Trump wishes he hadn't picked Jeff Sessions for attorney general

CNN ^ | May 30, 2018 | Veronica Stracqualursi and Allie Malloy

[EdnaMode]

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he regretted choosing Jeff Sessions as attorney general, a continuation of the President's frustrations over Sessions' decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

Quoting Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, who noted on CBS earlier Wednesday that Trump "could have picked somebody else" for the position, Trump tweeted, "I wish I did!"

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump ....There are lots of really good lawyers in the country, he could have picked somebody else!” And I wish I did! 8:47 AM - May 30, 2018

[Fantasywriter]

You are right and I was wrong:

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[jpsb]

"Trump can appoint an interim AG and they can start the job immediately

No, Trump can not appoint an interim AG. Mitch never declares the Senate out of session. There is always at least one Senator at the Senate. Mitch will not allow Trump to make an interim appointment.

[proust]

Now that’s not exactly an indictment is it?

[odawg]

If Sessions had a tenth of the honor he claims he has, he would have resigned months ago, or told Trump that he would recuse himself.

If he doesn’t resign today, it would mean that he is actively working against Trump. Can’t dodge the issue anymore.

[Ron H.]

Jeff Sessions has been AG for 1 year, 3 months, 21 days.

Borrowing a line from an old Wolf Brand chili commercial from a bygone era.....

"Well Neighbor That's Been Too Long"!

[Fantasywriter]

You summarized it exactly. Trump cannot fire Sessions in a vacuum, and the GOP Permanent Political Class has already told Trump what will happen if he he fires Jeff. It will get ugly, and it could easily get out of hand.

[Ron H.]

The President can fire him at will.

The media will howl. So what.

If he does it won't happen before the mid-terms.

[semantic]

My core issue with the scenario you described is that it requires two, fairly specific and directed assumptions that *must* work in conjunction with each other:

1. Sessions is part of a deep seated, long term plot going back to when he first joined Trump's election team; and

2. Trump - the volatile, bombastic slayer a la "Pelosi is a MS-13 lover" - for some reason or another turns a 180 on his entire life approach and resorts to whining on Twatter.

Please note that both must be true. Sessions *could* be a plant (but, one who has remained absolutely silent, unlike every other player in this drama), but it also requires Trump for some odd reason not to be Trump.

I'm still in the 'does not compute' camp; it simply fails elementary logic. And, as far as the GOPe Senate threatening Trump, let us not forget that the attempted coup is in actuality an act of war. Yes, treason; and it includes not only those levying, but aiding and abetting.

There seems to be a an awfully large assumption that business as usual will continue. But Trump could pull the trigger to bring on the whole sh!t show if he so chooses.

[Hawthorn]

>> Who choose Gowdy to be the Trump expert? <<

Trial balloon for Trey as the new AG?

[WashingtonFire]

I always considered Sessions to the be the quintessential Southern gentleman. I thought he possessioned the qualities of honour, dignity, patriotism and gentleness that the noble South has always been famed for.

How wrong I was.

The guy is a Cuckold of the highest order

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Shouldn’t you be banging some Thai ladyboy?

[Hawthorn]

>> The President is not above the law and should be subject to it <<

Novel thought around here?

[joesbucks]

A tool that Trump appointed.

[NormsRevenge]

Gee,, and here I once thought Trey might be a good pick for the AG slot... Once.

[Boogieman]

“I don’t know whether he maneuvered himself into the administration on behalf of the anti-Trumpers to cause all this trouble...”

Is there really another reasonable alternative? The only reason Trump has no ability to stop the DOJ, his subordinates, from investigating him and his campaign, is because of Sessions. Without Sessions sitting in that AG chair recusing himself, the rest of the swamp plot collapses.

[catnipman]

“As long as everyone, including the media, believes Sessions isn’t doing his job, the easier it is for Sessions to do his job.”

it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if that’s the case ... i wouldn’t put it past Trump and Sessions to play good-cop bad-cop, while getting together and chuckling about it all along ... we know that Trump doesn’t hesitate to fire very high level cabinet heads and very high level staffers if they don’t perform, so either he’s waiting until after the midterms, or he and Sessions are yucking it up ...

in particular, since Trump knows that there was no “russian collusion” and therefore no evidence of such, and with Horowitz apparently doing a bang-up job in exposing DoJ/FBI criminality under obama, and Mueller running around like a chicken with it’s head chopped off, Trump knows that ultimately the truth will come out that there was no “russian collusion”, and no one will be able to credibly claim that the investigations were a whitewash ...

[arthurus]

He is doing for DJT what DJT needs him to do. If it were not so he would be long gone already.DJ T's disparaging of Sessions is a tactic to put the left on Sessions̉ side to blindside them at the end and leave them supporting their worst enemy with no excuses.

[BlackbirdSST]

Wrong, the senate would have to be in recess for Trump to make that kind of appointment. mcconnel has not put the senate in recess since Trump became president.

Can the Senate President (VP Pence) walk in, rap the gavel and pronounce the session adjourned?

[Southnsoul]

Enjoy the show folks.

As long as everyone, including the media, believes Sessions isn’t doing his job, the easier it is for Sessions to do his job.

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Why does it have to be a show?

I keep reading this argument that Jeff Sessions and President Trump are secretly working together behind the scenes to bring down the Deep State, but never an explanation as to why they would have to conduct this charade.

Donald Trump won the election, he’s the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, he chose HIS ATTORNEY General to carry out justice and enforce the laws of the land, so WHY can’t Jeff Sessions simply carry out his sworn duties without playing some game with public perception?

Even if this argument is true, that Jeff Sessions has been working behind the scenes to drop the net on the Deep State and President Trump knows all about it, HOW will that prevent the liberal media and the Democrat party from accusing President Trump of tampering with the investigations and putting unbearable pressure on his AG to wield vengeance on his political opponents?

It doesn’t make sense no matter how you cut it.

[Norseman]

>>Enjoy the show folks.

As long as everyone, including the media, believes Sessions isn’t doing his job, the easier it is for Sessions to do his job.<<

I’m with you on this one. Trump doesn’t just tweet randomly. His tweets have a purpose. Sessions and Trump get along well enough that if Trump didn’t want him around, he’d willingly resign, in my opinion.

So this tweet just drives the left toward supporting Sessions, which is convenient right before the IG report is due and right before the Sessions-appointed prosecutor Huber is likely to begin focusing on all the people who need to be indicted (or will be immediately indicted) after issuance of the IG report.