{"id":116780,"date":"2019-02-18T07:10:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T11:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=116780"},"modified":"2019-02-18T07:10:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T11:10:03","slug":"who-were-the-2-traitors-in-trumps-cabinet-who-supported-the-fbi-dij-coup-are-they-still-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=116780","title":{"rendered":"Who were the 2 traitors in Trump’s Cabinet who supported the FBI-DIJ coup? Are they still there?<\/i><\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Trump Cabinet Officials Were “Ready To Support” 25th Amendment ‘Coup’ As Rosenstein Tallied Votes<\/h1>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

Two Trump Cabinet officials were\u00a0“ready to support” a DOJ scheme to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump<\/strong>, according to\u00a0Bloomberg\u00a0<\/em><\/u><\/a>and\u00a0Fox News<\/em><\/a>, citing closed-door testimony from the FBI’s former top lawyer, James Baker – who said that the claim came from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.<\/p>\n

The testimony was delivered last fall to the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees. Fox News has confirmed portions of the transcript. It provides additional insight into discussions that have returned to the spotlight in Washington as fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe revisits the matter during interviews promoting his forthcoming book. –Fox News<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Baker did not identify the two Cabinet officials, he says that McCabe and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page approached him to relay their conversations with Rosenstein, including their discussions of the 25th Amendment scheme.<\/p>\n

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“I was being told by some combination of Andy McCabe and Lisa Page, that, in\u00a0a conversation with the Deputy Attorney General, he had stated that he — this was what was related to me —\u00a0that he had at least two members of the president\u2019s Cabinet who were ready to support, I guess you would call it, an action under the 25th Amendment,” Baker told the Congressional committees.<\/p>\n

The 25th Amendment allows for the removal of a sitting president from office through various mechanisms – including the majority of a president’s Cabinet agreeing that the commander-in-chief is incapable of performing his duties.<\/p>\n

Rosenstein – who is slated to leave the Justice Department in the near future, has denied the claims.<\/p>\n

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Former FBI General Counsel James A. Baker<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Baker said McCabe was cool, calm and collected throughout the discussions, telling lawmakers: “At this point in time, Andy was unbelievably focused and unbelievably confident and squared away.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how to describe it other than I was extremely proud to be around him at that point in time because I thought he was doing an excellent job at maintaining focus and dealing with a very uncertain and difficult situation.\u00a0 So I think he was in a good state of mind at this point in time.”<\/p>\n

McCabe, meanwhile\u00a0told “60 Minutes”<\/a>\u00a0in an interview set to air Sunday night that Rosenstein was concerned about Trump’s “capacity.”<\/p>\n

According to McCabe, Rosenstein “raised the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort,” adding that Rosenstein was “definitely very concerned about the president, about his capacity and about his intent at that point in time.”<\/p>\n

“Rosenstein was actually openly talking about whether there was a majority of the cabinet who would vote to remove the president?” asks\u00a0CBS News<\/em>\u00a0anchor Scott Pelly, to which McCabe replied: “That\u2019s correct. Counting votes or possible votes.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The New York Times\u00a0first reported<\/a>\u00a0last year that McCabe alleged in memos that Rosenstein had talked about using the 25th Amendment to oust Trump \u2014 or wearing a wire to surreptitiously monitor the president \u2014 in the hectic days in May 2017 after Trump fired James B. Comey as FBI director.\u00a0At the time, Rosenstein disputed the reporting. –WaPo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called the 25th Amendment scheme a “bureaucratic coup<\/strong><\/a>” led by enemies of President Trump. On Sunday morning, Graham said he would subpoena McCabe and Rosenstein “if that’s what it takes” to get to the bottom of the 25th Amendment claim.<\/p>\n

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.@LindseyGrahamSC<\/a> says he\u2019ll subpoena Fmr. Acting FBI Dir. McCabe & DAG Rod Rosenstein if \u201cthat\u2019s what it takes\u201d to get them to testify regarding McCabe\u2019s claim that Rosenstein brought up the 25th amendment. pic.twitter.com\/r31XbVCPps<\/a><\/p>\n

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) February 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n