So why didn’t Sessions do his job, as Trump urged, instead of turning it over to career DOJ personnel like Rosenstein, and Mueller to prosecute Trump? Was Sessions blackmailed, complicit, or simply ignorant? It’s one of the last few things left to be determined.
Sessions didn’t do his job.
He ‘recused’ himself and ducked responsibility.
Sessions thought he could sneak-in during the primary and become another Romney.
“Trust Sessions”.
The Qballs are still clinging to that particular bit of idiocy.
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Trump nails it. Helps out Sessions and Sessions almost ruins his presidency.
Trump should not have hired Wray either. He should replace Wray with Flynn.
Sessions was afraid of the Deep State. He was afraid that they would make something up about him.
So he took the cowards way out, he recused himself.
I’m not as convince of that as the President.
Barr gave Rosenstein a nice retirement party and has refused to prosecute McCabe.
Sessions excuse for “recusal” was absolutely flimsy, and it was done at the height of the Russia-media frenzy. I think one of his reasons was something like he was at a cocktail party and spoke to the Russian Ambassador. And lo-and-behold, his recusal turned everything Russia over to Rosenstein and the absolutely corrupt Mueller to attempt a coup.
To me it smacks of conspiracy and treason. Even if he was “blackmailed” he should have kept his reputation and honor in tact and refused the AG job. Instead, he made himself complicit. And I find it hard to believe he is simply that stupid. Sessions can NOT be forgiven for this.
PDJT nominated Sessions and left him in the job for a long time? He could have, and should have, fired Sessions the minute Sessions refused himself.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda.
At the end of the day the buck stops at Trump’s desk.
Some of his early appointments were utter disasters and he has no one to blame but himself.
But he has learned. He’s done much better with his personell decisions lately.
Trust the plan.
Jeff Sessions was the insurance policy
Does Q know?
I’m imagining the enraged Hitler clip...
Sessions loved the Department of Justice as an institution and trusted its vaunted "career professionals," of which he was once one as a young lawyer. Thus, as AG, Sessions was naturally inclined to let himself be led by the nose, taking resumes and recommendations at face value and making key personnel choices as if he a new dean selecting bright and congenial staff for a prestigious law school that had a few openings.
Much more was needed though. Due to the intense and unprincipled opposition to Trump, his choice as AG would be called upon to seize, occupy, and govern choice bureaucratic territory held by his enemies. Doing so would require a constant battle. Sessions though was temperamentally incapable of such a role, and especially so after the brutal treatment dished out during the fight over his confirmation.
Instead of a loyal and resolute AG who was a reformer with a street fighter's realism and toughness, in Sessions, Trump got a clueless fuddy-duddy who entered office suffering a form of PTSD after the rough handling he got from Trump's enemies during Senate confirmation. Instead of a pit bull fighting to advance the Trump administration's interests and policies, in AG Jeff Sessions, Trump got an old, whipped dog desperate for affection, peace, and comfort.
Under easier and better circumstances, Sessions could have been a fine AG. Or, if Trump had sent Sessions over to the DOJ with a phalanx of tough political combatants authorized and determined to clean house, Sessions might have made it through a term as reasonably good AG. Yet that was not to be, and Sessions failed as AG due to his inadequacies.
Under Sessions, Rosenstein and other villains in the DOJ smiled to his face, snickered behind his back, and broke the law as they intrigued to use the FBI and the DOJ to bring down a President. Trump had good reason to be disappointed and furious with Sessions, and, I suspect, sad for him as well.