Conservative Lawmakers Deliver Panic-Inducing News to Rosenstein
The Freedom Caucus is fighting back.
Almost a year into special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of "Russian collusion"
with the Donald Trump presidential campaign, no evidence has yet publicly emerged for a
storyline that has had Democrats slavering for the impeachment of the president.
But the man who's formally in charge of that investigation might be facing impeachment
of his own.
House Republicans in the Freedom Caucus, a conservative group of lawmakers that's gotten
increasingly agitated with the partisan nature of Mueller's probe, have drafted articles
of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, The Washington Post reported.
According to The Post, the one-page document outlining the reason to remove the Justice
Department's second in command "came after weeks of disputes with Rosenstein over the
Justice Department's response to congressional requests for documents about the decisions
and behavior of federal law enforcement officials working on the Russia investigation and other
federal probes, including the investigation into 2016 Democratic presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton's email server."
U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the Freedom Caucus,
told the Post the caucus could push the impeachment idea if Rosenstein and the Justice Department
don't stop stonewalling congressional requests for information about the origins of the "Russia
collusion" probe.
Impeachment of a federal official is not an overnight matter, as the Post reported.
Articles of impeachment generally go through the House Judiciary Committee and are then
reported to the House floor, where they can pass with a simple majority.
They then go to the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is necessary for a conviction.
Given the blind partisanship of Senate Democrats, an impeachment effort against Rosenstein wouldn't
stand a chance, but even talk of it is sending a message to the Justice Department that Republicans
are running out of patience.
The articles of impeachment are just the latest twist in the long-running saga of the special
counsel's investigation, which started when Rosenstein appointed Mueller on May 17, 2017.
Rosenstein had the power to appoint Mueller because Attorney General Jeff Sessions had
recused himself from the Justice Department's handling of the case because of his own contact
with the Russian ambassador to the United States while he was a senator playing a major
role in the Trump campaign.
"My decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution
is warranted," Rosenstein said at the time, according to The New York Times.
"I have made no such determination."
For the Democrat Party and their allies in the liberal media, of course, that sentence
might as well have not been said.
From the beginning, the Mueller investigation itself has been considered prima facie proof
that there is something to the "Russia collusion" story — and if Mueller hasn't been able
to prove it, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
But for Trump supporters and the Freedom Caucus, the special counsel's investigation, and
the unwillingness by the Justice Department and the FBI to produce information about the
clearly tainted aspects of the investigation (like adulterous FBI agent Peter Strzok conspiring
against Trump with his bureau lawyer-lover Lisa Page), have been proof that Trump's
opponents are using the federal government itself as a weapon against a president they
both hate and fear.
In an interview with "Fox & Friends" on Thursday, Trump himself indicated he was losing
patience with the Justice Department's handling of the Mueller probe.
"They have a witch hunt against the president of the United States going on, I've taken
the position — and I don't have to take this position, maybe I'll change — that
I will not be involved with the Justice Department," he said, according to the Washington Examiner.
"I will wait till this is over."
Well, the Freedom Caucus is clearly getting frustrated with waiting, and panic might be
starting to set in for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Because the Freedom Caucus is fighting back.
H/T westernjournal
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