Posted on 07/27/2017 10:26:31 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Mr. President, please cut it out. Tweet to your heart’s content, but stop the wildly inappropriate attacks on the attorney general. An honorable man whom I have known since his days as a U.S. attorney in Alabama, Jeff Sessions has recently become your piñata in one of the most outrageous — and profoundly misguided — courses of presidential conduct I have witnessed in five decades in and around the nation’s capital. What you are doing is harmful to your presidency and inimical to our foundational commitment as a free people to the rule of law.
The attorney general is not — and cannot be — the president’s “hockey goalie,” as new White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci described Sessions’s job. In fact, the president isn’t even his client. To the contrary, the attorney general’s client is ultimately “We the People,” and his fidelity has to be not to the president but to the Constitution and other laws of the United States. Indeed, the attorney general’s job, at times, is to tell the president “no” because of the supervening demands of the law. When it comes to dealing with the nation’s top legal officer, you will do well to check your Twitter weapons at the Oval Office door.
A rich history buttresses my uninvited but from-the-heart advice. In the wake of President Richard Nixon’s resignation, the colorful Sen. Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) — a hero of the long Watergate ordeal — held hearings on a newly minted proposal to create an independent Justice Department, along the lines of other independent agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission. The idea was simple: Especially in the wake of the Nixon-era scandals infecting it, the department should, to the fullest extent possible, be insulated from raw political considerations in the enforcement of the nation’s laws.
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Pence and sessions are in on the coup.
Exactly.
She blew it.
You blew it.
Go away.
Whether President Trump went after Sessions publicly as a strategic move or he was genuinely fed up with the lack of intensity on the AG’s part, he gets things going that otherwise would never happen.
I’d rather have a president who is open and honest with his feelings, especially with the public, than to have a president who is secretive and a liar.
Starr should have paid more attention to Baylor football players raping students.
Washington Post: Please STFU! If you have a better rational idea to MAGA, we’re all ears.
But we know that isn’t going to happen, because the federal government F***s up virtually everything that they come in contact with.
But the socialist-democrats and their boot-licking, ass-kissing, toadies and lackeys in media and government got NOTHING!!!
Oh? How many of President Trump’s appointees have been approved? The ones who the RATS have blackmailed? Hahahaha.
Really? He seems to confuse twitterworld with reality. Someone needs to remind him that he is Jeff Sessions' boss. He can fire him at any time. He can pick up the phone and talk to him. He can call him in and read him the riot act. He can call him in and give an order to do whatever. When you have an issue with someone who works for you, grousing to third parties -- let alone on social media -- just makes you, not your employee, look ineffectual.
Sessions' response should be to say, simply, that he doesn't have time for twitter. He works for the president and he will be happy to discuss any issues with the president directly. Beyond that, ignore it. Trump is clearly addicted to twitter. I have teenage daughters. I recognize the syndrome. They are umbilically attached to their phones. They process their lives, and their thinking, through social media. I can't imagine working for them, and being expected to monitor twitter to find out what my boss is thinking.
This guy hasn't been relevant in almost 20 years. Maybe the WP can get Walter Mondale to publish an op-ed supporting AG Sessions, too? LOL.
Probably the biggest problem that Trump has, which has thrown him into a strategically IMPOSSIBLE position, is that very few of his nominees have made it through. The ones that have, he keeps attacking instead of going after the Obama leftovers probably because the Obama leftovers are setting them up as part of a very successful campaign to isolate the duly elected President of the United States!
Trump attacking his own nominees publicly is not strength nor honesty, its a sign of weakness and failure and stupidity.
Its your nominee Trump.
This guy hasn't been relevant in almost 20 years. Maybe the WP can get Walter Mondale to publish an op-ed supporting AG Sessions, too? LOL.
Starr presided over the downfall, scandal and disgrace of the nation’s larget Baptist University, and yet he pontificates on how others should do their tweets.
Who is looking silly here...
Starr is wrong, the AG is the President’s appointee and serves at his pleasure. That said, I can’t figure out what Trump thinks he’s doing with Sessions. It’s bizarre.
Perhaps Sessions wouldn’t have to be concerned with what his boss was thinking if he actually DID HIS DAMN JOB.
Starr sucks.
I agree. I’ll throw on top of that, it’s passive agressive pansy sh!t too. I wouldn’t want my boss harping on in public how he feels about my performance. I’d prefer he do it behind closed doors and if I satisfied give me my walking papers.
Even if he did have that conversation posting it on the land of the vapid can’t comprehend beyond 160 characters Twitter is beyond comprehension. You don’t air your dirty laundry in public and you certainly don’t dress someone down in public. Who the hell would want to work for someone like that? That my friend is called leadership through fear and intimidation and not uplifting in any sense
“I can’t figure out what Trump thinks he’s doing with Sessions. It’s bizarre.”
Take lindsay graham’s statements today warning Trump with impeachment if he fires sessions.
The simplest explanation...Sessions, the rat bastard, is refusing to step down because it will give the kabuki party more ammunition for impeachment if Trump fires him.
Starting to get it, yet?
the WaComPost is now relying on Ken Starr??? LMAO
How’s he going to backtrack on this after Session’s indictments come down?
And he cant get a replacement for Sessions through the Senate and would end with Rosenstein who did the appointment,
that would be a full Sessions recluse of everything AG wise for him reclusing him in that investigation.
Its so stupid.
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