After a close reading of a memorandum, the Washington Examiner reported last week that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein never explicitly recommended that President Trump fire FBI Director James Comey.

And on Friday, Rosenstein confirmed what the Washington Examiner reported ten days earlier. “My memorandum is not a statement of reasons to justify a for-cause termination,” according to his prepared remarks to House and Senate lawmakers.

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