More over-the-top fake outrage by Trump, who has never actually gotten around to firing his attorney general. And judging by the enemy article, it’s still working.
Trump could easily rid himself of Sessions if he really wanted to.
Obviously he doesn't want to get rid of him. If the Sessions-bashers here are right, that is, that Sessions is a sleepy-eyed swamp creature determined to slow walk everything so that nobody is ever brought to justice, then that doesn't reflect very well on Trump keeping him around, now does it?
Well my opinion on Trump is that he's nobody's fool and probably the sharpest knife ever in the presidential drawer. So it is logical for me to conclude that this "Trump-Sessions" feud is nothing but theater.
How do people think it would play out if Trump and Sessions were "best buddies" and Trump kept back-slapping him and saying "My man Jeff! Getting things done over at Justice! Wait 'til you see all the indictments my man Jeff is gonna roll out on Hillary and her crew!"
So yes, if things are really going to go down, it is important for Trump to keep his distance and even make it seem like he's really upset with the job Sessions is doing.
Now granted, the media is still going to go to a whole new level of hysteria should indictments rain down on the Democrats. They will still say it's Trump taking "banana republic style" revenge on his political opponents. But that criticism just won't have the same cachet had Trump and Sessions been back-slapping buddies all this time.