Sessions is willing to play along with the coup because he wants his revenge against Trump, the country be damned.
Posted on 05/18/2018 11:40:08 AM PDT by xzins
Attorney Joe diGenova predicted that both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions' days are numbered at the Department of Justice during a telephone interview with Newsmax's Howie Carr Wednesday. DiGenova's claim came after the New York Times published a report titled "Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation". The report has been interpreted by many as an attempt by sources within the "Deep State" to cushion the blow of the imminent DOJ inspector general report, which is expected to be explosive.
In March, President Trump considered adding diGenova and his wife Victoria Toensing to his legal team, but conflicts of interest reportedly prevented him from hiring them. The attorney is still in contact with Trump, and told Carr that "the president has had it up to his scuppers with these clowns."
Buried deep within the NYT report is the bombshell revelation that Obama's FBI spied on the Trump campaign with covert "informants" (read "spies," or "moles") and electronic surveillance during the 2016 election. Also, contrary to the NYT's previous reporting, the article revealed that the spying did not begin with either Carter Page's interactions with Russians or George Papadopoulos's drunken conversation with Australian ambassador Alexander Downer in London. The spying began before that.
"Let me just tell you something," diGenova began. "My whole body just absolutely convulses when I listen to the idiots on national television who dare to suggest that those of us who believe that there was a brazen plot to exonerate Hillary Clinton illegally, and then if she lost to frame Donald Trump, to suggest that we are -- quote -- conspiracy theorists. I gladly say that I am. The only difference is I have evidence to substantiate the conspiracy."
He added: "If I were still a U.S. attorney, I would have an indictment of about nine different people in three days on the facts that are readily available on the public record."
DiGenova told Carr that Brennan, Comey, and Clapper, as well as six other people in the hierarchy of DOJ and FBI in the Obama administration, need to lawyer up. He predicted at the end of the interview that Brennan would have to face a grand jury. "Whether or not he ever goes to prison, I don't know, but this is for certain -- he should," DiGenova said, calling Obama's spy chief "the worst of the bunch" and "an evil man."
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"This notion in the NYT that they had some serious evidence against Trump!" diGenova scoffed. "What they're doing now is they are trying to protect the informant, the spy, the agent provocateur ... who was planting false evidence with two people, Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, so that they would repeat it and then the FBI could pretend to pick it up and then use it to get FISA warrants," he explained.
"This is so sinister, so treacherous, so inconsistent, and so un-American that any Democrat, who like this idiot Adam Schiff from California, who pretends to believe that the FBI was acting properly in this, is a moron. A purposeful moron!" diGenova exclaimed. "They're beyond the 'useful idiots' that the Communists used to use."
The former federal prosecutor had advice for the attorney general on how to handle the FBI sources who leaked to the Times.
"Now if Jeff Sessions is a good little boy and knows his job, what he does this afternoon is he grabs little Rod Rosenstein -- Frankenstein's monster -- by the scruff of the neck, and he says, 'look you S.O.B., you get a frickin' grand jury right now and get a subpoena to everybody at the senior levels of the FBI and former senior FBI officials, put them in the grand jury and you ask them, who talked to the New York Times?'" he advised. "That's what you do if you're a real cop -- and I don't think Sessions is," he added.
DiGenova explained that the whole point of the Comey/Clapper/Brennan operation was to ruin Trump's presidential bid and if that failed, to ruin his presidency. He expressed frustration that Sessions has been unable to see through what he called "a coup d'etat."
"If he can't see that, he's not competent to be attorney general!" he exclaimed. "He hasn't recused himself from understanding that a presidency is being assaulted illegitimately by Mueller and by current and former people in the FBI and the intelligence community."
DiGenova warned that Sessions is on thin ice with the president and his days may be numbered. "If it comes out that Jeff Sessions has not authorized a grand jury into all those unmaskings, all those leaks, ... and Ben Rhodes and John Brennan and James Clapper have not been authorized for subpoenas, ... if he has not authorized that, he's going to be fired," he predicted.
The reason he knew that, DiGenova said, was that both Rosenstein and Sessions had been to the White House twice in the past two weeks to meet with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, and they were told their jobs were "not secure."
"The president has had it up to his scuppers with these clowns and he has every right in the world to be furious with the incompetence of the Department of Justice under Rosenstein and Sessions," diGenova explained, adding, "I have been told that by people who know."
He was visiting the old country and explaining to his wife how Sicilian law was so corrupt compared to the U.S...
If some Republican decides to challenge Trump in the 2020 primaries, I wonder who Levin will support.
I’d like to think Trump would go unchallenged, but with the NeverTrumpers out there, who the heck knows.
It was the height of Clinton antics, so I doubt it!!!
“It doesn’t seem to take and, indeed, it nine time out of ten blows back on them. Truth be told, I am amazed at the
President seems to rise above it...”
Trump is extraordinary but the swamp has showed no sign of letting up. They just redouble their efforts. They won’t let up until people start going to prison.
“Trust Sessions” “Trust the plan”
That strategy has worked for the Deep State and no one else.
Scupper-it’s a hole in the side of a ship to carry water overboard from the deck.
I just looked that up. I liked it, too.
And what do you think it's saying when it speaks?
‘That’s he an awesome American patriot who single-handedly stopped Shamnesty.’
Sessions had zero role in stopping amnesty.
Zero.
Well then, I guess we should all just give up.
Off to Walmart now.
McCabe was given a criminal referral a month ago.
The IG report regarding McCabe stated he lied 4 times.
3 times under oath
When is the “party” for McCabe going to start?
Who leaked?
A staffer. I am sure they all had aides in the meeting taking notes, or they later conveyed what happened afterward to their aides.
All these guys got aides.
It’s like they can’t actually do anything themselves.
Get on with it, then...
If he had been vaguely competent at fighting the executive order battles in the courts, or the immigration battles, or anything, then it would sure help to believe he was just laying low on the collusion thing.
As it is, he couldn’t get courts to agree that the president has the authority to set policy for preventing dangerous people from entering the country.
He couldn’t even win the argument that a new president, Trump, is bound by a previous president’s executive order.
If he’s playing dumb, he is doing a GREAT job!
Let us pray.
Victoria for Atty Gen and Joe to run FBI ... I can dream, anyway.
Amen
Yippee ki-oh! Let the firings begin! Unless there’s the outside chance that Sessions has been working behind the scenes to catch them all...and since there are no leaks to that effect, and “no leaks” would be extremely rare in Washington, he needs to go. MONTHS ago. On the other hand, the deep state, Obama, and Hillary and her sycophants did all this, without leaks, (except wikileaks, which the leftist complicit MSM refused to report, so other than infuriating and frustrating conservatives, it didn’t accomplish what it SHOULD have). There’s one of the key components -— the totally corrupt MSM.
How is it that conservative freedom of speech can be limited, but the freedom of the press to consort and lie, cannot? Should they be allowed to publish lies? Treading on thin ice here, I know.
Sessions is willing to play along with the coup because he wants his revenge against Trump, the country be damned.
Which is why the hypothesis advanced by LS and others does seem to carry some validity....
If he fires them before the midterms the crats and mediots will use it as a campaign weapon, a false narrative about a “constitutional crisis.”
If he waits until after the election if the GOP holds both houses he can do whatever he wants with no political risk. If they lose both houses he might as well fire them anyway, as his political capital won’t matter, although I doubt this will happen.
But believe me, if he fires them before the election it will increase the chance that the GOP will lose both chambers and he will be at greater risk of impeachment. Yes, there are risks in waiting six months, but they are not as great as the risks if he were to fire them now.
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