Opinion: Rod Rosenstein is leaving as a diminished man and shamed lawyer
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein in Washington on Oct. 11, 2018. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 30 at 10:30 AM The Post reports on Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein’s resignation letter submitted Monday, effective May 11:
While it is difficult to interpret Rosenstein’s remarks, he was apparently trying to mollify Trump and save his own job, or at least his reputation. However, informed legal observers had their suspicions about him from the start. How did he get roped into writing a memo that served as the phony excuse for firing then-FBI Director James B. Comey? Why didn’t he recuse himself once it became apparent he was witness to a key event in possible obstruction-of-justice case?
And finally came the blockbuster story of his groveling for his job, fearing he’d be fired by tweet. Here he crossed every ethical line. Compare his negotiating with the subject of an investigation to keep his job with Comey’s refusal to give Trump a pledge of loyalty.
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