Rod Rosenstein throws a spanner in the Democratic message machine

Published May 21, 2018 8:39am ET



Many have laughed at Trump’s concerns, but on Sunday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave momentum to President Trump’s belief that the FBI may have spied on his 2016 presidential campaign for political reasons. Rosenstein did so by ordering the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate whether there has been “impropriety or political motivation” in the FBI’s Trump-related investigations.

Trump had called for just this kind of investigation earlier on Sunday with the following tweet:

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