1) I tend to be critical of Sessions.
2) Trump knows that he can fire Sessions at any time.
3) Trump hasn’t fired Sessions yet.
4) Trump and his staff are being extremely public about criticizing Sessions.
Conclusion: I think President Trump and AG Sessions may be playing an extremely deep game here. This could all be strategery.
Sometimes things are what they seem. I think the President wants Sessions out, he's making it clear by publicly humiliating him that he wants Sessions to resign, and Sessions - for whatever reason - is going to force Trump to fire him.
Yup....That’s what I wrote yesterday.
I hope that you are right.
Otherwise, this seems to be a very misguided approach to whatever Trump is seeking related to the Sessions situation.
I mentioned in another Thread that Sessions needs to take one for the team, and I would like to see Cruz as the AG.
So my best case scenario is to appoint Cruz as Deputy AG, get him confirmed thru congress. Sessions resigns, Cruz is acting AG and nominated by Trump as the AG.
win win for Trump/Cruz, and lose for that loser Sessions that F’d Trump by recusing himself.
"It's extremely unfair, and that’s a mild word, to the president. So he recuses himself. I then end up with a second man [Rosenstein], who’s a deputy. Who is he? And Jeff hardly knew. He’s from Baltimore."
That statement is either deliberately misleading or is totally incoherent in light of the following:
1. President Donald Trump nominated Rod Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General in January. Up to that point, he was serving as the U.S. Attorney for the Maryland District -- a post he held since his appointment by George W. Bush in 2007.
2. Rosenstein was eventually confirmed for this post in late April.
3. While this was all going on (from January to April), Rosenstein remained in his U.S. Attorney post in Maryland and was included in the group of 46 U.S. Attorneys whose resignations Jeff Sessions demanded in early March. President Trump refused to accept his resignation.
Does anyone here really think President Trump doesn't know who Rod Rosenstein was? LMAO.
In light of these comments that are clearly idiotic, I'd say President Trump is deliberately masking what is really going on here in terms of AG Sessions.
It's the only reason that explains why Sessions hasn't resigned.
Would be fantastic if so....especially if it outs the leakers and spies and other swamp people.
My gut tells me the same thing, ClearCase_guy. Trump is a strategic player who fools his enemies into thinking that he’s wounded and flailing, only to run headlong into his traps. And they never learn. Time will tell if that’s the case here.
I heard a rumor that something big is coming on Thursday. I hope it turns out to be Sessions indicting and refering for prosecution a dozen or so Clintons, Obamas, Podestas, et al.
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.
I agree. This is just too public not to be more to it. Perhaps they agreed for Sessions to fire Mueller and then resign. Blood is off Trump’s hands since he’s “not getting along with Sessions and is not pleased with his performance”.