President Donald Trump has postponed his planned meeting with embattled Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — rescheduling the tête-a-tête that could shape up to be one of the most consequential moments of this presidency so far.

Rumours have circulated that Mr Rosenstein may be on the way out after it was reported by The New York Times last week that the Justice Department’s second in command had suggested secretly recording the president, and discussed an effort to recruit cabinet members in order to invoke the 25th amendment to declare Mr Trump unfit for office and toss him from the Oval Office.

Mr Rosenstein holds authority over the Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself citing Justice Department protocol to stay out of investigations into campaigns in which individual officials were involved. He had met Russian officials when part of Mr Trump's campaign.

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