Rod Rosenstein

…recently appointed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who, in a memo solicited by the president, criticized Comey’s handling of the public announcements related to Clinton’s e-mails. Soon after Comey’s dismissal, however, the president made it known that he had planned to fire Comey regardless of the Justice Department’s recommendation, at…

…he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had decided that there was insufficient evidence to prove that Trump had obstructed justice.