Posted on 08/11/2018 1:17:29 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump ratcheted up his attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Saturday, tweeting that Sessions was "scared stiff" and "Missing in Action" in defending him amid special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Trump slammed Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer at the center of the Trump dossier scandal, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) and once again slammed Mueller's investigation as a "witch hunt."
"The big story that the Fake News Media refuses to report is lowlife Christopher Steele’s many meetings with Deputy A.G. Bruce Ohr and his beautiful wife, Nelly. It was Fusion GPS that hired Steele to write the phony & discredited Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary & the DNC," Trump tweeted.
"Do you believe Nelly worked for Fusion and her husband STILL WORKS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF 'JUSTICE.' I have never seen anything so Rigged in my life. Our A.G. is scared stiff and Missing in Action. It is all starting to be revealed - not pretty. IG Report soon? Witch Hunt!" he wrote.
Trump’s attack on Saturday was likely prompted by murmurings that the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is readying subpoenas for people connected to the controversial Steele dossier.
Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) is reportedly preparing subpoenas for DOJ official Bruce Ohr, his wife, Nellie Ohr, and Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, sources told The Hill this week.
Bruce Ohr is facing scrutiny from Republicans for his contacts with Simpson and Steele during the presidential campaign, the news of which prompted Trump allies to demand a special counsel investigation into the DOJ and FBI in December.
Simpson hired Steele to help produce the dossier that made a series of salacious allegations about Trump's connections with Russia.
Nellie Ohr worked for Fusion GPS during the presidential campaign — a fact that Republicans have promoted as a possible link between the DOJ and the opposition research firm.
Trump has gone after Sessions for the Russia probe before, saying earlier this month that the attorney general should stop the investigation "right now."
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further," Trump tweeted on Aug. 1.
Trump is also known to harbor hostility toward Sessions for recusing himself in the investigation.
“The Russian Witch Hunt Hoax continues, all because Jeff Sessions didn’t tell me he was going to recuse himself...I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined...and Sessions knew better than most that there was No Collusion!” the president tweeted in June.
“A pro active attorney general would have been an enormous asset in draining the swamp or at least prosecuting many of the criminal factions in the bureaucracy. The Left is not attacking Jeff Sessions except in regard to the few moves he is making on illegal aliens. For the most part they have ignored him over the past 18 months and that speaks volumes to me. “
Good points. We needed all hands on deck to have a slim chance of wresting control of our corrupt fed govt from the rabid left...Sessions betrayal made that task all but impossible
In case you haven’t noticed Trump is the GD president and has the highest power.
More likely, Trump doesn't trust Sessions enough to talk to him in private.
Remember when Comey said that his private meeting with Trump was "evidence of obstruction".
Pence will have to choose a new vice president. His Vice president will become president. By the time it all rolls around it would by 2020 anyway. The Senate would have to vote by 2/3’rd to remove Trump anyway and the same would have to happen to Pence. Nothing will happen but a lot of dust.
Ernest Borgnine on a diet?
Trump is one man. When you have both parties, the corrupt courts, the whole of the administrative state(stasi state), the DOJ and the propaganda media refusing to recognize your legitimacy as POTUS. You’re hamstrung...PINO.
".....On June 26, 2014, in a 9–0 ruling, the United States Supreme Court validated this practice of using pro forma sessions to block the president from using the recess appointment authority...."
Scared is an interesting choice of words. I sometimes feel Trump is Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino and Sessions is the kid he is trying to teach to man-up and learn to stand up for himself.
Sessions could grab a stack of bibles, and swear on his mothers grave that he is recused, and then do absolutely nothing for 18 months and some of you would still think that Sessions is "playing possum".
Do you really think Donald J. Trump would spend more than ten seconds of his life in a position where he serves as “President in name only?” LOL.
I suppose I should have said that I hope he playing possum.
“Are you sure that’s a woman?”
Not in the normal sense of the term.
Trump tapped Sessions to be his AG for 2 reasons.
First, Rudy Giuliani made it clear he would not accept the AG position if offered. Trump wanted Giuliani for AG but Rudy pre-empted Trump’s offer by saying he would not accept it. Rudy now “regrets” this.
Second, Sessions was due a reward from Trump for being the first Deep State politician to support him. Trump is loyal if nothing else, and he was intent on rewarding Sessions for being his first supporter and biggest Deep State supporter. Sadly, Trump did not realize what a poor choice Sessions was for the job. Which is just how Trump works. He tries something, then corrects his mistakes. In this case, the Deep State and the GOP-e are threatening Trump if he corrects this mistake. I think Trump should call their bluff. They are spineless after all, but for some reason, Trump is unwilling to fire Sessions. He will after his re-election. Between administartions everybody in the cabinet submits resignations. Trump will accept Sessions’s resignation in 2020. That is too late though.
Can Sessions unrecuse?
How would he do it?
“Republicans in the Senate have said that they will move to impeach Trump if he moves on Sessions.”
Give me a link proving your assertion...
BS That one man is president If he feels paralyzed and you seem to feel he is, he should resign rather than let criminals walk round free..
Applying a little critical thought to your theory...
If Sessions acts after Trump criticizes Sessions then it would look like Trump is bullying Sessions into prosecuting people.
Both Trump and Sessions would look bad.
There’s got to be some kind of Kabuki theater going on between Trump and sessions. There’s no way that he would allow him to be employed if he didn’t want him that bad.
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