Louie Gohmert ripped Sessions a new one the other day in the House Judiciary Committee:
“It seems like, to me, you got mistreated a little bit,” Representative Louie Gohmert, of Texas, began.
Then he asked Sessions whether, in deciding earlier this year to recuse himself—presumably, this was a reference to Sessions’s recusal from the investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election, though one never knows with Gohmert—he had consulted with his deputy, Rod Rosenstein. Sessions seemed unsure of how much he should say about internal deliberations, and also of where Gohmert was heading. Gohmert interrupted to read a string of e-mail addresses, at least one ending in .ru, and brandished a filing in a 2015 case involving money laundering and an executive at a Russian-state-linked, uranium-exporting company called Tenex. One of the names on the document, filed in a federal court in Maryland, was that of Rosenstein, who was then a U.S. attorney in that state. “So you were not aware that Rosenstein had had this prior dealing with Russian uranium before you recused yourself, had you?” As Sessions tried to get Gohmert to clarify, the congressman continued, “You were not aware of the Mueller-Comey investigation into Russian uranium, were you, before you recused yourself?”
“Nuh—ah,” Sessions began, with a nervous laugh, “I don’t think so.” Then he brightened, and said more definitely, “No, I was not, of course, I wasn’t in the Department of Justice.” Gohmert’s point seemed to be that Sessions had somehow been tricked into the recusal. “It sure stinks to high heaven, and it doesn’t appear to me they ought to be involved in investigating,” Gohmert said, as, at last, his time expired. Sessions, before the next questioner began, took a moment to try to sort all that out...
Sessions is a good and honorable person . But he is feckless as AG and needs to go. Trump know this but remembers his campaign loyalty. sessions was the only senator to endorse and Trump honors that. but push is coming to shove after a year of this nothingness.
Thanks for posting. I didn’t catch that part of the hearing. However, I do recall from Sessions, words to the effect that Rod Rosenstein was an upright district attorney, and is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being Sessions has ever known.