Maybe the statement is in character. I think it is, it resembles other remarks he's made about various players. I don't think the remark affects Sessions' reputation at all, or certainly not much. Trump is executing what looks like a turnaround in business. People who come and go in turnarounds aren't harmed unless they are incompetent; and I doubt Sessions has any concern at all if the world decides he is "incompetent as AG." It's not like there are many of those jobs around, and Sessions is plenty competent. He'd make more money outside the government than inside.
-- This appears to be a move for another different purpose and I believe Jeff Sessions loves this country enough to take one for the team if needed. --
I wish I could see inside his head. He might take it personally, or he might have correctly assessed Trump months ago, and this outburst is inconsequential, even though it is in the nature of a public insult. Complicated business. Trump isn't the only person gifted to see what's going on.
There’s a lot that’s unusual about this interview, first of all being with the NYT which Trump has denounced numerous times as fake news. Secondly, Jeff Sessions was one of his earliest supporters and there is a very warm relationship there, if there were problems of this magnitude it wouldn’t be aired in a manner seemingly designed to humiliate and it certainly wouldn’t be via the NYT.
So, I’m very prone to thinking more is afoot than we know, and will wait and see. Sessions has dismayed me with the civil asset forfeiture and focusing on D.A.R.E. though. Of all the pressing matters, that’s just not one of them.
Well we have a ringside seat to see how it plays out. I hope you are right.
It meant a lot to Jeff Sessions to be confirmed and lay to rest the untrue accusations of his last confirmation hearing in 1986, when he was grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee after President Ronald Reagan nominated him as federal district judge for Alabama.