US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has announced he is stepping down
US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Image: Michael Brochstein via PA Images US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Image: Michael Brochstein via PA Images US DEPUTY ATTORNEY General Rod Rosenstein has announced he is stepping down.In a letter to US President Donald Trump, Rosenstein said he would leave on 11 May.
Then-attorney general Jeff Sessions had already recused himself from overseeing the investigation, leaving Rosenstein in charge.This was a position that became even more crucial when the investigation began examining whether Trump himself had obstructed justice by firing Comey and then trying to have Mueller ousted.
However, he reached no conclusion on obstruction, detailing the evidence he had accumulated and leaving it to Congress to act. He joined the Justice Department in 1990 and participated in the independent counsel investigation into Bill Clinton, which eventually morphed into the sex scandal that saw Clinton impeached in Congress.
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