Rod Rosenstein

Awhile back, I began to be more than a bit suspicious of Rod Rosenstein.  This has not changed, by the way.  But it may be helpful to dig a bit, in order to understand this guy a bit better.

What made me start this process was when I read in some comments that Rosenstein was fired by Sessions.  As for Sessions, he appears to be a weak link because he recused himself from the Russian collusion investigation.  Trump said he would not have appointed Sessions if he knew he was going to do that.

But then Trump refuses to accept the resignation of Rosenstein, when Sessions "fired" Rosenstein.  So, Trump seems to undermine Sessions.  What does one make of this?

Let's back up a bit and review Rosenstein a little more.  He was originally appointed US Attorney by President George W. Bush.  Thus, Obama kept him on.  Actually, Bush tried to appoint him to a judgeship, but the Democrats blocked it.

This is all very odd.  On the one hand, Rosenstein is a Republican.  On the other, he is actually acting like a Democrat.  Makes no sense.  Not to mention, Obama keeps him on as US Attorney.

He seems to have broad support, then.  His nomination as Deputy Attorney General was approved by a wide margin, which includes almost all Democrats.  Trump nominated him, presumably based upon recommendation by Priebus.

How then does this help in understanding Rosenstein?  The guy might be one of those in the mold of trying to appear like a perfect and blameless person.  Hence, you can see him approving the raid of Cohen, Trump's lawyer.  The raid was said to have been referred by Mueller, so Mueller isn't in charge of it.  Seems correct and straight down the line, but...

What about Mueller himself?  Mueller had this reputation of integrity.  So did Comey.  But something doesn't look right about all this, just the same.

As for Trump, he is attempting to do the impossible.  He ran against the GOP, but he also got the nomination.  As a president from the party that despises him, he is running in a lot of resistance from people who you would think should be supporting him.  But they are not...

The business about Stormy Daniels fits into that.  A lot of the same people pointing the finger about this would do nothing about Bill Clinton.  Actually, this is continuing to this very day, as there are allegations of sexual improprieties involving both Clintons that was part of the emails that were turned in by Anthony Weiner's attorney.

This suggests a political motive is behind what is purportedly a criminal investigation that started out as an intelligence investigation.

Again, Trump is surrounded by enemies.  But they cannot get rid of him for overtly political reasons without just cause.  That is what they are looking for, and it appears for the moment that they are not succeeding.

But they still could.