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TEHRAN, Apr 30 -US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who stirred tensions in Washington by appointing Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, has announced his departure.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -Rosenstein made the announcement in a letter addressed to Trump on Monday, writing: “I am grateful to you for the opportunity to serve; for the courtesy and humor you often display in our personal conversations; and for the goals you set in your inaugural address: patriotism, unity, safety, education and prosperity.”
He also used two of the president's campaign slogans to tell him that he helped staff the US Justice department with officials “devoted to the values that make America great” and adding “we always put America first.”
The resignation will take effect on May 11. The White House noted that Trump had already nominated Deputy Transportation Secretary Jeffrey Rosen to replace Rosenstein.
Rosenstein was expected to quit in March but stayed on the job to help Attorney General William Barr redact and publicly release the Mueller report on the 22-month probe, which came out in March and, as Trump insists, “exonerated” him from all charges.
Mueller did not make any determination on whether Trump had obstructed justice in the probe. Rosenstein and Barr made that call after examining the reports and concluding that there was insufficient evidence to support that theory.
“We enforce the law without fear or favor because credible evidence is not partisan,” Rosenstein wrote in the letter.
As a Republican, he often came under fire from Trump and his allies for appointing Mueller to lead an investigation that the president has repeatedly called as a “hoax” and a “witch hunt.”
Source:presstv
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