Posted on 07/25/2017 6:57:00 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Sessions is not going anywhere.
This is going to turn into a MASTERSTROKE by Trump.
Start popping your popcorn, FReepers!
That’s my view also.
I think this may be “political aikido” on Trump’s part.
One of the recent reports on Bloomberg News raised a big red flag with me. They reported that banks and lenders associated with a 2008 Trump real estate deal in Florida were getting requests for information from the special counsel's office, but the report didn't name a single bank or lender that had received such a request. That's the kind of story that has "fake news based on a source who wants to deliberately mislead the public" written all over it.
Our corrupt media opposition is concealing or minimizing the criminal activity engaged by the previous administration by using the equation device. Usually done by charging collusion. Which is designed to reduce election turnout. The goal is to generate a “Both are crooks attitude. So why vote ?”
Can anyone at the WH STFU?
Sessions is not going anywhere.
This is going to turn into a MASTERSTROKE by Trump.
Start popping your popcorn, FReepers!
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I’m ready!
Can you imagine the political (and probably legal) blow-back if the first thing out of the gate Sessions did was to go after Hillary and Obama's senior people? If that had happened, and if Trump and Sessions had appeared to be working in concert on that, then the whole thing would have appeared to be a political vendetta and would have blown up in their faces.
Sessions is now earning a reputation as being independent from Trump and not playing politics. The swamp creatures are lining up to endorse him because they're hoping he'll not do things that Trump wants him to do.
This impression will make it much easier for Sessions to move forward on nailing some of these very powerful people when the time's right.
It would be interesting, if you are correct.
Agreed. All inference from the size of Mueller's army and their expertise, I don't see Mueller's army as specializing in election law, and election law would be where election crimes are committed, e.g., "collusion with the Russians" whatever the heck that means. The expertise of Mueller's army is heavy on white collar crime.
I have not seen reports of response to subpoena or similar, other than Deutsche Bank expects subpoenas over Trump-Russia investigation. I don't see that as having any relation to the campaign. None at all.
On Scaramucci's remark, I went looking for the root of the story. This is as close as I got so far.
When asked if it's clear that Trump wants Sessions out of the White House, he told Hewitt "you're probably right," ultimately confirming the tension between the two is not getting any better."I have an enormous amount of respect for the Attorney General, but I do know the president pretty well," Scaramucci said, "and if there's this level of tension in the relationship that, that's public, you're probably right."
Although he added he didn't want to speak for the President on this, his next question to Hewitt was telling: "Are you available to be the Attorney General?"
I guess that's not a leak. He can't very well undercut the gist of Trump's tweets, no matter what. The tweets speak for themselves, etc. is the only stand WH spox ought to be taking.
Maybe that's exactly the intended result.
I learned a lot about Trump's management style while reading a fascinating account of the coaching methods used by the legendary Herb Brooks when he led the U.S. hockey team to its improbable "Miracle on Ice" gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
The similarities between Herb Brooks and Donald Trump are uncanny, and it's worth remembering one story in particular ...
Brooks knew that the key to the team's success was to get them to exceed their own expectations of themselves, and he did it by devising a plan that would drive most of the players to despise him even while they played hard. He wasn't shy about being manipulative with the players, and in one case he enlisted the help of one of the players to play out a "stage act" of sorts that ran for six months in late 1979 while they trained and prepared for the 1980 Olympics.
The player was a guy named Jack O'Callahan, a defenseman on the team who was the toughest and most highly respected player among his teammates dating back to his days as a top collegiate player at Boston University. Brooks knew that he could keep the players motivated even under severe duress if he could keep them inspired by O'Callahan, so he sat down with O'Callahan early in training camp and devised a plan with him.
He basically said to him:
"If I yell at you and berate you and humiliate you and I call you 'O-Cee' (his nickname), then you will know that I'm only doing it to humiliate you in front of your teammates so they'll accept the same hard-ass approach when I do it with THEM. If they see you taking this abuse and using it as motivation to work harder, then they will do the same."
"If I yell at you and berate you and humiliate you and I call you 'Jack,' that means I really want you to correct or improve something that applies only to YOU."
The man was probably nuts, but he was an absolute genius when it came to laying out a plan for reaching a goal -- and executing it to perfection.
I think we are seeing a lot of this unfolding now with President Trump.
I’m hoping that is the game. Meanwhile, the feds have done a lot of investigating (and everybody thinks that’s a good thing because “they’re gonna get Trump”) and perhaps in a short while we will all learn that these investigations have “raised questions” about Hillary and Obama’s senior people.
I’m not getting my hopes up, but this is at least a possibility.
I believe this whole brew ha ha over Sessions is a manufactured distraction for the media by Trump to get them LOOKING in this direction while HE has something else going on behind the scenes that the media is NOT paying attention to!!! It is what I have stated above OR Trump is SO PISSED about his son and Kushner being drug down this rabbit hole that his disappointment in Sessions IS overwhelming him!!!
That would likely be legitimate grounds for Sessions (not Rosenstein) to re-insert himself into the special counsel's activities.
I am not going to assess Trump’s success at this point. I will consider what is accomplished over 4 years.
No thanks. The last thing I’m interested in is Reddit. “Invaluable education” and Reddit do not belong in the same conversation.
How old are you?
The article says otherwise. Trump would be justified in being livid if Mueller expands his investigation to events that are not related to the campaign.
-- That would likely be legitimate grounds for Sessions (not Rosenstein) to re-insert himself into the special counsel's activities. --
The way I see it, it's up to Rosenstein to regulate Mueller's jurisdiction. Any direct contact with Mueller, from Sessions, is problematic. Sessions can't (or shouldn't) directly insert himself into Mueller's house. What he does is make Rosenstein do it, and answer for it. And if he is not satisfied with it, Sessions can fire Rosenstein for abdicating DoJ jurisdiction.
How about just moving Sessions to head deportations at DHS along with Tom Tancredo?
I respect your analysis but Trump’s personnel style still rubs me the wrong way.
If Mueller starts wandering down a road that has nothing to do with the 2016 election, then Sessions' recusal is not relevant to the matter at hand and he would be perfectly within his authority to deal directly with Mueller on that particular matter. That's the way I see it.
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