Posted on 05/08/2020 7:29:42 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
Sessions loved the Department of Justice as an institution and trusted its vaunted "career professionals," of which he was once one as a young lawyer. Thus, as AG, Sessions was naturally inclined to let himself be led by the nose, taking resumes and recommendations at face value and making key personnel choices as if he a new dean selecting bright and congenial staff for a prestigious law school that had a few openings.
Much more was needed though. Due to the intense and unprincipled opposition to Trump, his choice as AG would be called upon to seize, occupy, and govern choice bureaucratic territory held by his enemies. Doing so would require a constant battle. Sessions though was temperamentally incapable of such a role, and especially so after the brutal treatment dished out during the fight over his confirmation.
Instead of a loyal and resolute AG who was a reformer with a street fighter's realism and toughness, in Sessions, Trump got a clueless fuddy-duddy who entered office suffering a form of PTSD after the rough handling he got from Trump's enemies during Senate confirmation. Instead of a pit bull fighting to advance the Trump administration's interests and policies, in AG Jeff Sessions, Trump got an old, whipped dog desperate for affection, peace, and comfort.
Under easier and better circumstances, Sessions could have been a fine AG. Or, if Trump had sent Sessions over to the DOJ with a phalanx of tough political combatants authorized and determined to clean house, Sessions might have made it through a term as reasonably good AG. Yet that was not to be, and Sessions failed as AG due to his inadequacies.
Under Sessions, Rosenstein and other villains in the DOJ smiled to his face, snickered behind his back, and broke the law as they intrigued to use the FBI and the DOJ to bring down a President. Trump had good reason to be disappointed and furious with Sessions, and, I suspect, sad for him as well.
You people are so dishonest about the past that it is obviously on purpose. I have always suspected that you are a paid operative sent to manipulate forum conversations. It is waist of time to debate such dishonest people.
No. I'm a long time honest individual Freeper and you're a delusional liar.
Congratulations, your post is probably the best description of what may have actually happened that I have seen, in years of looking for an answer.
It mostly blames Sessions, it lightly blames Trump, and describes a perfect storm.
However, the destruction to the country, and the pain it caused was immense. At some point, one of them should have recognized what was going on, and done something about it.
Sessions, being in the subservant role, should have fallen on his sword if necessary, as soon as the Strozk texts came to light. Instead, he dug in his heels, and argued with Trump publicly. He clung to his appointment that he had already tarnished irreparably.
Sessions failed, ultimately, and horribly. Trump survived, no thanks to Sessions, but the scars on his Presidency remain, and may never go away.
The difficulty for Sessions, Trump, and anyone in a senior political position during a crisis is that the demands on one's time, attention, and energy can be overwhelming. Many mistakes and oversights flow from that, with over-stressed, emotion-driven decisions all too common.
I have no doubt near everyone inside Main DOJ hates Trump. His AG has a basically impossible job without the support of the GOP on his flanks. Time and again we have seen the GOP refuse to provide its constitutionally mandated oversight fuction and breath life into The Resistance (TM). The bipartisan nature of the ongoing coup causes at best gridlock at DOJ and at worst open sedition.
Tucker was just asking some great questions about where the he!! were the Republican Congressmen when all this BS was going down. They saw what was going on in the classified briefings, yet at least half of them were saying Mueller must be allowed to proceed etc.
Sessions was playing right along too, and Martha McCallum just asked him hey dumbo elf wasn’t there anything you could do other than just sit there like a lump on the log, to which he spouted a bunch of nonsense trying to insist he did something even though everyone knows he didn’t.
It’s pretty obvious they wanted something to be found. They wanted him removed, they just couldn’t find a way to do it. He’s not out of the woods yet, either.
Tucker was just asking some great questions about where the he!! were the Republican Congressmen when all this BS was going down. They saw what was going on in the classified briefings, yet at least half of them were saying Mueller must be allowed to proceed etc.
I’m watching now. Great stuff. Tucker for POTUS! Can you imagine him tossing these Trumpian bombs in a POTUS debate while a bunch of useless Senators are standing there?
Good to see at least him and Martha asking WTFO. Hannity has Gowdy on now and keeps praising him over and over.
Matt Gaetz just fired shots at Paul Ryan and Trey Gowdy for not doing more, and even blocking Nunes when we had control of the House. Gaetz called it “a failure of Republican leadership” before Hannity cut him off and rushed to commercial.
I think that Barr is proving to be the AG whom Sessions ought to have been. For months, Barr has been slowly and carefully undoing the legal snares and traps set for Trump and his administration. The fruit of that effort is now becoming public with the vindication of General Flynn and the release of the declassified House Intel Committee transcripts. For the Democrats, it is as if a feared wolf has escaped their best traps and turned on them, with rabbits no less cheering him on.
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