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.
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?
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I have little doubt that Trump knew that Sessions would have to recuse himself. Trump is making Sessions look as though he is not Trump’s lapdog, for some very important future mission or objective.
#422 add to the fact Sessions offered his resignation and POTUS turned him down
Trump’s criticisms of Sessions are all optics, from everything I can tell. We may not know the total picture yet. In fact, for sure we don’t.
I found a bit more about Sessions’ recusal but will post later.