I am absolutely 100% convinced Sessions was a Trojan horse planted in the Trump campaign precisely to help grease the skids for a coup should Trump actually win. Then when he did, Sessions deliberately fouled things up at DOJ to make the Mueller thing possible. Sure, I could be wrong, but the way things played out leads to only two possible conclusions about Sessions. Either he is an enormously weak, stupid man who was in way over his head as AG, or he was complicit in the coup attempt.
“If that f&*k#ng b%st%rd [Donald Trump] wins, we all hang from nooses.” Typical hiLIARy class. It was just under a month before the general election. Mat Lauer asked something to close to the secret server. That’s the time she called Brazille a “buffalo.” Class, pure class.
Just for the sake of completeness, we should include the 3rd possibility:
he was secretly working closely with Trump the whole time, and the fruits of his labor have yet to surface.
I'm trying to state this in a neutral (not mocking) way as I can. Which is because I'm trying to just lay it out here, not endorse it any of the three options yet.
This "still positive" view of Sessions is held by many (but not all) of the 17th Letter Aficionados . You may recall that one of the recurrent memes / mottos was "Trust Sessions".
The one future proof-point that I am aware of is one connected with US Attorney John Huber. Huber was said to be working quietly in the background by the pro-Sessions guys, and they are expecting all his work to finally be shown right after the promised OIG report by IG Horowitz which is expected in roughly the next month.
Some of us have been extremely skeptical that Huber was anything but a distraction, to keep everyone off of Sessions back, and that, in fact, Huber hasn't been doing anything to investigate the Deep State Coup.
I'd say we will know soon, though. If nothing comes out after the IG Report on FISA then what is he waiting for? (The 17th Letter Guys will keep saying it's coming, it's coming I guess, but it becomes implausible at some point).
So, that's the other theory, and the one possible proof point to support it. If nothing ever comes out of Huber then the "Trust Sessions" motif was a false one, and the people who were pushing it were just very very wrong.
How many Senate Democrats voted to confirm Sessions as AG?
I think another possibility was that Trump knew the Mueller Investigation had to play out. And even a Barr could not prevent the Mueller investigation from concluding.
At least Sessions was active on fighting MS-13.