US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had openly discussed removing President Donald Trump from power in 2017, according to former FBI director Andrew McCabe.
McCabe told CBS News on Sunday that Rosenstein raised the issue after Trump’s firing of former FBI director James Comey.
“Rod raised the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other Cabinet officials might support such an effort,” said McCabe, who briefly took over after Comey as the acting FBI director.
Asked whether Rosenstein was keen on “getting rid of the President of the United States one way or another” by trying to invoke the 25th amendment of the US Constitution, McCabe said he could not confirm.
“But what I can say is the deputy attorney general was…