For some reason, Rod Rosenstein is still deputy attorney general

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The man who allegedly conspired with the likes of James Comey and Andrew McCabe to overthrow a sitting president is still garnering approximately $20,000 a month in taxpayer-funded salary, along with all the government benefits that come with it.

On Sept. 24, 2018, Axios reported that Rosenstein verbally offered to resign after The New York Times published a story claiming that he actively pushed the idea of secretly recording President Trump and conspiring to invoke the 25th Amendment, something Rosenstein himself has yet to deny.

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