Posted on 06/06/2017 7:21:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON Few Republicans were quicker to embrace President Trumps campaign last year than Jeff Sessions, and his reward was one of the most prestigious jobs in America. But more than four months into his presidency, Mr. Trump has grown sour on Mr. Sessions, now his attorney general, blaming him for various troubles that have plagued the White House.
The discontent was on display on Monday in a series of stark early-morning postings on Twitter in which the president faulted his own Justice Department for its defense of his travel ban on visitors from certain predominantly Muslim countries. Mr. Trump accused Mr. Sessionss department of devising a politically correct version of the ban as if the president had nothing to do with it.
In private, the presidents exasperation has been even sharper. He has intermittently fumed for months over Mr. Sessionss decision to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in last years election, according to people close to Mr. Trump who insisted on anonymity to describe internal conversations. In Mr. Trumps view, they said, it was that recusal that eventually led to the appointment of a special counsel who took over the investigation.
Behind-the-scenes frustration would not be unprecedented in the Oval Office. Other presidents have become estranged from the Justice Department over time, notably President Bill Clinton, who bristled at Attorney General Janet Renos decisions to authorize investigations into him and his administration, among other things. But Mr. Trumps tweets on Monday made his feelings evident for all to see and raised questions about how he is managing his own administration.
They wholly undercut the idea that there is some rational process behind the presidents decisions, said Walter E. Dellinger, who served as acting solicitor general under Mr. Clinton.
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I have yet to be impressed by Jeff Sessions.
Now that is another matter. I certainly expected a lot more from Sessions. And if Trump has any disagreement with Sessions i would think, or hope?, that is it.
Wait, NYTimes?
Is this true? (sarc)
I think it’s probably true, actually. Spicer was asked today if Trump had confidence in Sessions, and he dodged hard.
It’s really too bad, and I hope they can patch things up. Sessions caved on the recusal which really set the table for the fake news media to pressure his deputy into hiring a special counsel.
IIRC, the president was on a plane flying somewhere when the recusal happened, and was rightfully furious when he found out. Sessions should have talked to his boss about it beforehand. I still think Mueller clears him, but who knows. He may go after Flynn on a process crime, and the left will use that to muddy the resolution with some kind of vindication in that.
Holder NEVER would have recused himself for anything with Obama when he was running guns into Mexico, weaponizing the IRS, covering up a 911 terrorist attack to win an election, etc. Here we have a fake scandal and Sessions buckled almost instantaneously. In Sessions defense, the media never went after Holder hard (at all?) for a recusal on anything, but Jeff should have known what was coming.
Obviously, Trump didn’t help himself when he told Lester Holt he fired Comey for his handling of this witch hunt, but it might have never gotten to that if Sessions held firm in the first place.
You are right. We’ve yet to see the first piece of evidence of anything to do with this ludicrous “case”, but we already have a special counsel because Sessions didn’t hold firm.
The communist media did their job - they pressured until they got what they wanted in order to undermine the president and sow discord between him and his AG. Now, who knows how long this phony investigation drags on for.
Are you familiar with the computer equipment seized by the Capitol Police from the house of the Awan brothers? The equipment that DWS threatened the police chief for?
There is a theory that she regained this equipment when it was transported to Dearborn to be picked up by the FBI in this raid.
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