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.
Hillary, Bill and Chelsea, Obama, Lynch, Rice, Holder, Mills, Abedin, Jeh Johnson, Clapper and Brennan, should all be prosecuted.
I think Sessions is afraid of the swamp.
That dashes any hope of secret grand juries in progress.
“I think Sessions is afraid of the swamp.”
I think Sessions is afraid of the Clinton Mafia and Arkancide for himself and/or his family.
It shouldn't. Neither Trump nor the DoJ is neutered by having Sessions sit out a few classes of investigation and prosecution.
What does dash the hope is unwillingness on the part of the FBI to start or forward investigations of the politically connected to US Attorneys, and US Attorneys spiking those cases.
Trump: I will instruct my AG to appoint a SC to look into Hillary
The Second U.S. Presidential Debate - Oct 10, 2016
It is difficult (that's an understatement) to have one's own AG investigate oneself, or one's political opponent. Those endeavors inherently call for some sort of independent review. Trump seems to have understood this at least with regard to going after an opponent.
“The Attorney General ... does not desire to participate in an epic battle of such a politically adversarial nature.”
It’s entirely possible that Sessions talked a good game before the election, promising DJT that he could/would kick ass. And it’s also possible that when he did it he believed that Trump had no chance of winning, along with most pols. Trump won and now JS is expected to do what he promised, but he just isn’t tough enough.
“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.”
This is Trump’s problem. The recusal from the Russia investigation was not on the horizon when Trump appointed Sessions. Now Trump will not let it go. It is not the job of the AG to protect POTUS against himself. If this is the way Mr. Trump treats a cabinet member who was an early, critically needed, high level supporter, then every cabinet member will be in constant fear of public ridicule.
If the tweets and Mooch are any indication, the WH is starting to look like the USS Caine, with the smart people about to jump ship.
Love Trump and what he stands for, but the tweets and paranoia have to stop if he intends to govern effectively.
And not telling Trump in advance that he would recuse himself may be a big part of Trump’s current anger. It really looks like Sessions doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to meet the opposition head on. I have to say I think Trump should express his anger in private, though, and do something about it.
Hillary nabbed Session’s FBI file while she was the First Lady. His and 900 other people she wanted to be sure to be able to control in her political future after Bill was president.
Trump’s file was NOT collected. She did not foresee him at all.
See the difference?
I believe the greatest threat to this country, democracy & the rule of law is not ISIS, North Korea, China, or Russia; it is corruption in Washington, specifically the corruption & likely treason of the Democratic Party with the collusion of the RINOs in Congress.
Sessions doesn’t seem to agree. I fear he has been a politician too long, become too comfortable with the way things are done in WDC, made too many friends across the isle. If that be the case, he needs to go.
Fair warning for Trump: If the Clintons, Lynch, & Comey don’t go to trial, winning in 2020 is gonna be much harder than 2016, & losing is a real possibility.
The media image of Trump as irrational, emotional, out of control, etc, is belied by his entire lifetime of success and effective business skills. He has proven himself to be highly deliberative, intensely rational and a skilled manipulator. He is Machiavellian to a fault. He destroys his opposition by leading them into cul-de-sacs of their own making.
It makes sense that the anti-Trump crowd has overstepped itself by attacking Trump’s family. His wrath is forthcoming. It is directed at Sessions because The AG is the office with the clout to go after official corruption.
It would serve Sessions well to appoint a SP to go after the Clinton crime family. That could derail Mueller’s vendetta by placing a target on his back. It would also put the swamp on notice that its days are numbered and would bring some songbirds trying to save their precious hides in to the open.
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Great comment!
If that is so, then how come both Clintons are not in jail already?
If you no longer support Trump because he offends your delicate sensibilities, good riddance.
Snowflake.
When you can’t make a statement without childish name calling, you should realize you have nothing to say.
And you also have no clue what you’re talking about.
“He was the vegetable manager at a Publix store in Florida, according to Mark Levin;;”
Kind of a weird dis from a supposed capitalist?
I agree. and yes, privately.
I wonder if they are worried their phones are tapped?
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