Rosenstein for the high jump

Rod Rosenstein has three days of high suspense before he meets face to face with Donald Trump at the White House over the New York Times conspiracy story.The not-for-much-longer deputy attorney general is for the high jump. If he doesn't jump, Trump will jump on him. Thanks to the New York Times poor Rosenstein's apparent "joke" about wearing a wire to tape Trump and talking about the 25th Amendment is likely to get him the chop. Although Trump's favourite news presenter on Fox has advised him against firing Rosenstein someone like Donald J is not going to take lightly any hint of conspiracy against him. As I said in a previous blog I seriously doubt Rosenstein genuinely plotted to have Trump thrown out of the Oval Office. Who the hell is he after all? Just the deputy attorney general. He's not a big gun when you have bigger guns working closely with the president every day. But the New York Times claimed Rosenstein thought he could corral General Kelly and Jeff Sessions to slap a 25th Amendment onto Trump's back. Trump has two options when he meets Rosenstein on Thursday: fire him on the spot with or without evidence, or laugh it off. If he does the latter I'm guessing there will be a condition attached: "I won't fire you this time but I want this Mueller witchhunt wrapped up before the end of the year or both you and Mueller will be fired." Rosenstein is between a rock and a hard place. If he denies the New York Times story as an exaggerated piece of piffle, Trump may just accuse him of lying and sack him anyway. If he admits any of the story is true but he didn't really mean it, Trump will definitely sack him. If Trump does hold off from firing him but demands a quick end to the Mueller Russia collusion investigation, Rosenstein will probably say he has given free reign to the former FBI director and the law requires the process to continue at its own pace. So then Trump will fire him. I don't think Trump can ever trust Rosenstein again. He doesn't trust or like Sessions, the attorney general, either, so he might just sack them both and have a clean sweep at the Justice Department. He would argue that he now has just cause to do so because of the reported conspiracy. But if Trump were to remain true to his previous statements that everything appearing in the New York Times is fake news, why would he believe this particular story hahaha? So that has to be Rosenstein's argument when he sits or stands in front of Trump on Thursday: "But Mr President, as you know, these sort of stories are all made up for political reasons, just fake news." Trump could then be stymied, hoist with his own petard. I wonder if Trump knows that phrase from Hamlet.