“At times he got up and walked around the table,” Mr. Stewart wrote of Mr. Rosenstein during the meeting in the deputy attorney general’s office. “At one point, he was so upset he went into an adjoining bathroom to compose himself.”That evening, Mr. Rosenstein revealed that Mr. Trump wanted Mr. Kelly to run both the F.B.I. “You’ve got to be kidding,” Mr. McCabe told him. For his part, Mr. Kelly was deeply disturbed by Mr. Comey’s ouster. “He didn’t want to work for someone so dishonorable.”Those reservations were apparently short-lived: Mr. Kelly went on to serve as Mr. Trump’s chief of staff for 17 months.

Source: New York Times October 06, 2019 23:37 UTC