Allies of President Donald Trump are calling for the dismissal of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein over reports that he discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president.
The bombshell story by The New York Times ignited a political firestorm Friday afternoon, prompting calls from conservatives for Trump to fire America’s second most senior law enforcement official.
The report, citing anonymous sources, also said that Rosenstein had proposed wearing a wire to secretly record conversations with the president in the Oval Office.
Rosenstein reportedly made the comments to other Justice Department officials after the president fired FBI Director James Comey in May of 2017.
Some media outlets speculated that the sources of the allegations were memos created by former FBI acting director Andrew McCabe, who was fired by the Justice Department earlier this year.
The Times report was met with an unusual…