Posted on 07/25/2017 7:33:44 PM PDT by Bratch
When President Trump made his initial remarks reflecting disappointment in Attorney General Jeff Sessions it was initially unnerving. The subsequent fallout from the public criticism has united the NeverTrump crowd, Cruzbots and professionally GOPe, to defend the honor of the much beloved former Senator. The opportunity to bash Trump is simply an ancillary benefit.
Conversely, the MAGA community has largely portrayed the rift as if the Presidential critique was part of a larger strategy between the President and Attorney General. If we wait long enough some mysterious master plan will eventually to be discovered.
However, the subsequent POTUS tweets and comments do not indicate any joint strategy at all. What they do actually show is a genuine disappointment and frustration with the focus of Jeff Sessions; and the cabinet member’s apparent unwillingness to confront the corruption within the DOJ and by extension the larger DC swamp.
It is not accidental the frustration and disappointment surface as the various opposition groups to the Trump presidency begin to target the entire Trump family. Despite some opinion to the contrary, Donald Trump does have a nuclear trigger point; target his family and you’ll find it quick. Just ask anyone who has known him for any substantive amount of time.
President Trump affirms his ‘confidence’ in Jeff Sessions’ ability to do the swamp draining and simultaneously expresses ‘disappointment’ that AG Sessions chooses not to. Confidence and disappointment are not mutually exclusive sentiments.
Under the former administration the Department of Justice was weaponized politically and legally by the executive branch against ordinary American citizens. A political example is the joint efforts between the DOJ and IRS to target political opposition, the Tea Party and organizations like True the Vote.
The legal examples of DOJ weaponization extend from “Fast and Furious” gun running ops to the targeting of the manufacturer of Gibson Guitar, and to legal cases involving local police departments like Ferguson Missouri, Baltimore Maryland and individuals like George Zimmerman. These are only a few examples; there are many more.
Attorneys’ General Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder did not participate in these examples alone. Under their guidance there exists a myriad of corrupt officials, black hats within the DOJ, who participated in all aspects of the weaponization.
This underlying corrupt architecture is what Jeff Sessions is choosing to ignore. This is the source of Trump’s frustration and disappointment. These deep state black hats within the DOJ are transparently not being confronted; meanwhile AG Sessions is running around the country with Rod Rosenstein holding pressers and proclaiming victories.
Yes, it’s great to finally have a law enforcement agenda with border policy, drug enforcement, and the capture of criminal enterprises with pedophile rings and human trafficking. Yes, all of that is great. However, there’s a larger issue at DOJ central where the refusal to confront the corrupt aspects within the organization only serves to fuel and enable the continuance of a corrupt swamp in Washington DC.
The corrupt institutional system that AG Sessions is apparently refusing to confront, are now targeting the personal family of the presidency. What usefulness is there in winning the small stuff if Sessions is refusing to confront the larger and more dangerous systemic corruption.
President Trump is an existential threat to the entire apparatus of the DC swamp. And so far AG Sessions appears content to ignore, or at best is prioritizing confrontation with the swamp at a much lower level of importance.
The commentary by President Trump should be considered against the totality of this backdrop. Winter is here; the time for confrontation is now. Mild mannerisms are not a valuable skill-set when engaged in epic confrontation. President Trump was not elected to nibble around the edges nor does his possess such a tempered disposition toward half-measures leaving the effort to someone else.
As a consequence, President Trump won’t let up on the pressure being applied to Jeff Sessions until the Attorney General agrees to clean his own house (and neighborhood) before journeying off to distant needs and righteous law enforcement endeavors. The most important battle is in Washington DC. So long as Sessions ignores this issue the pressure will remain.
Eventually, if the historic track repeats, Jeff Sessions will tender his resignation and an important heart-to-heart meeting of purpose will follow.
Whether that resignation is accepted or not will be entirely dependent on the disposition and willingness of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to confront the corrupt enterprise that has encircled Washington DC and metastasized its bile.
The Attorney General might not actually possess the skills, the instincts, to lead that disinfecting endeavor; or he might not desire to participate in an epic battle of such a politically adversarial nature.
Winter is here.
The choice will ultimately be his.
That’s ehere I fall on the DoJ. If Sessions is having trouble getting control, Trump needs to get Sessions some help to ID a plan and get some fire power in there to dlay the beast.
Privately.
Who knows maybe it adds insult to Sessions injury. Trump saying to Sessions, I dislike so much how this SC thing and your recusal has gone down, I am gonna send you a message of disgust through a medium I also disgust. I could see me doing that, disgust on top of disgust.
Does Sessions even come to work?
If he does come to work does he spend the day dozing in his office?
He is a prime example of why senators do not make good managers or executives.
They are accustomed to going through the motions, dragging action out to fill all the available time (and more), referring issues to committees, and ordering staff reports.
But they are not accustomed to acting independently and decisively or taking a leadership role.
And they rarely accomplish anything of substance and never on their own.
They are consensus seekers and compromisers, not men of singular action.
Trump didn't "humiliate" Session. You're using a word created by a Fake News headline writer.
Trump simply criticized the recusal as not being the right thing to do.
You must have missed what he said today that Sessions only supported him because he drew a big crowd in Alabama.
I got in back in early 2011, but I don’t twist myself into a pretzel to ignore unforced errors.
When did you get in, myrmidon?
Thank you. Just stating the unfortunate truth.
Thanks:)
Very well said, Harmless Teddy Bear.
As much as I hate it, Sessions is in over his head.
All these scandals are red meat for the Left and Media...sad.
Sessions offered his resignation a few weeks ago and Trump refused it. Sessions gave up a lot to take the job. Now, Sessions should not resign. Trump and his WH staff are as responsible, or more so, for the failure to coordinate the recusal decision as Sessions. They had more than a month to get it right.
There is a real lack of coordination and communication in the WH. It’s a two way street.
>You must have missed what he said today that Sessions only supported him because he drew a big crowd in Alabama.
There’s no way that’s not kabuki theater.
Not a few weeks, in June, and clearly something has happened to change the situation. Another poster pointed out that Sessions apparently stated awhile back that he won't investigate Hillary "in order to avoid the appearance of bias"! More than likely he reiterated such a stupid position, assuming that FReeper wasn't making things up.
There is a real lack of coordination and communication in the WH
If Sessions is truly sending out "allies" to talk crap to the media, then the lack of coordination and communication is due to Sessions going inexplicably rogue.
“Beleaguered” is a projection but “it’s the economy stupid.”
True.
I just can’t see this as a ruse. It’s wishful thinking, IMO.
I take it you believe the rift is genuine, and not some cheese in the maze stratagem?
If it does they don't belong on this forum anyway.
When History is written 50 years from now The name Sessions will be very prominent in the story of the destruction of a popularly elected President. Whether by ignorance or design his recusal gave us Mueller, couldn't of happened any other way.
“Beleaguered” is a projection but “it’s the economy stupid.”
Dead wrong. “It’s the rule of law and the very survival of America, stupid”
"Awhile back" is January 10, in his contentious confirmation hearing.
GRASSLEY: During the course of the presidential campaign, you made a number of statements about the investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, relating to her handling of sensitive e-mails and regarding certain actions of the Clinton Foundation. You weren't alone in that criticism.I was certainly critical in the same way as were millions of Americans on those matters, but now, you've been nominated to serve as attorney general. In light of those comments that you made, some have expressed concerns about whether you can approach the Clinton matter impartially in both fact and appearance. How do you plan to address those concerns?
SESSIONS: Mr. Chairman, it was a highly contentious campaign. I, like a lot of people, made comments about the issues in that campaign. With regard to Secretary Clinton and some of the comments I made, I do believe that that could place me objectivity in question. I've given that thought.
I believe the proper thing for me to do, would be to recuse myself from any questions involving those kind of investigations that involve Secretary Clinton and that were raised during the campaign or to be otherwise connected to it.
GRASSLEY: OK. I think, that's -- let me emphasize then with a follow up question. To be very clear, you intend to recuse yourself from both the Clinton e-mail investigation and any matters involving the Clinton Foundation, if there are any?
SESSIONS: Yes.
Sessions Confirmation Hearing - January 10, 2017
Remarks by President Trump at Swearing-In of Attorney General Sessions - Feb 9 (just for reference)
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