Imho the reason Trump is villifying Sessions in a very uncharateristic manner is optics for derps. Why? The only reason I can think is becausce Sessions has another role and needs to appear not to be Trump’s lapdog. Or if Sessions does become the Senator, he also does not look like Trump’s lapdog and makes his “own decisions”.
Q+ praised Sessions and thanked him for his sacrfices. It makes absolutely not sense that Trump would praise him then, and villify him now, other than fog of war for the derps.
Agreed.
I like that “fog of war” analogy LJ. Seems pretty perfect to me.
I needed something to cement my thought about AG Sessions in “the plan” and the negative statements made about him. You nailed it. Thanks.
I trust Trump and Sessions.
Misinformation and misdirection are necessary.
Thanks, my cognitive dissonance feels better now ;-)
Sessions occupies a special niche, vs any other candidate, because the things I listed and more are all directly traceable to decisions he made as AG, so it makes sense that Trump should respond differently to him. I’ve wondered if there is a specific reason Trump doesn’t want Sessions in the Senate, but haven’t thought of any.
Regarding “trust”, I don’t think Potus has ever said that Sessions lied to him or did anything that most would consider a betrayal of trust, only that he recused himself without telling Trump in advance, which Sessions has explained his reasons for. I got called a near idiot the other day when I pointed out Trump could have fired him at any time, including well before Mueller even got rolling, yet he did not do so. What Sessions did by recusing himself was necessary, based on his understanding of the law, and was not done to spite Trump or in violation of a promise not to do so. But if Trump did in fact consider this a violation of trust, why would he have kept an untrustworthy person in such an important job for so long? Trump did not say other staff members “can’t be trusted” when they left the administration, even when there was ample evidence they were in fact untrustworthy (like Omarosa and her secret recordings).
Well, I’ll content myself with the “fog of war” explanation for now, I think.