President Trump reschedule meeting with Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and President Donald Trump have rescheduled a meeting meant for Monday to Thursday of this week, according to the White House.
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted a statement that read:
Rosenstein was summoned to the White House Monday morning and was reportedly expecting to be fired. A Justice Department official told the New York Times the Solicitor General, Noel Francisco, will take oversight of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Mueller’s office has declined to comment on the reports.
Any termination or resignation would have immediate implications for Mueller’s investigation of possible collaboration between Russia and the Trump campaign before the 2016 election. Rosenstein appointed Mueller and oversees his investigation.
The Times reported last week Rosenstein discussed secretly recording the president and invoking the 25th amendment to remove Trump from office. Rosenstein has previously slammed the Times story as “inaccurate and factually incorrect.”
Trump had previously floated the idea firing Rosenstein in April after FBI raids of the office and home of the president’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, who has since pleaded guilty to several felonies and taken part in hours of interviews with Mueller.