[sphinx]

I looked at the DOJ website. Jeff Sessions, as far as I can see, is the only confirmed Trump appointee in the department. The other senior positions are held by Actings, including a couple of former Sessions Senate staffers, who may be perfectly good hires but who have also not been confirmed. That's in DC. Across the country, the U.S. Attorneys are mostly Acting, with quite a few Obama holdovers still in place. So: if Trump fires Sessions, he will have fired the only Trump person in the entire Department (assuming the longtime Sessions staffers do not long survive the ouster of their boss).

As of last week, Trump had exactly 47 appointees confirmed across the entire government. Most open leadership positions do not yet even have nominees. Maybe Trump should start staffing his administration before he starts firing the few people he does have.

I think the people in this White House are in a bubble, or bunker, and are mostly oblivious to the great, grinding machinery of the government. They seem to be utterly consumed with the twitter wars and think they are busy because they are frantically responding to today's media distractions. The inner circle consists mostly of amateurs who seem to have a virtual reality view of the job. The government is a huge lumbering machine that can run for a long time on autopilot if all you want is more of the same. But it requires effective management if you actually want to change anything.

Cabinet Secretaries are running huge operations with tens of thousands of employees. The idea that a Secretary and three political appointees on his personal staff can effectively direct something that big is nonsensical. But the people in charge, and not just Trump himself, seem so busy with twitter wars and day to day damage control that they are simply ignoring 99 percent of what the government actually does.

Before Trump fires Sessions, if he does (and I think that would be a mistake), he'd better make sure the rest of the department is staffed with administration picks. Does anyone here really want to be a year into the Trump administration and have a DOJ without a single Republican in a management role?

Who is running the office of presidential personnel? It seems to be a black hole.

[Helicondelta]

“he will have fired the only Trump person in the entire Department”

Now that’s a joke. Sessions was right there when Mueller was unleashed on Trump.

Session’s deputy was confirmed by the senate. For all practical purposes Rosenstein is already in charge. Sessions is recused and spending his time chasing pot smokers.

[Cboldt]

Sessions and Rosenstein are both Trump nominees.

[Rusty0604]

DAG was nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate before he was sworn in.