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“....how, exactly, is Trump supposed to stop the Sessions, Rosenstein, Mueller juggernaut?”

If Trump wanted to stop Mueller’s investigation, or influence it, or redirect it, he would have compelled his AG and assistant AG to take an activist approach toward Mueller on his behalf. Sessions and Rosenstien would be acting in the role of Trump’s defense attorneys, as was the case with Obama’s DOJ.

I know, people argue that Trump has no control over his own DOJ because he can’t fire anyone without getting impeached, but there is a glaring inconsistency in that argument:

On the basis of political realities and threat of impeachment, there are many who give Trump the benifit of the doubt for not firing Sessions, or Rosenstien, or Mueller.

Yet, these same people express outrage at “Sleepy Sessions” for not doing his job. They blame Sessions’ recusal statement and his hands off policy toward the Mueller investigation, as if Sessions could have fired Mueller, or Rosenstien at any time but failed to do so because he is part of the deep state.

But it doesn’t make sense to hold Sessions accountable for not stopping the Mueller investigation, while maintaining that there is nothing the POTUS can do, because his hands are tied.

You can’t have it both ways. Either..

1) the Mueller investigation is a juggernaut so powerful that even the POTUS’s hands are tied, and he deserves the benefit of the doubt for not stopping it, based on the political realities he faces. If you accept this premise, then Sessions’ hands would be tied as well, and he deserves the same benifit of the doubt. All the arguments of Sessions being a deep state traitor, asleep at the switch, a swamp creature, a sell out, etc.. all fall apart when you accept that the Mueller juggernaut is unstoppable. Or...

2) The Mueller investigation is not a juggernaut - it is a joke - a political witch hunt that could have easily been stopped if Jeff Sessions had simply done his job rather than betray the POTUS by recusing himself. If you accept this premise though, and believe the investigation could have been stopped by Sessions, then why didn’t Trump himself put a stop to it?

I think the answer is that the Democrats and the Deep State committed numerous crimes attempting to frame Trump, and confident Hillary Clinton would win and cover their tracks, they set this whole Russian collusion smear job in motion.

Then, when Trump won, it was too late to stop it after the MSM had it - so they doubled down trying to get plan B -a quick impeachment. Then plan B failed too and they are stuck on a runaway train - they don’t know how to stop it. Everyone knows there was never any Trump/Russian collusion, and since Trump, Sessions, et al (wisely) never tried to interfere, they can’t get him on obstruction (plan C).

At this point I really believe there is so much dirt and corruption to be found on the Democrats and other deep state types in the intelligence community, that there is no downside for Trump to let them continue digging.

I really think Trump is in good shape and he knows it - he’s like the innocent man saying - go ahead play the survailence tape - because he knows he didn’t rob the store, and the tape will reveal who did.