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Trump Attacks Rosenstein in Latest Rebuke of Justice Department
WASHINGTON
— President Trump escalated his attacks on his own Justice Department
on Friday, using an early-morning Twitter rant to condemn the
department’s actions as “phony” and “sad!” and to challenge the
integrity of the official overseeing the expanding inquiry into Russian
influence of the 2016 election.
Acknowledging
for the first time publicly that he is under investigation, Mr. Trump
appeared to accuse Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, of
leading what the president called a “witch hunt.” Mr. Rosenstein
appointed a special counsel last month to conduct the investigation
after Mr. Trump fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey.
“I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director!” Mr. Trump wrote, apparently referring to a memo Mr. Rosenstein wrote in May that was critical of Mr. Comey’s leadership at the F.B.I.
“Witch hunt,” Mr. Trump added.
The
remarkable public rebuke is the latest example of a concerted effort by
Mr. Trump, the White House and its allies to undermine officials at the
Justice Department and the F.B.I. even as the Russia
The
nation’s law enforcement agency is under siege, short-staffed because
of delays in filling senior positions and increasingly at odds with a
president who had already engaged in a monthslong feud with the
government’s intelligence agencies.
Several current and former assistant United States attorneys
described a sense of listlessness and uncertainty, with some expressing
hesitation about pursuing new investigations, not knowing whether there
would be an appetite for them once leadership was installed in each
district after Mr. Trump fired dozens of United States attorneys who were Obama-era holdovers.
In the five weeks since Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey, he has let it be known that he has considered firing Robert S. Mueller III,
the special counsel leading the Russia investigation. His personal
lawyer bragged about firing Preet Bharara, the former United States
attorney for the Southern District of New York, who was let go as part
of the mass dismissal of top prosecutors. Newt Gingrich, an ally of the
president’s, accused Mr. Mueller of being the tip of the “deep-state
spear aimed at destroying” the Trump presidency.
Inside
the White House, those close to the president say he has continued to
fume about the actions of Justice Department officials, his anger
focused mostly on Mr. Rosenstein for appointing Mr. Mueller and on
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime political ally whose decision
to recuse himself from the Russia case in March enraged Mr. Trump.
What
the president wanted out of the investigation was simple, several
people close to him said: a public statement that he was not under a
cloud. What he got instead were reports of Mr. Mueller’s intention to
investigate him for possible obstruction of justice.
An
impatient New Yorker by nature, Mr. Trump has been unable in his first
months in office to bend Washington to his “you’re fired!” ways. He is
frustrated, friends say, and unsure what to do — apart from tweeting,
which he views as the most direct and effective way of defending himself
and venting his anger.
That
anger burst into public on Twitter late Thursday and continued Friday,
as the president repeatedly assailed the legal forces arrayed against
him. He accused the news media of pursuing a “phony” obstruction story
and accused law enforcement and congressional committees of conducting
“the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history.” He said
the investigations are led by “some very bad and conflicted” people.
By
Friday morning, his focus was on Mr. Rosenstein, though the president
never used his name, and his tweet oversimplified and misstated the
truth.
Mr.
Rosenstein is supervising the investigation, not conducting it. And Mr.
Trump has said he decided to fire Mr. Comey before he received Mr.
Rosenstein’s memo.
The
outburst came after an oddly worded statement late Thursday from Mr.
Rosenstein complaining about news reports based on leaks.
“Americans
should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed
to anonymous ‘officials,’ particularly when they do not identify the
country — let alone the branch or agency of government — with which the
alleged sources supposedly are affiliated,” Mr. Rosenstein wrote.
His
statement followed two articles by The Washington Post that cited
unnamed officials. One said Mr. Mueller’s investigation had widened to
include whether Mr. Trump committed obstruction of justice. The other said the investigation was examining financial transactions involving Jared Kushner,
the president’s adviser and son-in-law. After Mr. Rosenstein’s
statement, The Post updated the article about Mr. Kushner online so that
its first sourcing reference was to “U.S. officials.”
The
highly unusual statement raised the question of whether Mr. Trump or
some other White House official had asked Mr. Rosenstein to publicly
discredit the reports. Mr. Trump has repeatedly pushed top intelligence officials to exonerate him publicly.
A
Justice Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to
discuss internal matters, said that no one had asked Mr. Rosenstein to
make the statement and that he had acted on his own.
Still,
the statement, and Mr. Trump’s tweet, demonstrated the political
pressure on the deputy attorney general as the department pursues the
Russia probe.
Reaction
was swift. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the ranking Democrat
on the Judiciary Committee, said she was “growing increasingly
concerned” that Mr. Trump might attempt to fire both Mr. Mueller and Mr.
Rosenstein.
“If
the president thinks he can fire Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and
replace him with someone who will shut down the investigation, he’s in
for a rude awakening,” she said in a statement. “Even his staunchest
supporters will balk at such a blatant effort to subvert the law.”
People
close to the president say he is in a firing frame of mind but feels
blocked from carrying out such a move because of the potential political
damage.
While
he has left open the possibility of dismissing Mr. Mueller and began
considering it shortly after the special counsel was appointed last
month, the president’s anger has been largely trained on Mr. Sessions
and Mr. Rosenstein, whom he views less as executors of law than as
salaried staff.
At
a congressional hearing this week, Mr. Rosenstein issued a modest
declaration of independence, testifying that he was the only person who
had the ability to fire Mr. Mueller. And he made plain that his actions
would not be dictated by the president.
“I’m
not going to follow any order unless I believe they are lawful and
appropriate orders,” Mr. Rosenstein said. “It wouldn’t matter to me what
anybody said.”
Mr.
Trump has a different view of the chain of command, aides said, but he
also knows that he cannot afford to fire Mr. Rosenstein without
prompting a massive backlash on Capitol Hill, even among Republicans.
But the deputy attorney general, who would have to sign off on Mr.
Mueller’s firing, has become a favorite target for Mr. Trump in
conversations with advisers and friends.
The
apparent expansion of Mr. Mueller’s investigation into whether Mr.
Trump obstructed justice, including by firing Mr. Comey, has raised the
question of whether Mr. Rosenstein, a witness to and participant in the
events that culminated in that ouster, may also have to recuse himself
from overseeing the inquiry.
If
he were to do so, or resign or be fired by Mr. Trump, acting attorney
general duties for the inquiry would fall to the department’s No. 3
official, Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand.
Ms.
Brand has never served as a prosecutor. She advised the Justice
Department on selecting judicial nominees under President George W.
Bush, and she served as a Republican appointee on the Privacy and Civil
Liberties Oversight Board.
“As
the deputy attorney general has said numerous times, if there comes a
point when he needs to recuse, he will,” said Ian Prior, a Justice
Department spokesman. “However, nothing has changed.”
On
Friday morning, Mr. Rosenstein reacted in public with the calm of a
career prosecutor who had spent nearly three decades in government.
Within
an hour of Mr. Trump’s tweet, he addressed a crowd of several hundred
people in the Justice Department’s great hall, shaking the hands of 175
government employees, a majority of them assistant federal prosecutors
from around the country who had won awards for their work over the past
year, including drug and human trafficking prosecutions.
“The
pursuit of justice is never a 9-to-5 endeavor,” said Mr. Rosenstein. “I
will continue to work alongside all of you to make this department and
our country stronger and better.”
