Washington Examiner reporter Eddie Scarry on Tuesday said the media tends to focus on stories about potentially removing President Trump from office with the 25th Amendment during slower periods in the news cycle.
Scarry discussed the New York Times report, published last month, that Rosenstein openly discussed secretly taping the president last year as well as using the 25th Amendment to oust him from office.
“I’ve actually always had a hard time believing this story to begin with,” Scarry told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on “Rising.”
“Every time things get a little bit sleepy, we have to have a story about the 25th Amendment,” he continued.
“I think that someone in the White House or the administration doesn’t like Rod Rosenstein, and wanted to see something happen with him, maybe fired or moved out of his role in some capacity,” he said.
“We saw this with Michael Wolff’s book, we saw this in Woodward’s book. We see the 25th Amendment come up every few weeks when things get a little bit dull,” he said.
Scarry’s comments come after Trump on Monday suggested that Rosenstein’s job was safe amid speculation about whether he would keep Rosenstein in the position after the Times report.
“I’m not making any changes. You’d be the first to know,” Trump said, adding that he and Rosenstein get along.
The two men traveled aboard Air Force One together to Orlando, Fla., on Monday.
Rosenstein has denied the Times report.
The two were originally supposed to meet in the days after the story broke.
Rosenstein is overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s election meddling, which Trump has referred to as a “witch hunt.”
— Julia Manchester
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