Trump’s Misplaced Baltimore Bias
President Donald Trump misleadingly suggested Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein may be biased against him because Rosenstein “is from Baltimore” and “there are very few Republicans in Baltimore.”
Rosenstein, who has testified that he is not a member of any political party, was appointed by Republican President George W. Bush to serve as U.S. attorney for the district of Maryland and elevated to deputy attorney general by Trump.
And he is not Baltimore. Rosenstein grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia. As the U.S. attorney for Maryland, in Baltimore, but lived in Bethesda, Maryland.
