Two Witnesses Back Account Rosenstein Considered Taping Trump
- FBI lawyers tell House panel of discussions about wearing wire
- Rosenstein denies ever ‘pursuing’ secret taping of president
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The explosive assertion that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein considered secretly recording President Donald Trump has been backed up in private testimony to Congress by two FBI lawyers.
Both officials also told lawmakers that there was simultaneous talk in the spring of 2017, just months after Trump’s inauguration, that two unidentified Cabinet officials were on board with the idea of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump as president.