Deputy Attorney General Reportedly Threatened To Quit Over Comey Backlash

Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general tasked with drafting a memo to explain the removal Tuesday of FBI Director James Comey, threatened to resignafter he was painted by the Trump administration as the mind behind the firing, according to The Washington Post. The Post, citing an anonymous source close to the White House, said Rosenstein felt like he was “cast as the prime mover of the decision to fire Comey,” when in fact he was asked by administration officials to draft the memo after...