Posted on 02/13/2019 10:52:22 AM PST by blueyon
I agree. But, Trump has always been big on loyalty. I too wonder what the truth is with Rosenstein as well as Sessions.
Trump’s even been loyal to questionable associates, like Cohen and Omarosa, until it was clear that loyalty was unrequited.
he would have had to be a deep plant playing a long game.
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I think that is the most likely explanation. Sessions was basically a creature of the Washington Swamp. He spent decades there and no doubt has a lot of skeletons rattling around in his closet. Something to hide. So he was “manageable”.
But the most logical reason to me is that he signed on to Trump’s campaign early on, at the request of the Deep State. He probably didn’t think Trump could win so he went along with the scheme figuring he’d cash in on whatever quid pro quo he had with his Deep State handlers for his service.
But Trump won and now ole Jeff becomes an insurance policy; he was unexpectedly thrust into the role of informing on and thwarting Trump from the inside. Sessions did absolutely nothing to help Trump, but everything to hinder him. What does that tell you?
So inserting himself into the Trump campaign wound up becoming a long game. And unfortunately he played it quite well for the other side.
Trump has always been big on loyalty
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I’m not so sure its about loyalty. Firing people often makes the firer look bad, especially when you’re the one who brought them in. And Trump hates to look bad. I think that’s a big factor for him.
Its ironic that a person so well known for saying “you’re fired” is so reluctant to do that as president. Just saying.
Rosensweasel deserves a firing squad. Unfortunately Barr is another bad pick. Expect nothing from him that would bring this punk to justice.
The FBI blew ANOTHER terrorist attack and doesn’t want the American public to know.
Just like their attempted coup.
5.56mm
Where did he get the $$$$?
Did Congress ok it?
When do WE get 2 C the ‘pu$$y list—U no..The bucks paid out to HUSH UP stories re the congresscritters ‘mistakes’ with their “side women” ...?
Proof positive this was a FedGov operation designed to take our gun rights.
“Where did he get the $$$$?”Same place the OBUMSTER got ‘bucks for muzzys’ years ago ?
It sure is.
I might add that staffing has been an unusually big problem for Trump. Obama recycled Clinton apparatchiks. Bush... well he didn't do much.
Clinton is the only one I can remember who came in with his own nearly complete crew from Arkansas. No one had ever heard of many of the people he appointed to power positions. But, a lot of them stuck around for a generation.
Trump not only didn't bring a lot of people with him (Javanka don't/doesn't count), he also inherited had an amazingly recalcitrant Deep State.
I think he made a number of bad picks, but his business and personal judgement may have been of limited usefulness in political selection. He may have had to rely on other people. So Rosenstein gave us Meuller; Christie (a purported conservative) gave us Christopher Wray, who I get a very bad swamp-vibe from.
History will have a field day looking back on this through competing hagiographies.
Re Sessions—deep Deep State Plant theory:
I’m open to the theory, but not absolutely convinced. Certainly that explains a lot. But, so does early Alzheimer’s.
On your side of the argument, its easy to believe that more than one insurance policy was instituted.
That shooting killed a lot of people.
Are each victim’s relatives more deserving of a government handout than the relatives of a victim of a single shooting, who get no government handout?
Whether the money goes directly to individuals or to agencies that gobble it for themselves, I think these handouts are insulting and unfair to the single victims.
The relatives of victims can seek compensation by suing.
“A definite possibility. Although, he had me fooled, as he was supportive enough of Trump during the campaign.”
Yeah. I think he was compromised but I don’t think they played their cards on him until he became AG.
This is like class-action suits: The victims get next to nothing.
The Swamp protects the Swamp. Whatever happened in Vegas was Swamp-connected.
Fire him 2 minutes before he resigns!
I agree.
And too few people care, or even know, about the existence of the Senior Executive Service [SES]: non-merit-based political positions of authority (and payment-ceiling-circumventing salary) over all civil servants with actual bureau expertise.
As far as I can verify, all the key players are SES, including Sessions, Horowitz, and Huber. Kavanaugh is too. I assume Barr is.
They are collectively - and they are a collective - the gatekeeper, the firewall, between a temporary elected administration and the permanent unelected bureaucratic class. Some of them derisively call someone like Trump “the Christmas help” with sneering contempt. (Picture Peter Strzok.)
It is as close to Soviet-style political apparatchiks as we have ever had. Thank John Kennedy for creating public unions, and Jimmy Carter for creating the SES. (Both Democrats. Huh. Wonder if that means anything.)
I call it Swamp Central.
The vast majority of federal employees are Democrats. They love the party because it funds more and more government programs and “services” which in turn provides secure jobs and lucrative employment that they would be unlikely to find elsewhere. The party pays them back for their loyalty and support. Its an insidious, symbiotic relationship.
Trump was an outsider so its understandable that he didn’t have a large army of experienced people he could bring in to help him run the government. Staffing has certainly been a challenge for him.
And the Democrats compounded that problem by going after everyone who supported Trump. By now there are probably not many people who are willing to work in the administration and put themselves and their families on the firing line.
To Democrats politics is blood sport. Too bad the Republicans are incapable of seeing that reality.
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