One note of clarification. No, Trump is not free to work his PR magic. He is being investigated and has been for the past year. That. Is. The. Problem.
Look at it this way. You’re a great driver and you’ve never had a ticket. People start sliming you for being a dangerous driver. You point to your record and tell them to buzz off. The gossip soon dies.
Now suppose you’re being never-endingly investigated for causing a huge, horrible accident. The police haven’t said you’re guilty but they haven’t said you’re innocent. They just investigate, investigate, investigate.
People accuse you of being a dangerous driver. You tell them you’re innocent. They point to the extremely serious ongoing investigation, and the accusations take on a life of their own.
That’s what Sessions has done to Trump. Jeff should have resigned in shame and disgrace. He is the problem.
“Look at it this way. You’re a great driver and you’ve never had a ticket. People start sliming you for being a dangerous driver. You point to your record and tell them to buzz off. The gossip soon dies.”
So let’s explore your analogy: Trump is the good driver. The people wrongly sliming him as a “dangerous” driver are the MSM. The police perpetually investigating the driver for a huge, horrible accident - that’s Mueller and other political enemies in the deep state, the intelligence community, the DNC, and the impeach Trump crowd in congress, who conspired to frame him and who demanded the special investigation.
So where is Sessions in your analogy? You seem to think he’s part of the “dirty cops” who are framing the innocent driver, maybe the dirty chief of police. I say more likely Sessions is the innocent driver’s public defender who has not been able to get the charges dropped.
Instead of making a public statement that all the cops are dirty and moving to have the case dismissed, the public defender (Sessions) appears to be looking to strike a deal to keep his client out of jail - namely, we don’t charge you with being dirty cops and you let my client off for time served (enduring a year and a half of witch hunt).
The drivers close friends and family (his supporters - the deplorables) are livid at the idea of a deal - they want to go to trial and expose the dirty cops and bring down the whole corrupt police force (go after the Clintons etc).
Look, it sucks Trump is being investigated by dirty cops and being framed for crimes that he didn’t commit. But that’s not happening because Sessions is a sucky AG - it’s happening because they control DC and Trump declared war on them! This is “witch hunt” is the DC swamp fighting for their lives against a man who they see literally as being the wicked witch, hitler, the antichrist, and far worse, all wrapped up in one.
I just don’t see how you can think the witch hunt could have been avoided by a stronger AG.
As far as I’m concerned, this year plus witch hunt is only the beginning - brace yourself for far worse. This was never going to be easy - they were never going to “buzz off”.