Posted on 09/19/2018 6:26:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump in an Oval Office interview with Hill.TV launched one of his most ferocious broadsides to date against Jeff Sessions, suggesting the attorney general was essentially AWOL and performing badly on a variety of issues.
“I don’t have an Attorney General. It’s very sad,” Trump told Hill.TV in an extensive and free-wheeling interview Tuesday from the Oval Office.
The president has long excoriated Sessions for his March2017 decision to recuse himself from the Russia collusion investigation. But on Tuesday he suggested he is frustrated by Sessions' performance on far more than that.
“I’m not happy at the border, I’m not happy with numerous things, not just this,” he said.
Trump suggested he had a personal blind spot when it came to nominating Sessions as the nation’s top law enforcement officer.
“I’m so sad over Jeff Sessions because he came to me. He was the first Senator that endorsed me. And he wanted to be Attorney General, and I didn’t see it,” he said.
“And then he went through the nominating process and he did very poorly. I mean, he was mixed up and confused, and people that worked with him for, you know, a long time in the Senate were not nice to him, but he was giving very confusing answers. Answers that should have been easily answered. And that was a rough time for him.”
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Maybe Jeff Sessions is a “soldier” for the Deep State. That wouldn’t surprise me for one minute...
from a bird’s eye view it would appear HRC is STILL running the DOJ...
In before that EEE guy who’s always defending Sessions!
He recused himself from the Russia collusion investigation. Do you really believe that he has been doing nothing since then? Furthermore do you believe that PDJT would tolerate that for this long if Sessions has been sitting on his thumb for almost 2 years? I have faith in this president and trust his judgment.
No, you don't. If you did, you would take the President at his word, when he says that he has no Attorney General. You would have trusted him all the other times he's publicly expressed his disappointment with Jeff Sessions.
The abominable Jeff Sessions has done more damage to the President and the MAGA agenda than any avowed and knowing enemy could ever have done.
By recusing, he effectively laid down his arms. By refusing to resign, he prevented a better man from picking those arms up and assuming the post.
If Trump could have fired him without political blowback, he would have done it long ago.
I choose to believe that this is a ruse and Sessions is working on things in the background. I don’t think Trump would have kept him on until now if he was useless, regardless of political repercussions. Is it not odd that Sessions has been out of the public eye for so long, and not subject to the leftist media onslaught? I could be wrong friend, but I hope I’m not.
Working on "things"? What sort of "things"?
If you're referring to investigations having to do with the Clintons, or the attempted Deep State coup against the President, you'd better hope that Jeff Sessions isn't stupid enough to lay a glove on them.
Per his recusal, he is legally forbidden to have anything to do with such investigations. Should the federal government bring charges against any of those Deep State miscreants and it is subsequently discovered that Sessions had a hand in developing those cases, they'll all be thrown out of court, due to his having violated the terms of his recusal.
Sessions is free to 'work behind the scenes' on any number of criminal issues, but not those from which he is legally recused.
So I ask you -- just what do you think he's working on 'behind the scenes'?
Let us wait and see.
So you reject facts, logic, reason, the law, AND the President's numerous public statements on this?
Let me guess.....you 'trust the plan', don't you?
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