President Trump declined to say whether he would fire Rod Rosenstein after a news report said the deputy attorney general suggested secretly recording the president and using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
“I don’t want to comment on it until I get all the facts,” Trump told the “Geraldo in Cleveland” radio show in an interview airing Monday, the New York Times reported.
“I haven’t gotten all the facts, but certainly it’s being looked at in terms of what took place. If anything took place and I’ll make a determination sometime later, but I don’t have the facts,” Trump told Geraldo Rivera, the Fox News commentator, on his new show.
Rosenstein, according to a report in the New York Times last Friday, raised the possibility in May 2017 of secretly taping conversations with Trump and trying to enlist administration officials to invoke the 25th Amendment to force the president out of office.
Rosenstein, who’s overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, has denied the report, saying it’s “factually incorrect.”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe after it was revealed he met with a Russian ambassador during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.



