in the Trump administration’s family separation policy at the southern border.) It’s possible that Rosen will try to continue to fly under the radar when he takes over during the final weeks of Trump’s lame-duck session. But some prosecutors who have worked with him have suggested that Rosen could be even more of a yes-man to Trump than those who held the job before him. “I think he is more prone to agree with the White House and do what the White House counsel wants,” one prosecutorNPR.
If that’s the case, it’s possible he could play a role in Trump’s interminable efforts to challenge the election results and to more publicly probe the president-elect’s son,from the public in the run-up to the election, helped further sour his relationship with the president, who’d been counting on him to deliver an October surprise. It’s possible that, in handing the DOJ off to Rosen, Trump believes he’ll have an even more strident ally to do his bidding.
What that bidding would entail—in a tenure that will last a month at most (and could always be less if Trump has an impulse between now and his last day to put
He is appointed by Trump...so yes he has time to cause a lot of fucking problems.