Posted on 01/27/2018 12:28:41 PM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
Gowdy just got through saying he doesn’t expect anyone should have to go to jail, while he was talking about the FISA memo. Gowdy damn sure cannot be trusted.
See my post #59....
“Roosterhead Gowdy Doody, King of Congressional Kabuki”
It fits. Very disappointing he is.
In 2015, on the first day of his campaign, Trump boisterously vowed to “end DACA immediately!”
Immigration hawks, like me, hoped that meant that Trump would force all illegal immigrants to self-deport.
Sadly, over the next three years, it has become increasingly obvious that Trump never intended to deport any illegal immigrants unless they had a felony conviction or gang affiliations.
Trump could have ended DACA on his first day as president with an Executive Order that instructed the Secretary of Homeland Security to enforce immigration law as written in the INA 1965.
No federal judge in the country would have even reviewed Trump's completely lawful Executive decision.
Instead, Trump did nothing about DACA for seven months.
Finally, in September 2017, Trump ordered Sessions to declare DACA unconstitutional and to instruct the DHS Secretary to end it.
In my opinion, both Trump and Sessions have always known that such a declaration will be rejected 9-0 in the Supreme Court.
Bottom Line...
Trump needed political camouflage to attract GOP immigration hawks.
So, Trump presciently defended himself from a “Read my lips, no new taxes” fiasco by creating an arbitrary legal challenge to DACA.
After the courts reject Trump's arbitrary legal challenge, Trump can go to the voters and say: “See, I tried to end DACA, but Left Wing judges stopped me!”
Early morning raids would suit me. Banks, head quarters, Clinton homes,
the whole enchilada.
Bottom line is that Sessions was not up to the job of DOJ/AG in the first place. A backwoods country lawyer may function well in the Senate, but not in the rough and tumble world of DC crime and corruption. Appointments to reward political loyalty rarely work out.
Maybe Mr. Magoo is not quite as blind as we graciously perceived him to be.....!?
“Sessions only does exactly what Trump wants him to do.”
I pray you are correct !
Yes, it is painfully obvious but needs to be said over and over in those “ their own survival” terms for the benefit of the folks who don’t get it. Thankfully you do.
I really wish he picked Rudy.
“If Donald Trump had followed the advice of people here on FreeRepublic he would have dropped out of the 2016 presidential campaign about 50 times in 2015-16.”
Ain’t that the truth.
“He was openly threatened by the GOP that if he fires Sessions, they’ll impeach him”
Sorry, I must missed that. When did this happen?
What is the matter with you posting this crap. Sessions isn’t doing that. It’s Rosenstein, Mueller, et. al. who’re running the show.
“There will be hell to pay if Trump fires Session”— Lindsay
Graham
“There will be hell to pay if Trump fires Mueller”— Lindsay ‘the ball gargler’ Graham
I think Lindsay speaks for the swamp and the party of bush, don’t you?
This chirping about how President Trump is furious about AG Sessions is all diversion. I believe the best tactic, when you are homing in on your target, is to create a diversion to keep them unprepared for the real strike. Make them think Sessions is fumbling the investigation so they think they are off the hook and never will be indicted. Then, when the times comes, doors will be blown off and the criminals will be taken with their pants/panties down. Patience and popcorn are our best friend.
The reason why rosenstein and mueller are running the show is because of that beady-eyed deep-state compromised rat bastard, Jeff Sessions.
Wouldn’t that be great, but dreams rarely ever come true.
Oh, the memories.
We Trump supporters vs the Cruzbots.
I was told what a stand up guy he was before he got the position. Which means they might have had some dirt on him (EVERYONE has something in their closet they want to keep there) or Mueller told him they ARE going to get Trump and he will be next if he doesn’t play ball. Either way, he should have been gone a long time ago as this WHOLE investigation mess if because of him
LS has been a staunch advocate for Jeff Sessions all along, and while I've tended to give some credence to his stance—that the AG is doing yeoman's work behind the scenes, and (properly) keeping a very tight lid on it—I am also reminded of LS's recent reporting on the story that several of President Trump's cabinet members have supposedly been "leveraged" (extorted), and are therefore being used to undermine him. This information is part of these "new" revelations—revelations which supposedly indicate how much worse things really are at DOJ/FBI/Deep State than what any of us can even imagine.
Now, we suddenly see DOJ trying to suppress the release of this memo, and consequently shielding Obama's FBI/DOJ—and apparently against the wishes of both the President and GOP Congressional leaders, such as Intelligence Committee Chairman Nunez. An obvious possibility presents itself—what if the Attorney General is one of these "leveraged" cabinet members? Why is Sessions' DOJ so fervently resisting the will of its own President on this memo issue?
Even cautious figures like Senator Chuck Grassley are scoffing at DOJ's suggestion that the release of this memo must be postponed due to some kind of ambiguous "national security" concerns.
As things currently stand, my default loyalty—and my gut sense of who can make an informed decision—lies with President Trump and Chairman Nunez. It seems to me like AG Sessions is showing too much institutional loyalty to the Justice Department—and it strikes me as somewhat "automatic", undeserved, and possibly even "blind".
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