By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com
Published: 13:04 GMT, 18 February 2019 | Updated: 13:11 GMT, 18 February 2019
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Donald Trump began the annual President's Day holiday on Monday by labeling as 'treasonous' a pair of reported plots by senior Justice Department officials to secretly record him in the Oval Office and gather support for removing him from power.
The schemes involved Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who said during a '60 Minutes' interview Sunday night that Rosenstein was 'absolutely serious' about wearing a wire around the president.
McCabe also said Rosenstein at one point tried to gauge support among members of Trump's Cabinet for using the Constitution's 25th Amendment to terminate his presidency.
'Wow, so many lies by now disgraced acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe. He was fired for lying, and now his story gets even more deranged. He and Rod Rosenstein, who was hired by Jeff Sessions (another beauty), look like they were planning a very illegal act, and got caught,' Trump tweeted Monday morning.
'There is a lot of explaining to do to the millions of people who had just elected a president who they really like and who has done a great job for them with the Military, Vets, Economy and so much more. This was the illegal and treasonous “insurance policy” in full action!'
President Donald Trump said Monday that a pair of reported plots against him were 'illegal and treasonous'