Two weeks ago, Rod J. Rosenstein received the bipartisan confidence of the vast majority of the Senate during his confirmation as deputy attorney general. But a memo he drafted this week that has served as President Trump’s public justification for firing Comey has all but eviscerated that trust. Rosenstein has not responded publicly to the president’s shifting claims about his role in Comey’s firing. Rod J. Rosenstein during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill last month for deputy attorney general. She remains incredulous, she said, that he wrote it — and that it may have served as the basis for Comey’s firing.

Source: Washington Post May 11, 2017 23:53 UTC