Sessions is a good man, has a good image to voters. Shelby is similar. BUT ... US Senators are Senators of corporations, of deep pockets, because, without $$$ sponsorship, they don’t survive in DC. I know, I sat down with Packwood and saw firsthand how they operate.
US Senators learn to go along to get along. Sessions is no different.
Sessions voted for the secret Iran Nuclear Deal. He did that to preserve his standing and friendships in the US Senate. This is important to note, very important. Let’s emphasize in all caps:
SESSI0NS HAS A L0T 0F FRIENDS IN THE US SENATE.
Understanding the above explains everything including the President’s actions and responses around Sessions.
The Senate will protect itself first. Every Senator is installed by large corporations. Their ‘D’ and ‘R’ labels are secondary to the established order.
P0TUS could not fire Sessions because McConnell would not have the votes to confirm who P0TUS wanted to replace Sessions with.
This caused the President great frustration. But the President is a measured, practical man of great perseverance. So he dealt with Sessions in a different manner. If Sessions had been a CE0 and not a US Senator, Sessions would have been fired much sooner.
Conservatives in the House called for Sessions impeachment.
Sessions would not hand over Fast & Furious documents:
https://twitter.com/jasoninthehouse/status/969953527996002306?lang=en
Sessions would protect his friends in the Senate at all costs.
According to Chaffetz’z interview with Sessions, Sessions would not prosecute Clinton even as P0TUS wanted him to do.
The President needed the US Senate. Anything he might do to Sessions would bring immediate condemnation from the body which held all power to confirm or deny P0TUS’s judicial picks. This created an impasse, a standoff with Sessions in the middle.
The President poured tons of energy into winning the Senate in 2018. Q posted the Senate was the target. The President said the same at CPAC and even pointed out that two G0P ‘bad’ Senators stepped down/were forced out. And still he won it for candidates that supported his direction.
The President held off firing Sessions until he had a Senate that would work with him. Flake, Corker, and others would defeat the President’s judicial picks. Firing Sessions would cause hostility and fighting in the Senate. But minutes after the election assured the President that he had won the Senate with the kind of people he could work with, he fired Sessions.
And he gave Sessions a gratuitous send-off because he needed the Senate’s good graces in order to have the votes for Barr. Whittaker was a temp stand-in to give Mueller notice and to take stock of which US Attorneys were capable to get the Clintons.
Sessions was not a White Hat, he was not a Black Hat, he was’misplaced’.
Rosenstein and Mueller are Clintonites. They are Black Hats by association. They are Swamp.
Sessions is a good man, has a good image to voters. Shelby is similar. BUT ... US Senators are Senators of corporations, of deep pockets, because, without $$$ sponsorship, they don’t survive in DC. I know, I sat down with Packwood and saw firsthand how they operate....
SESSI0NS HAS A L0T 0F FRIENDS IN THE US SENATE.
Understanding the above explains everything including the President’s actions and responses around Sessions.
The Senate will protect itself first. Every Senator is installed by large corporations. Their ‘D’ and ‘R’ labels are secondary to the established order.
P0TUS could not fire Sessions because McConnell would not have the votes to confirm who P0TUS wanted to replace Sessions with....
The President needed the US Senate. Anything he might do to Sessions would bring immediate condemnation from the body which held all power to confirm or deny P0TUS’s judicial picks. This created an impasse, a standoff with Sessions in the middle....
The President held off firing Sessions until he had a Senate that would work with him. Flake, Corker, and others would defeat the President’s judicial picks. Firing Sessions would cause hostility and fighting in the Senate. But minutes after the election assured the President that he had won the Senate with the kind of people he could work with, he fired Sessions.
And he gave Sessions a gratuitous send-off because he needed the Senate’s good graces in order to have the votes for Barr. Whittaker was a temp stand-in to give Mueller notice and to take stock of which US Attorneys were capable to get the Clintons.
Sessions was not a White Hat, he was not a Black Hat, he was’misplaced’.
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MOST interesting take on Sessions. He was MISPLACED.
Sessions was not a White Hat, he was not a Black Hat, he was’misplaced’.
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Interesting take. It happens sometimes that a person is simply not the right fit - square peg/round socket. Good for one job, but not another.
I just searched for more than 15 minutes trying to find the Senate votes on the Iran deal. It was a very complicated piece of nastiness with more than one vote (voting for cloture/and various aspects that are tangled and confusing) and I could find nothing at all that indicated Sessions voted for it. I did find the below, and other indications that he was opposed. Could you post your source that Sessions voted for it?
https://www.al.com/news/2015/09/sessions_on_iran_deal_i_think.html
Sessions on Iran deal: ‘I think it’s a mistake’
Posted Sep 17, 2015
In indicating his disapproval for the pending nuclear agreement between the United States, Iran and four other countries, U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., called for a broader strategy to confront Islamic extremism in the Middle East during a speech Wednesday from the Senate floor.
“I think it’s a mistake. I’m going to vote ‘no,’” Sessions said of the agreement, saying that if such a deal is consummated, “it will create instability even more so in the Middle East and can alarmingly lead to the proliferation of nuclear weapons in multiple nations in the Middle East.”
Sessions wouldn’t give the Fast and Furious docs to Chaffetz no doubt for a very good reason. Ongoing investigations don’t need leakers, for instance. He basically didn’t like Trump.
Here’s a statement Chaffetz made to Sheryl Atkisson when he quit his House position in the summer of 2018:
Chaffetz indicated he was disappointed with the Trump administration. He’d hoped a Republican administration would make completing the Oversight Committee’s ongoing investigations easier but found he was receiving the same pushback, red tape, and stonewalling he’d experienced from the Obama administration.
The outgoing Congressman noted a particular frustration with the Justice Department.
“The reality is, sadly, I don’t see much difference between the Trump administration and the Obama administration. I thought there would be this, these floodgates would open up with all the documents we wanted from the Department of State, the Department of Justice, the Pentagon. In many ways, it’s almost worse because we’re getting nothing, and that’s terribly frustrating and with all due respect, the Attorney General has not changed at all. I find him to be worse than what I saw with Loretta Lynch in terms of releasing documents and making things available. I just, that’s my experience, and that’s not what I expected.”
“I mean, we have been in court trying to pry those documents out of the Department of Justice and still to this day, they will not give us those documents. And at the State Department, nothing. Stone cold silence.”