Posted on 06/10/2018 7:06:42 AM PDT by libstripper
I have known Jeff Sessions for a long time. In 1994, he was running for Alabama attorney general, and I was running for the congressional seat presently occupied by Mo Brooks. Jeff and I, then, were on the same GOP ticket in my congressional district, and we showed up at times on the same stump. He won, and I lost. Out of 50,000 votes cast in the primary, I came up 23 votes short.
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Jeff Sessions said he was recused. No matter what happens, one should believe him, that he is doing nothing except leaving it up to Rod Rosenstein.
...The truth will be known in the end and someone will look like a fool. It won’t be me.
Believing Sessions is recused when he says that he's recused, one could never look foolish.
You, on the other hand, will have to explain why you were wrong and why you refused to take Jeff Sessions at his word.
Ouch!
That is the sixty four thousand dollar question. The man who wrote "Art of the Deal" also missed Bill Clinton and his AG, Janet Reno, who gave us Waco, Ruby Ridge, and federal troops pointing a gun at Elian Gonzalez?
Trump's knowledge gap regarding the historical importance of having an absolute loyalist heading DOJ is--as you have inferred--inexplicable.
Hugh McInnish, who knew Jeff Sessions when he was AG of Alabama makes no mention of Sessions being nicknamed back then, the Silent Executioner.
I'm still looking for proof that he was called that. Do you have any?
I wonder if Sessions was part of some deal with the Republican establishment in December 2016
You’re right, and that’s when we’ll know what Sessions is really about.
I hope the answer is Patriot.
No, I did not find any evidence of Jeff Sessions being called “the Silent Executioner” from back around the time that he was the US Attorney who took down the Democratic Party’s terrorist arm at the time, the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama.
It seems to be a more modern nickname.
The underlying facts of his quiet and effective prosecution - that he got the only death penalty of the 20th Century for a Klansman (Henry Hays) convicted of killing a Black (Michael Donald), and that Sessions himself later got the sentence carried out as State AG, are public record beyond dispute.
I’m with you on Sessions, BeauBo.
He’ll eventually be seen as the Elliot Ness of our time. (That one ought to trigger ‘em...and I mean it, by the way.)
“Peter Principle Magoo” That is how it started, not sure how it will end.
Yeah, in retrospect it’s hard to understand, but we have to remember, Sessions appeared to be the most Trump-friendly person in Washington throughout the entire campaign, and he was manifestly qualified and widely respected. But yes, I think Giuliani was the next choice, and that probably would’ve been better.
Being qualified to be a Senator is equal to changing the urinal pucks in the private sector. You couldn’t pick a more useless group of do nothings if you tried.
Well Jeff Sessions was one of the few voices in Congress speaking out against illegal immigration.
Who is your Senator, Chris? Tell us where he stands on illegal immigration.
Multiple Choice:
a. being blackmailed
b. deep state operative
c. member of the swamp
d. being paid off
e. a chicken
f. any and all of the above
I have to respectfully disagree.
Speaking on my own behalf, as a retiree who successfully held down many jobs over the years, I believe I can compare my brief foray into sales with the Sessions situation.
I applied my brainpower and work ethic as best I knew how. I really gave it my all.
When all was said and done, however, the sales manager couldn't care less how hard I worked. He looked at the numbers at the end of the month.
Results were all that mattered.
The overwhelming evidence of crimes by the deep state and the Hillary syndicate has been sitting there for years now, yet nothing has happened other than a few Trump people being nailed to the wall.
I don't besmirch Sessions personally,
I'm just not seeing any results.
If he can't or won't get the job done, let's find someone who will.
Impatience is not a virtue
The deeds will be done at a time and place of Sessions choosing
“Results were all that mattered.”
The best results would include swinging the midterm elections with such once in a lifetime scandal gold.
Unveiling the charges too early would miss the biggest impact. It also just takes a while to roll up corruption that is so widespread.
Next week’s IG Report is just around the corner. This last week’s indictment of the Senate leaker is the first revealed results, but it showed that prosecutors, Grand Juries and the FBI have been working since last year.
Good article. Pretty well explains the kind of man Sessions is.
What kind of man is Jeff Session? He’s a lamb and we need lions.
I doubt much will occur.
Watergate yielded about 18 month sentences, for a handful. AG Mitchell, an, Erlichman, Colson, Dean etc.
This result because Nixon was hated.
OTOH Obama is loved in DC and by the media. Five years from now, Sessions might get a couple for 6 month sentences.
Oh, Jeff said some stuff? Like Trey Gowdy says stuff?
Impressive legacy. I can see why a bunch of fools trust him.
My senator is Marco Rubio, whom I did not vote for in 2016 and will not vote for ever again.
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