Trump heightens attacks on Sessions: He's 'scared stiff and missing in action'

The Hill ^ | 08/11/18 | Tal Axelrod

[Electric Graffiti]

“A pro active attorney general would have been an enormous asset in draining the swamp or at least prosecuting many of the criminal factions in the bureaucracy. The Left is not attacking Jeff Sessions except in regard to the few moves he is making on illegal aliens. For the most part they have ignored him over the past 18 months and that speaks volumes to me. “

Good points. We needed all hands on deck to have a slim chance of wresting control of our corrupt fed govt from the rabid left...Sessions betrayal made that task all but impossible

[morphing libertarian]

In case you haven’t noticed Trump is the GD president and has the highest power.

[FreeReign]

If he doesn’t like what Sessions is doing or not doing, talk to him privately. Don’t involve the rest of us, please.

More likely, Trump doesn't trust Sessions enough to talk to him in private.

Remember when Comey said that his private meeting with Trump was "evidence of obstruction".

[mdmathis6]

Pence will have to choose a new vice president. His Vice president will become president. By the time it all rolls around it would by 2020 anyway. The Senate would have to vote by 2/3’rd to remove Trump anyway and the same would have to happen to Pence. Nothing will happen but a lot of dust.

[map]

Ernest Borgnine on a diet?

[Electric Graffiti]

Trump is one man. When you have both parties, the corrupt courts, the whole of the administrative state(stasi state), the DOJ and the propaganda media refusing to recognize your legitimacy as POTUS. You’re hamstrung...PINO.

[Sa-teef]

Recess appointments have been unavailable to PDJT because the Senate continues to play act that both houses can not agree on timing of a recess. They do their little "pro forma sessions" every three days even if it is only one member of the majority walking into the Senate chamber and gavel in the senate for a few minutes and then gavel it back out of session for another 72 hours, even when the vast majority of senators are back in their home states.

".....On June 26, 2014, in a 9–0 ruling, the United States Supreme Court validated this practice of using pro forma sessions to block the president from using the recess appointment authority...."

[af_vet_1981]

There’s no 3-D chess game going on. Sessions is as Trump says: scared to death.

The only rational reasons I can think of for Sessions to be scared to death are:
1. Jeff Sessions was a planted agent in the Trump campaign and his name redacted is in the FISA requests, et al.
2. Donald Trump is trolling him for what he views as a dereliction of duty and Jeff Sessions is scared to death to stand up to him.

None of it makes sense yet. There is not enough reliable information.

[LeoTDB69]

Scared is an interesting choice of words. I sometimes feel Trump is Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino and Sessions is the kid he is trying to teach to man-up and learn to stand up for himself.

[FreeReign]

I believe that it’s possible that Sessions is playing Possum.

Sessions could grab a stack of bibles, and swear on his mothers grave that he is recused, and then do absolutely nothing for 18 months and some of you would still think that Sessions is "playing possum".

[Alberta's Child]

Do you really think Donald J. Trump would spend more than ten seconds of his life in a position where he serves as “President in name only?” LOL.

[laplata]

I suppose I should have said that I hope he playing possum.

[caww]

Then you need to familiarize yourself with Trumps use of twitter more carefully perhaps...he's a genius at it!

[Bonemaker]

“Are you sure that’s a woman?”

Not in the normal sense of the term.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Trump tapped Sessions to be his AG for 2 reasons.

First, Rudy Giuliani made it clear he would not accept the AG position if offered. Trump wanted Giuliani for AG but Rudy pre-empted Trump’s offer by saying he would not accept it. Rudy now “regrets” this.

Second, Sessions was due a reward from Trump for being the first Deep State politician to support him. Trump is loyal if nothing else, and he was intent on rewarding Sessions for being his first supporter and biggest Deep State supporter. Sadly, Trump did not realize what a poor choice Sessions was for the job. Which is just how Trump works. He tries something, then corrects his mistakes. In this case, the Deep State and the GOP-e are threatening Trump if he corrects this mistake. I think Trump should call their bluff. They are spineless after all, but for some reason, Trump is unwilling to fire Sessions. He will after his re-election. Between administartions everybody in the cabinet submits resignations. Trump will accept Sessions’s resignation in 2020. That is too late though.

[Architect of Avalon]

Can Sessions unrecuse?

How would he do it?

[sergeantdave]

“Republicans in the Senate have said that they will move to impeach Trump if he moves on Sessions.”

Give me a link proving your assertion...

[morphing libertarian]

BS That one man is president If he feels paralyzed and you seem to feel he is, he should resign rather than let criminals walk round free..

[FreeReign]

Trump needs to put a lot of distance between himself and Sessions if there are going to be significant indictments of the Clinton and/or Obama crowd. It cannot be perceived that Trump is conspiring with Sessions to take down his political enemies.

Applying a little critical thought to your theory...

If Sessions acts after Trump criticizes Sessions then it would look like Trump is bullying Sessions into prosecuting people.

Both Trump and Sessions would look bad.

[DouglasKC]

There’s got to be some kind of Kabuki theater going on between Trump and sessions. There’s no way that he would allow him to be employed if he didn’t want him that bad.