{"id":116834,"date":"2019-02-18T10:28:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T14:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=116834"},"modified":"2019-02-18T14:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:36:18","slug":"coup-in-progress-how-the-fk-is-rosenstein-still-2-at-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=116834","title":{"rendered":"<b>COUP-IN-PROGRESS:<\/b> How the <b>heck<\/b> is Rosenstein still #2 at DOJ?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump Slams McCabe &amp; Rosenstein Over &#8220;Treasonous&#8221;, &#8220;Very Illegal&#8221; Plan To Secretly Record President<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>During\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-02-14\/mccabe-tells-cbs-he-rushed-open-russia-probe-fear-being-fired\">an interview<\/a>\u00a0that aired in full on CBS last night, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe &#8211; who was famously fired just hours before qualifying for his pension due to what the DOJ inspector general described as &#8220;unauthorized leaks to the press&#8221; &#8211; McCabe insisted that Rod Rosenstein was &#8220;absolutely serious&#8221; when he asked senior Trump administration officials to clandestinely record their conversations with the president in preparation for removing him under the 25th amendment &#8211; a plan that has been derided as an attempted coup by family members and allies of the president.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-02-18%20at%208.01.01%20AM.png?itok=7-7FhKIo\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-02-18%20at%208.01.01%20AM.png?itok=7-7FhKIo\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-02-18%20at%208.01.01%20AM.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-02-18%20at%208.01.01%20AM.png?itok=7-7FhKIo 1x\" alt=\"McCabe\" width=\"500\" height=\"258\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"d50658b1-e0d1-4e30-b226-24140d309ff2\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clearly displeased with McCabe&#8217;s revelations, Trump lashed out at again on Twitter, accusing him of telling a &#8220;deranged&#8221; story and plotting &#8220;a very illegal act&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow, so many lies by now disgraced acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe. He was fired for lying, and now his story gets even more deranged. He and Rod Rosenstein, who was hired by Jeff Sessions (another beauty), look like they were planning a very illegal act, and got caught&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1097469642048716801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump added that McCabe has &#8220;a lot of explaining to do to the millions of people who had just elected a president who they really like&#8221;. He added that this was &#8220;the illegal and treasonous&#8221; insurance policy &#8220;in action&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.There is a lot of explaining to do to the millions of people who had just elected a president who they really like and who has done a great job for them with the Military, Vets, Economy and so much more. This was the illegal and treasonous \u201cinsurance policy\u201d in full action!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1097473080253968384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Before doubling down on accusations that McCabe and Rosenstein participated in an &#8220;illegal coup attempt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis was an illegal coup attempt on the President of the United States.\u201d Dan Bongino on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@foxandfriends<\/a>  True!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1097488256848007173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-02-18\/trump-slams-mccabe-rosenstein-over-treasonous-very-illegal-plan-secretly-record\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-02-18\/trump-slams-mccabe-rosenstein-over-treasonous-very-illegal-plan-secretly-record<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Slams McCabe &amp; Rosenstein Over &#8220;Treasonous&#8221;, &#8220;Very Illegal&#8221; Plan To Secretly Record President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}