From what everyone has told me, including Bannon, though, Sessions totally betrayed Trump by not even talking to him about the recusal. he blindsided him, and the worst part was he put Rat Rosenstein in charge of Mulehead, and RR expanded the investigation to get Trump.
Yep, he was an early Trump backer and he was rewarded. But he failed.
Here are the two narratives I just can’t 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 here’s what I can’t 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 he’s 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 wasn’t 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 COULDN’T 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.