How to keep up. An hour or two ago the Times published a story reporting that Rod Rosenstein was talking about invoking the 25th Amendment in 2017.

Huge scoop by ⁦@adamgoldmanNYT⁩ and ⁦@nytmike⁩ on Rod Rosenstein talking about secretly recording Trump and raising 25th amendment in the Comey firing aftermath https://t.co/IJTpHUpkP4

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 21, 2018

Many many journalists and lawyers and such on Twitter pointed out that Trump is likely to see this as the perfect pretext to fire Rosenstein, and wondered if the Times had really thought this through. There were a lot of tweets of the infamous Times headline about the FBI’s finding no evidence of Russian interference some ten minutes before the election. The Post published a story disputing the Times version of what happened.

Seeing a lot of folks from the ride-or-die Trump crew seizing on NYT Rosenstein story to call for Ro to be fired.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 21, 2018

Trump and his allies are searching for a pretext to fire Rosenstein (and Sessions) so that they can end the Mueller probe. Here is the actual quote, which the NYT version lacks. https://t.co/5yeOypoXiJ

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 21, 2018

Andrew McCabe was suggesting that DOJ investigate the president, per @mattzap & @DevlinBarrett reporting. “What do you want to do, Andy, wire the president?” Rosenstein responded. https://t.co/WqXCof3QZ2

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) September 21, 2018

SCHUMER: "This story must not be used as a pretext for the corrupt purpose of firing Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein in order install an official who will allow the president to interfere with the Special Counsel’s investigation." pic.twitter.com/zg5wzPpBrB

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) September 21, 2018

Frankly it’s all rather alarming.