
“Does he have the power to get rid of Rod Rosenstein? Yes he does. Do I think it’s wise? I don’t,” Gowdy said during an interview with “Fox News Sunday.”
On possibility of President Trump firing Rod Rosenstein, @TGowdySC tells Chris: Does he have the power to get rid of Rod Rosenstein? Yes he does. Do I think it’s wise? I don’t. pic.twitter.com/9XiJ7u8xWC
— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) April 15, 2018
FBI agents raided Cohen’s home, office and a hotel room Monday, seizing documents relating to, among other things, Cohen’s $130,000 payment to former porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged extramarital affair with Trump in 2006.
The FBI action was reportedly approved by Rosenstein, who is also overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
“What we don’t know is what the basis of the probable cause was, what was searched and what was seized,” Gowdy added Sunday. “I think the most important thing we know is that a neutral detached federal judge, who has nothing to do with politics, signed off on this warrant.”
