Posted on 07/20/2017 2:35:49 PM PDT by bryan999
I hope you’re right.
Trump was saying that a day or two before Flynn resigned.
I would never say ‘traitor’ in reference to Sessions. As I see it, the problem many have with him is Jeff Sessions does not seem to match his terms of defense with the opposition’s terms of offense. In other words, appearing patient, diplomatic and concerned with protocol or deportment don’t suit the terms of battle being raged against all conservatives at this time.
Me too.
Fool me one hundred times, shame on you...
How many times are “honorable” Republicans going to utterly fail to keep their oath to this Republic?
Yup.
We're into reruns already! The "have confidence in Sessions" program aired in the June 8 press conference, ROTFL.
I once dreamed of getting an important, high-paying job. And then recusing myself from the duties of the job. Then I woke up. I guess you could say that Sessions is living my dream. I wish he’d wake up.
LOL!!
None of it means a damned thing unless/until some high-level democrats get prosecuted and imprisoned.
Sessions hasn’t recused himself from going after them for their multitudes of felonies has he? There’s a massive pile of $#!+ and a giant fan. We need one to start hitting the other.
That’s my threshold for whether Sessions will be deemed a success or a failure.
I think Sessions is still on Senate time. So far he has been a disappointment.
It’s not surprising. If Trump did not have confidence in Sessions, he would have been gone already.
What Trump was trying to do is not “lash out” at Sessions, as the lunatic MSM and the Never Trump freaks on Fox News are claiming.
Trump is trying to get the message out through the media filter of how this illegal Special Counsel came about, and why this investigation is illegitimate.
My interpretation is that Trump has come to the conclusion that the investigation needs to be reined in or terminated, and he is beginning to lay the groundwork with the public and Congress.
In retrospect, Mueller should have been fired on the day appointed, and Rosenstein told he needed to specify a particular and specific crime to be investigated in order to appoint a special counsel under DOJ rules.
There is no legal basis to appoint a prosecutor-general assigned to investigate President Trump but with no specific crime in view.
Sessions has been very active and effective. Too bad you are missing it whether it is illegal immigration, medicare/medicaid fraud, voter fraud, countering gangs (MS-13), etc.
Jeff Sessions has done more damage in his first 100 days than his boss
US attorney general Jeff Sessions may not be part of the biggest investigation in the Department of Justice, but as he reaches 100 days in office, there’s little doubt that he’s had an important impact on the American criminal-justice system—potentially for years to come.
Despite the political turmoil of the Trump administration, Sessions has moved to reverse a tide of progressive reform and to fulfill his boss’s law-and-order agenda, a collection of concepts loosely articulated during the 2016 presidential campaign. Sessions’ biggest actions, from undermining federal oversight of police departments to cracking down on undocumented immigrants, have worried a wide array of lawmakers, law-enforcement leaders, advocates and scientists.
“Of all the cabinet members, maybe even the president, he has to this point had the most significant impact as to policy changes,” said Jesselyn McCurdy, the deputy director at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Washington Legislative Office told Quartz.
Unlike his boss, Sessions is delivering on what he has promised—sometimes on causes he has championed for decades.
“There’s been a great bipartisan movement by organizations on the ground and members of Congress to reform the federal criminal-justice system, based on successes that have happened in the states, but the leader of opposition to that reform was Jeff Sessions, as a senator from Alabama,” McCurdy said. “These are all things that [Sessions], as a criminal justice reform opponent, had on his radar already.
McCurdy said Sessions was “definitely” living up to the ACLU’s concerns, and in some areas, fulfilling the worst-case scenarios. \
Jeff Sessions ushers in 'Trump era' at the Justice Department
In just over two months, Sessions has proved to be a central figure in effectuating Trump's vision for America in tangible ways on immigration, crime, police reform and civil rights.
And while the White House searches for new messaging to frame what Trump has accomplished in the first 100 days in office, Sessions has single-handedly managed to make several significant domestic policy changes -- from pressing pause on implementing police reforms to withdrawing Obama-era protections for transgender students in public schools.
his radical transformation of the Justice Department's role is no accident.
Many of the changes Sessions has made thus far track a familiar principle of federalism: the notion that the federal government's powers are limited and it can't coerce states into action. In other words, the federal government should get out of the states' way.
Sessions' critics worry that he is well on his way to undoing many of the major progressive achievements of his predecessors, often by withdrawing from court cases or previous directives that fail to align with his views. Yet Trump supporters cheered Sessions on during the presidential campaign when he said, "the American people are not happy with their government."
Now that Sessions is the nation's top law enforcement officer, his defenders and critics universally agree: he's been busy fulfilling the President's campaign promises and he's just getting started.
good move Mr. President.
I heard Trump talked with Sessions before the interview - probably has Sessions ruing the naivete of his recusal and giving him an opportunity to redeem himself by helping get rid of the head witch hunter...
Yeah in sports that is usually the kiss of death.
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