Posted on 07/25/2017 7:33:44 PM PDT by Bratch
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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