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.
If Trump knew the principles of the job as well as Sessions, Sessions would not have to advise him of that basic reality. It is really simple. Friends are biased in favor freineds and biased against enemies, and the law aims for prosecutors to appear unbiased. If Sessions says "I'll follow the law," then recusal from these cases is baked in to that answer.
I don't think either of them foresaw the Russia lie metasticize into the level of a SC.
All water over the dam. People will take the stands they do, say the things they say, work will be assigned in sometimes sensible ways, and often in unproductive and non-sensical ways.
From what I see, Trump has a great team for going after Mueller. They are running a little below the surface right now. Congress is starting to come on board (o the Russia thing), which is great.
While I understand your reasoning, I can’t help but be nonplused at your avoidance of the “for political reasons” aspect of my post.
To ignore the exercise of political “power” with a statement of judicial theory is to avoid the only truly relevant issue in this dynamic.
That’s a big 10-4 yeah I think there’s a lot of stuff going on under the surface that we don’t know about nor do I need to know about it I’ve always said I don’t need to know everything that’s happening in Washington I just need to know that the job is getting done I love the transparency of trump I don’t mind his tweets at least I know what he’s doing and where he stands and for that I am grateful but as far as anything secret or any of that I don’t care what they do I don’t care who they spy on just get the crap out of Washington and save our country from the Liberals the progressives Etc we need to have him in for 8 years that’s all I know after that maybe Mike Pence but we can’t let the Dems back in control of anything please forgive no punctuation caps Etc I’m doing talk-to-text lol
Don't take my remarks as a defense of Mueller. I am livid at the fact this counterintelligence thing got spun up into a SC. I don't blame Sessions for that evolution of events, and I don't think having him spearhead taking it down would work. It would be reported as an exact parallel to Lynch or Comey spiking the Clinton investigation. A friend taking care of a friend, damn the law.
I'm not rejecting the contention that the investigation is illegitimate. What I am rejecting is a contention that Sessions recusal was improper or unnecessary (if only for optics, it was prudent); a contention that Sessions is a bald-faced liar (you aren't saying that, others are); and a contention that Sessions is responsible for the appointment of Mueller, that is, if he had not recused, there would not be a SC, because Sessions could spike the case and get away with it.
It's not Sessions' fault that Mueller is a snake, or that Comey managed to plant the notion that the Trump campaign was under criminal investigation (that happened on March 20 - AFTER Sessions recused from hypothetical criminal cases involving the Trump campaign) even though he never said that.
LOL. I found out that in “talk to text” you can say “period” “comma” “question mark” and it actually works. Amazing stuff. Exclamation point.
Lol... did you see your post hilarious! Oooo....it worked for me hahaha!! :)
I wonder if “smilie” works. Semi-colon, dash, close parentheses seems awkward.
Bawawahahaha!!
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