TeaBagger Group 'CNP' is the main force (outside Congress) trying to oust Rosenstein
Conservative group calls for Rod Rosenstein's head
The Tea Party Patriots, a conservative activist group, is launching an advertising campaign calling on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to "do his job, or resign."
Why this matters: The campaign is modest initially a six-figure spend on digital and TV in Washington D.C. but the attack is a canary in the right-wing coal mine. I expect other conservative groups to follow. Such attacks have outraged many in the Justice Department and the FBI.
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In recent days, major figures in the conservative movement have been emailing around this Wall Street Journal column by Kimberley Strassel. The column suggests without explicitly stating so that Rosenstein is part of the left-wing resistance against President Trump:
"The slippery shadow in all this is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recusal put Mr. Rosenstein in charge of digging into the actionsright or wrongof the Justice Department and FBI in 2016. Instead of taking up that challenge, he named an old and dear friend of the FBI as special counsel, and directed him only to look at Mr. Trump. And Mr. Rosenstein appears to have signed up as an active participant in the effort to thwart any congressional investigation of the other side of the issue."
Update: CNP Action, a sister group of the
Council for National Policy, an influential group among conservative leaders, has sent the Tea Party Patriots ad to its allies. The email urges them to keep applying pressure to Rosenstein and to spread the word to other activists.
https://www.axios.com/conservative-group-ad-rod-rosenstein-resign-3cd8aec1-af54-49fa-906e-d30cbf19fd0d.html