I agree that actually jailing people is tougher to pull off than it seems. My beef with Sessions is he didn’t even try.
You have to send messages. If DemoKKKrats/antifa creeps had to spend lots of $ to get acquitted, that alone would have been just one impediment to more mischief.
But I agree that until we know for sure what happened with Sessions, the history of this era will never be complete.
“You have to send messages.“
True. I think now that Mueller has formally thrown in the towel, team Trump may finally be able to do that. I see it as being kind of like marriage counseling protocol, where whoever goes first has to be allowed to list grievances without interruption - and the other spouse just has to listen. If the designated listener interrupts, scowls, denies or defends, then the whole process unwinds and the $100 is wasted.
I think for whatever reason, President Trump was the designated listener and had to just shut up and take it - and he did just that. I admit Sessions did nothing, but I don’t see any evidence that Trump or anyone else on his team was rattling the cages to circumvent Sessions or get him out of the way - it looked to me like it was a team decision to do nothing. The fact that President Trump now outspokenly blames Sessions doesn’t convince me otherwise.
Two years later maybe it’s finally Trump’s turn to talk. I hope so, because - like you said - messages need to be sent.