Lindsey Graham on Rosenstein Story: ‘There’s a Bureaucratic Coup’ Against Trump
On Fox News Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spoke with host Chris Wallace about the New York Times‘ story that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentein seriously considered secretly recording President Donald Trump and invoking the 25th amendment to have him removed from office.
Wallace got right to the point following their long exchange over the Kavanaugh hearings, and asked “should the President fire Rosenstein, and to what degree does this revelation taint, compromise the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, whom Rosenstein appointed?”
“He shouldn’t fire Rosenstein unless you believe Rosenstein’s lying, he said he didn’t do the things alleged,” said Graham. “But there’s a bureaucratic against President Trump being un… discovered here.”
“Before the election the people in question tried to taint the election, tip it Clinton’s favor, after the election they’re trying to undermine the President,” he added. “I don’t know what Rosenstein did but I know what McCabe or Page and Strzok did. They tried to destroy this president. If Rosenstein’s involved, he should be fired, if he’s not involved then leave him alone.”
Graham then said a new special counsel is needed to investigate the FBI’s conduct and investigation of Trump, and that Rosenstein is doing the country a “disservice” by not appointing another special counsel. Later in Fox News Sunday, Washington Post‘s Bob Woodward pushed back suggesting the last thing we need is another another special counsel investigation.
Graham repeated again before the end that “clearly” the Dept. of Justice was trying to undermine the election, and that “there’s a bureaucratic coup going on aat the Department of Justice and the FBI, and somebody needs to look at it.”
Watch the clip above, courtesy of Fox.
[Featured image via screengrab]
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