Trump would have cut him loose long ago if he wasn’t.
Working behind the scenes? Maybe yeah to #### Trump. The Deep State might have something over him or everyone was completely wrong about him because he hasn’t done Jack s***. Working behind the scenes. For what, 40 years? How long did it take Mueller to indict? Why can’t people just see something for what it is instead of deluding themselves. The only thing behind the scenes should be him. Very far behind
Agreed. Too many reasons to keep a low profile as these scandals are revealed.
Plus, as a good FReeper pointed out on another thread, there’s reason to believe that Sessions himself was a target of illegal surveillance, in which case he can’t be both victim and prosecutor.
I’m as upset as anyone about the level of corruption that has been revealed over the past year. But these wrongs have to be exposed in a measured fashion. Not only must legal niceties be observed, but the public has to gradually wake up to the reality that some of the nation’s most powerful institutions, are working to enslave them.
Pray. Daily. For Trump, Nunes, Grassley, Jordan, De Santis, and all the other white hats.
Bad as things are, I believe the Lord knows there’s more good in these United States than in any other nation.
The emergence, however belated, of a strong pushback against home-grown communism suggests God still protects His American people.
Sessions is NOT EVEN IN THE GAME. He’s far too frightened of the DOJ Deep State staffers to do anything other than their wishes.
I hope...
Sessions is recused. He is not doing anything behind the scenes. Rosenstein is running the DOJ.
Trump was likely told by his lawyers that firing Sessions would help Mueller build an obstruction case.
I’d bet that shortly after Mueller finishes his report Sessions and Rosenstein will be fired.
I hope I am right and they are playing a long con.
The next few months (maybe weeks) will tell.
Mueller will be pressured into investigating into how this Dossier was used against Trump. Which means the FBI and the rest.
Not working, not serving the president or the American people well. I don’t recall ever where we did not have a DOJ in charge of their department. Whether by Trump’s action/inaction, Sessions needs to step up and say no, this is not right. The DOJ/FBI need to begin cleaning themselves up, yet we see the trainwreck continuing and absolutely nothing from Sessions. He has never once said this is wrong, I’m going to fix, and here is how. No, nothing. Total disaster. He needs to go, now, immediately.
Oh, NAPPER. He has never been awake once. Consider over a year and we still have the day one disaster that Trump inherited. Worse really. At least Lynch had things under control. Sessions is napping and the corrupt DOJ/FBI are doing what they want, corrupt lies and coup. Shame on Sessions.
Without Sessions we would be knee deep in prosecutions of all the conspirators. With Sessions we have nothing but Mueller's BS witch hunt aimed at impeaching Trump. Sessions would rather let Trump get impeached than resign.
No firings, no leakers outed, no prosecutions, nothing.
Up until today, I would have said Trump was keeping Sessions to avoid a confirmation fight in the midst of tax reform, health care reform, and/or immigration reform legislation battles. Trump didn't want to give Democrats leverage to tie an upcoming AG confirmation with concessions to legislation.But now...
Tax reform is done; health care reform is stalled; Democrats are weakened on immigration reform due to their misguided government shut-down and their abhorrent State of the Union behavior; and Democrats are distracted by "the memo" and upcoming abuse of power revelations.
The time may be ripe for some Cabinet replacements. I'd rather see Trump and McConnell take on some Cabinet nomination fights now while there is a lull in legislation fights, a ramp-up in oversight committee investigations into Democrats, and especially before any expected SCOTUS seats open up.
That was right after the SOTU. Just in the past week, we saw the Grassly memo, the Schiff prank, some FBI departures, the Warner attempted collusion...
And still, McConnell makes nice to Schumer on a "compromise" budget deal!
So... I think Trump doesn't trust McConnell to manage a Cabinet confirmation fight, because McConnell is the kind of schoolyard bully who doesn't mind picking on his own but runs from fights with rivals.
Trump will have to live with the Cabinet he has, unless he's forced to fill a vacancy. McConnell is just too unreliable an ally.
-PJ
Sessions isn’t napping. He’s actively obstructing justice and our President by refusing to act as Attorney General, and refusing to quit.
If you can’t see how diabolical this play is, I can’t help you.
Winner, Loser, or Compromised...
I’m leaning towards the 3rd option.
I’m from NY, and Sessions was my adopted Senator. Needless to say, the current situation sucks.
You may be on to something. I would be very surprised if any indictments are handed down until the IG’s report comes out, creating a sizable fig leaf.
If the President were to fire Sessions, how would he get his replacement confirmed? The dems will scream and tantrum. The republicans fight him on everything.
People seem to expect hourly updates from DOJ every time new info comes out. I’d prefer a prosecutor who methodically and meticulously puts a strong case together without the whole world observing and critiquing. What I don’t want is a Show Boater who does a Schumer every time he sees a camera.
For the moment, I choose to trust President Trump’s judgement.
The meme that Sessions is working behind the scenes is a convenient fantasy.
Facts show Sessions is a wrecking ball by his inaction, his stupid public declarations, his abysmal testimony before the Congress, his bad decisions concerning Rosenstein, his multiple backstabbing of Trump, his multiple refusal to release DOJ documents... Not to mention the unnecessary hurdle to Trump’s agenda because of a Senate seat loss.
And what Sessions defenders have to show off for his defense? Oh they have nothing because he is working... behind the scenes. Talk about delusional circular logic!
Indictments that would come from from politically charged work by the DOJ would come from grand juries. Grand juries take time, and are inevitably leaked when the subjects are so involved in politics.
Time is relatively short (judicially speaking) before the 2018 elections. There’s no choice but some patience until then.
Sessions is a disaster. Robert Mueller’s fishing expedition would not even exist if Sessions had done the job he was hired to do instead of recusing himself.