Analysis: Rod Rosenstein stuck his neck out for Trump. Now he’s doing it again for William Barr.
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow April 12 at 6:00 AM Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein is a short-timer at the Justice Department. And in one of his final acts — along with seeing the Mueller report through to its conclusion — he’s vouching for a superior on controversial decisions in the Russia investigation.
To some degree, Rosenstein was already invested in Barr’s stewardship of the closing stages of the Mueller probe. He praised Barr’s nomination, despite Barr’s known history of criticizing the Mueller probe, and in that letter he joined with Barr in their controversial decision to exonerate Trump of obstruction of justice — even as Mueller declined to either charge or exonerate him.
In public, Mr. Rosenstein has shown no hint that he had second thoughts about his role — writing a memo about Mr. Comey’s performance that the White House used to justify firing him. “I wrote it. I believe it. I stand by it,” Mr. Rosenstein said to Congress last year.
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