Rosenstein confirms...

He backs Barr

He (Barr) said that he and Rosenstein, who later left the Department of Justice in May, determined that evidence was insufficient to support an obstruction case against POTUS.

Rosenstein defended the decision in the Times interview. He argued that Barr’s critics were unfair, and that he agreed with the AG that the evidence against Donald Trump wasn’t enough to justify a criminal case.

“A few years from now, after all of this is resolved, some of Barr’s critics might conclude that his approach was a reasonable way to navigate through a difficult situation,” he said in a New York Times profile about the AG.

Some have suggested that Rod Rosenstein was either not on board, or simply bullied by William Barr to agree with him that there was insufficient evidence to have indicted the President for obstruction of Justice. But now that Rosenstein is no longer an employee of the Dept of Justice, the truth can finally come out. The truth is that Rosenstein agrees with Barr, and disagrees with critics.

Not only does the well respected Rod Rosenstein agree, but he calls the criticism of Barr unfair. Of course, all this means is that another well respected life-time government official will no doubt now be considered to be compromised, just like anyone who stands up against the anti-Trump media. Of the three of them, Barr, Rosenstein, and Mueller, the level of respect three years ago was likely in that order.

Barr being a former A.G. who ran the Office of Legal Counsel under President Bush was likely the most respected. Rod Rosenstein, had a distinguished career with little or no controversy, would have been a close second. Whereas, while Robert Mueller was respected, he was also someone who had been criticized for being a bulldog prosecutor who sometimes bent the rules to get a conviction.

But as it stands, the current day media would likely place them the opposite. Not for any other reason than Mueller seems anti-Trump, Rosenstein seems neutral, while Barr is being painted as pro-Trump (the kiss of death).

The truth is that once the dust settles, emotions calm down, and we look back objectively, we will realize that no long term good can come from a Federal Prosecutor demanding that the President of the United States is a criminal because he tweets too often, or because he fired his incompetent FBI director. In fact, the reality will be that some day people will look back on this and wonder why half of the report is dedicated to making an obstruction case, when no actual underlying case was even close to being made.