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.
I recall those days, and Trump does not need to start supplying the public with a string of pointless examples of what objectionable behavior he can indulge in. He needs to leave that sort of thing behind.
Conservatives aren't lemmings.
Yep, and there is some percentage of them who will stay home on election day if they find a candidate's behavior or attitude objectionable, even if it helps a Dim in the election. And all the whining and gnashing of teeth in the world won't change that.
Sessions recusing himself was a bad move. Ignoring Clinton crimes is unacceptable.
I’m not suggesting the reporting is fake. I’m suggesting that Trump has ulterior motives here if he’s going to the NY Times — a thoroughly discredited liberal propaganda rag that has been working to undermine Trump for two years — to put this story out there initially.
You seem to have quite a nasty little mouth, or attitude about you.
“He was the vegetable manager at a Publix store in Florida”
So What?
I have a metric f*ckton more respect for the vegetable manager at Publix in Florida than I do for anyone in Washington DC not named Trump.
You should be thankful that I self censored what I really wanted to say to you.
You wouldn’t have liked it.
I’m an Alabama native and Sessions was my Senator. I was a huge supporter when he was Senator and was elated when he was appointed AG.
That’s why it pains me to see how timid and incompetent Sessions has been as AG. He doesn’t even seem like the same man.
I’m deeply disappointed in the trivial issues that Sessions has decided to focus on: Civil forfeiture and the punishment of everyday pot smokers and medical marijuana users.
Sessions has always been strong on immigration so why isn’t he aggressively going after Sanctuary Cities? He needs to be putting the hammer on those treasonous cities.
The prosecution of Hillary, Obama, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder and Lois Lerner should be on the table. Violent hate groups such as Antifa should be punished for their crimes.
But Sessions chooses to be a “gentleman” and go easy on the traitors who are destroying this country. We need a ruthless attack dog who will give the enemy no quarter, not a polite gentleman.
I now wish Sessions would have remained as a Senator because he was more effective in that role.
I don’t blame Trump for being furious about Sessions recusing himself. That was a mistake and a White Flag to the Democrats.
And every Trump voter and potential Trump voter in Ohio and the entire USA thinks exactly like those at the Youngstown rally tonight. Right?
“Can you tell me why, while the recuse issues swirled around the media from late January until Sessions recused on March 2, Trump or Preibus or the WH counsel didn’t call those involved together to analyzed the legal issues and make a team decision?
That’s how good managers and executives operate”.
Excellent points. There is no excuse for the way this transpired.
I wouldn't have cared enough to like or dislike it.
Ha ha, I’ve been thinking that all along; WWE style drama, trumping deep state kabuki.
I did a bad job of stating my point. It gets harder to credibly label Trump's remarks as a charade between Trump and Sessions, or as a charade in general, when Trump's remarks persist over days and various outlets.
>>Why, then, are the criticisms public? It looks to me like he’s putting on a show, WWE style.
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Because to meet with him in private would invite calls of “collusion”! Nefarious activity! Russia! Russia! Russia!
Sundance speaks to this point in the article.
Sessions has already offered his resignation and Trump did not accept it. Trump apparently still wants him there. Ball is in Trump’s court. He can accept the resignation or tweet. So far just tweets.
Sundance???? Really??? Better than InvisibleChurch. You sound like one of the Popes Pedos
Here’s what you and your crybaby ilk keep missing - Trump is about results period. If he gets results he gets reelected. Period. He doesn’t care about daily opinion polls or take my ball and go home types.
He ran to win and he won to change things.Not go along get along.
Trump is killing it. Economy is booming and he has largely followed thru big time on every campaign promise. He ain’t going to let Sessions or anyone derail that and he doesn’t care what you think. For every crybaby follower of daily politics who bails on him are kitchen table Republicans AND Democrats who pick up the slack.
Mmm okay.
Sessions has already offered his resignation
Proof? Stand to be corrected. Link please.
That same old tiresome crap again?
Where's the 'Aw geez' guy when you need him.
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