he would have had to be a deep plant playing a long game.
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I think that is the most likely explanation. Sessions was basically a creature of the Washington Swamp. He spent decades there and no doubt has a lot of skeletons rattling around in his closet. Something to hide. So he was “manageable”.
But the most logical reason to me is that he signed on to Trump’s campaign early on, at the request of the Deep State. He probably didn’t think Trump could win so he went along with the scheme figuring he’d cash in on whatever quid pro quo he had with his Deep State handlers for his service.
But Trump won and now ole Jeff becomes an insurance policy; he was unexpectedly thrust into the role of informing on and thwarting Trump from the inside. Sessions did absolutely nothing to help Trump, but everything to hinder him. What does that tell you?
So inserting himself into the Trump campaign wound up becoming a long game. And unfortunately he played it quite well for the other side.
Re Sessions—deep Deep State Plant theory:
I’m open to the theory, but not absolutely convinced. Certainly that explains a lot. But, so does early Alzheimer’s.
On your side of the argument, its easy to believe that more than one insurance policy was instituted.