Axios's Jonathan Swan Erupts on Gabe Sherman Over Rosenstein Report: 'This is Such Disgraceful BS

[DonViejo]

Axios’s Jonathan Swan Erupts on Gabe Sherman Over Rosenstein Report: ‘This is Such Disgraceful Bullsh*t’

by Joe DePaolo | Sep 24th, 2018, 3:07 pm

Axios’s Jonathan Swan absolutely tore into Gabriel Sherman of Vanity Fair Monday — accusing him of “doing stenography” for former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

Swan, on Monday morning, reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein “verbally resigned to Chief of Staff John Kelly in anticipation of being fired by President [Donald] Trump.” (The post was subsequently updated to read that Rosenstein “verbally ‘offered to resign.'”)

Sherman referenced Swan’s report in a piece published Monday afternoon, calling it a “smoke bomb,” and reporting that President Donald Trump wanted to sack Rosenstein to drive the Brett Kavanaugh story out of the news.

Swan, clearly, did not appreciate the assertions in Sherman’s piece, and proceeded to slam him on Twitter.

Link to tweet

Sherman has not yet responded to Swan.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/axioss-jonathan-swan-erupts-on-gabe-sherman-over-rosenstein-report-this-is-such-disgraceful-bullsht/

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Wondering when the so called

D.C. Media cocktail circus would start eating their own. Score a hit for Bill Shine,he found a sucker.

[Nevilledog]

2. Play with a douche you're gonna get douched.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. With the now-daily major breaking news dumps

everyone once to get on the bandwagon.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Why would Bannon want Trump painted as doing shit to distract from Kavanaugh?

Sherman's take on it doesn't seem to help anyone on the right; and it doesn't say Axios was lying or anything, just that the White House talked to them for a reason - to divert the news agenda. Which is highly believable and unsurprising. We can see that the resignation hasn't happened yet, so the White House didn't need to say anything about it; Sherman's explanation is the simplest.