The specific target of his ire is how Comey handled reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails adn server after then-AG Loretta Lynch had had her conflict-of-interest inducing meeting with Bill Clinton on the Phoenix tarmac.
Rosenstein is totally right. It was grandstanding, as I said at the time, and not SOP, either. Then-Deputy AG Sally Yates, Rosenstein's predecessor should have been contacted by Comey and she should have been asked to get Lynch to officially recuse herself, then take over. If Yates refused to act, then it's out of Comey's hands (other than leaking to the press).
That's why I said, in reviewing it, that Comey's book should have been called "A Higher Loyalty to His Self-Image."
Rosenstein said he would have handled Comey's firing differently had it been just him, not Trump, but that Comey deserved to be fired.
He did.
Period and end of story, Donut Twitter and Resistance.
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