Posted on 03/03/2020 10:28:52 PM PST by Trump20162020
Former Sen. Jeff Sessions and onetime Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville were neck and neck in the Republican primary race for the Senate on Tuesday night and likely headed for a runoff.
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Yep, he was an early Trump backer and he was rewarded. But he failed.
Here are the two narratives I just cant seem to reconcile:
1) Jeff Sessions was supposed to get himself confirmed as AG without recusing, block the witch hunt, indict lots of Spygate perps, and purge the DOJ of deep state traitors like RR. He failed to do any of that....and his failure - his betrayal - is what made this whole four-year witch hunt/impeachment nightmare possible.
2) President Trump found out about Sessions recusal soon after confirmation and watched helplessly as RR took over as acting AG, Mueller got appointed as Special council and the witch hunt got underway. President Trump was powerless to stop any of this because the Democrats signaled that any attempt would be seen as obstruction, and considered impeachable. The Republicans in the Senate signaled that they would not support Sessions or RR being fired and would not confirm a replacement.
So heres what I cant reconcile: if we can accept that the President was politically powerless to change the course of events - why do we not accept that Sessions, a far less powerful man, was also powerless?
And years later when a new AG with some balls finally got in there, how come hes apparently powerless too?
I submit that if Sessions, or any other AG, recused or not recused, or Trump himself, had fired RR or otherwise attempted to block the witch hunt, Trump would have been impeached a lot sooner, and Senate Republicans, having warned him not to do it, would have hung him out to dry.
President Trump would never have submitted to that witch hunt if he wasnt absolutely convinced he had to - he explored every option and concluded that he had to let it run its course.
And THAT is the real reason Jeff Sessions failed to stop the witch hunt.
More to the point; that is why President Trump failed to stop the witch hunt, - why he never did a Nixon Saturday Night Massacre, never fired Sessions, RR or Mueller, never ordered Sessions to fire RR or Mueller, nor refused to cooperate with Mueller - he COULDNT stop the witch hunt - and neither could Sessions have.
I believe that Trump recognizing that he had to submit to the witch hunt and let it run its course - that decision is the reason he survived and will be a two term president - best decision he ever made.
I just think is sad that Jeff Sessions had to get thrown under the bus. President Trump is the one who decided not to stop the witch hunt - not Jeff Sessions. Maybe the truth will come out in a memoir some day.
Some of that would make sense. Except Sessions was a MASSIVE failure on all fronts:
*Didn’t indict any sanctuary City officials
* Didn’t support Kris Kobach’s vote fraud effort by forcing SecStates to provide data
*Didn’t bring one civil rights case against Antifa
If he had been doing these things, I might think you have a point. But he “recused” himself from ALL AG activity.
Ok - didnt know that
Plus, President Trump endorsing the other guy kind of blows my theory that Sessions was some kind of scape goat. Trump wouldnt do thats unless Sessions was guilty as charged.
Exactly. Bannon told me that. They were completely taken by surprise by Sessions’ betrayal.
If it was part of the “plan,” trust me, Steve Bannon would have been in on it. He was still Trump’s #1 advisor at the time.
So, I will concede the part about there being a plan.
But being a stubborn SOB, I still have some questions about the road not taken - I mean, there are a lot of assumptions being made about what would have happened if only Jeff Sessions had not betrayed the President.
1) If Jeff Sessions had not recused himself, would he have gotten confirmed?
2) If he had told Trump about plans to recuse, and withdrawn his nomination, would another AG have gotten confirmed without recusing?
3) If so, would that AG have followed through on blocking a witch hunt, indicting bad guys, and other things Sessions was supposed to do? Or would this better AG just be another Bill Barr?
4) If the better AG had gone on the warpath, blocking any investigation, firing and/or indicting bad guys, would those actions (arguably done on Trumps behalf) would the AG be seen as Trumps hatchet man? Would his actions become the smoking gun for Trumps impeachment - Trumps Saturday Night massacre?
5) If the RR/Mueller/DOJ investigation had been blocked, does that necessarily mean some other special prosecutor wouldnt have been appointed? The appointment of Mueller inside the DOJ satisfied the impeachment-hungry Democrats appetite for an investigation - partly because they knew RR and Mueller were anti-Trump and would hire a bunch of anti-Trump prosecutors - if it had been blocked or significantly altered by the AG, to be more fair to Trump, do we think the Democrats would have just said oh well and dropped it? Dont we have to assume the rabid Democrats would have made sure the witch hunt sprouted up somewhere else, in a different form?
In other words, Im willing to concede at this point that Trump blames Sessions for everything bad that happened, but Im not sure he is RIGHT to blame Sessions for everything.
We have no way of knowing whether the alternate reality (with a different AG) would have been better or worse for Trump - it could actually have gotten him impeached sooner - and without the rock solid support from Republicans in the House and Senate he could well have been removed.
The argument can be made that the rock solid support from Rs during the impeachment that was so crucial to Trumps exoneration was earned by his willingness to submit to the years long witch hunt, and coming up clean. If he had not submitted - would the Republicans have defended him so staunchly from charges of obstruction?
Sorry for the long rant
I think he was confirmed before he recused.
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