Posted on 11/13/2019 11:20:28 PM PST by knighthawk
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the case Wednesday for President Trump to support his second run for to represent Alabama in the Senate, saying that if he elected he would support the president aggressively.
"He didn't have a better supporter in the United States Senate than when I was there. I was his first supporter in the United States Senate," Sessions said on "The Ingraham Angle." "And if I go back to the United States Senate, he won't have a more aggressive, determined supporter when I get back."
Sessions told Ingraham he will "work for" Trump's endorsement and that "we'll be seeking it."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Ficus plant can beat Jones.
The fact that there is even a HINT of that sort of “speculation” means he has no business holding any position of trust EVER again.
Alabama shouldn’t reward him. Trump shouldn’t endorse him (not that it would matter, his endorsement of the corrupt Luther Strange didn’t help). That Sessions has the audacity to run after his epic failure as AG shows an arrogance to match that of Sinator Scum Willard of Utah. Hopefully Alabama primary voters are not fooled by this phony and go full retard at the polling booth.
That’s about as practical a suggestion as hacking off your arm because you have a hangnail. Sessions aided and abetted treason and sedition on his watch. He should be investigated.
Time for him to step aside.
Well earned disgust. We expected him to do his job. Instead he stood back and let the corrupt Derp State do a job on our President. It is inexcusable to defend this. I remained quiet on his “performance” for most of his tenure until I realized he was aiding and abetting what was going on. That means he is either grossly incompetent, being blackmailed, or is an intricate part of the Derp State. Either of the three means he is utterly unqualified to hold a position of trust again. To see someone I formerly respected exposed as such is sickening.
Well put.
A who’s who of weasels and gutless RINOs. That’s quite telling.
At one time Sessions was this Californian’s favorite
senator. As AG I could almost give him a pass on
his recusal. What really sticks in my throat is that
as a Trump ally Sessions should have tendered his AG
resignation along with his recusal.
Freepers love to act like Sessions recused himself in a vaccum. Maybe they ought to go back and look at how many Republicans in Congress called for Sessions to recuse himself. Here’s a sample:
That’s just not true. It’s widely known the GOP Senate publicly threatened POTUS not to fire Sessions after he took the advice of Obama Democrats in the DOJ ethics office and needlessly recused himself.
You have those quotes handy? Graham in particular was quite insulting and condescending of POTUS. Not that that would bother a Sessions apologist like you. One wonders if Senator Sessions 2.0 will be consulting with Obama Democrats before he supports POTUS in his second term. It seems likely he will given his track record at DOJ.
You can bet McConnell and the rest of the Never Trumpers in the Senate are watching the GOP base’s reaction to Sessions 2.0 carefully. If Sleepy Sessions gains wide support they will take it as a signal that they have absolutely nothing to fear from the GOP base and GOP obstruction of POTUS will increase x 100.
That’s why defeating this phony is paramount.
Bingo.
Lol. Let’s hope. We need all the seats we can.
The quotes were in my post. Try reading it before sharing your groupthink ignorance.
They first picked off General Flynn, using a meeting he had had with Sergei Kislyak.
Then they turned their attention to Sessions, using the same orchestrated accusations concerning an innocent meeting with Kislyak.
The pressure for recusal didn’t just come from Democrats. There were at least 13 Republican members of Congress who joined that mob calling for recusal, the ones cited in my post.
I agree. Sessions was a lousy AG, but he wasn't a lousy Senator.
“What really sticks in my throat is that as a Trump ally Sessions should have tendered his AG resignation along with
his recusal.”
Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker of the NY Times reported back in June of 2017 that Sessions offered to resign; obviously not the same day as his recusal but sometime in the 3rd month following:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/us/politics/jeff-sessions-donald-trump.html
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions offered to resign in recent weeks as he told President Trump he needed the freedom to do his job, according to two people who were briefed on the discussion.
The president turned down the offer, but on Tuesday, the White House declined to say whether Mr. Trump still had confidence in his attorney general.
“I have not had that discussion with him,” Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, told reporters, responding to questions about whether the president had soured on Mr. Sessions.
Mr. Spicer’s remarks came after The New York Times reported that Mr. Trump had vented intermittently about Mr. Sessions since the attorney general recused himself from any Russia-related investigations conducted by the Justice Department. Mr. Trump has fumed to allies and advisers ever since, suggesting that Mr. Sessions’s decision was needless.
He has also blamed Mr. Sessions for the fallout from an executive order that the president signed for a travel ban on seven primarily Muslim countries, which courts have blocked.
The situation between Mr. Sessions and Mr. Trump has grown so tense that the attorney general told Mr. Trump in recent weeks that he needed the freedom to do his job and that he could resign if that was what was wanted, according to the two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal White House matters. Mr. Trump did not take him up on the offer.
One person familiar with the events, who asked not to be identified, said that the discussion in which Mr. Sessions offered to leave his job took place in the days leading up to Mr. Trump’s nine-day foreign trip last month.
A spokesman for Mr. Sessions declined to comment. A White House spokeswoman did not respond to an email seeking comment.
The frustration at times goes both ways. Mr. Sessions was upset in March when the president tapped Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey to lead a task force on the opioids crisis without consulting the attorney general first, according to an administration official who asked not to be named discussing internal matters.
The offer by Mr. Sessions to discuss resigning, however lightly he made it, was surprising from one of the president’s earliest and most vocal supporters. Mr. Sessions’s former spokesman, Stephen Miller, is now Mr. Trump’s main speechwriter and a policy adviser.
But two people close to the president said Mr. Trump does not want to replace Mr. Sessions.
The president is said to be aware of the potential fallout of trying to get another attorney general through a confirmation hearing and that in the interim, he would be left with Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who recommended a special counsel for the Russia inquiry.
Edmund Demarche of Fox News reported the same story:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reports-sessions-offered-to-resign-amid-tensions-with-trump
The relationship between President Trump and his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has become so frayed, Sessions recently suggested that he could resign from his post, multiple media reports said on Tuesday.
Trump reportedly turned down the offer. The reported offer was not a formal one, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Trump has been angry with Sessions— one of his most vocal and earliest supporters— ever since Sessions recused himself in March from the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible connections between Moscow and Trump campaign aides.
Sean Spicer, the top White House spokesman, declined to say Tuesday whether Trump has confidence in Sessions.
“I have not had that discussion with him,” Spicer told reporters during a White House briefing, adding: “if I haven’t had a discussion with him about a subject, I tend not to speak about it.”
Charles Krauthammer, a contributor on Fox News, told “Special Report” that the last time Spicer said he did not speak to Trump about a member of his administration, then-FBI Director James Comey was fired days later.
“This is really bad,” Krauthammer said. He went on, “If you can’t absorb this one issue on which he disagrees and you have to get rid of him, no one is safe (in the White House).”
ABC News reported that the frustrations between Trump and Sessions is mutual. The Justice Department declined to comment for the ABC report. FoxNews.com could not immediately confirm reports.
The New York Times, citing unnamed sources, reported that Sessions told Trump that he needed more freedom to do his job successfully and he could resign if that was what Trump wanted.
A source told the paper the conversation occurred right before Trump’s overseas trip.
On Monday, Trump took to Twitter to publicly criticize the department’s legal strategy in defending his proposed travel ban barring the entry of people from certain Muslim-majority countries.
“The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.,” Trump tweeted Monday, ignoring the fact that he oversees the department and signed the second version of the ban.
“The Justice Dept. should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down Travel Ban before the Supreme Court - & seek much tougher version!” he added.
Trump has denied any collusion with Russia, deriding the story as a “witch hunt” and “fake news” invented to explain away the Democrats’ loss in November.
WaPo, WSJ, Vox, CNN, NPR, Politico, CNBC, NBC, UK Telegraph, all ran the same report in June 2017.
"Justice Department officials have said Durham took over Huber’s work on the Russia probe. A department spokeswoman declined to discuss aspects of Huber’s inquiry that involve Clinton.
LA Times, October 10, 2019
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-10/multiple-justice-dept-investigations-trump-pet-peeves
And the Lefties over at Mother Jones have their undies in a wad because they noticed that while Huber handed off the Russia probe to Durham he didn't hand off the Clinton Foundation probe:
"Sessions’ initial recusal announcement was broad: He promised to avoid involvement in investigations into any matters relating to the 2016 presidential campaign. But as Mother Jones has reported, he repeatedly violated that pledge during his time in office. Indeed, after months of public badgering by Trump, Sessions complied with his boss’s demand that the Justice Department investigate Hillary Clinton. In November 2017, Sessions instructed the US attorney for Utah, John Huber, to look into several issues related to Trump’s 2016 opponent.
"While it has been overshadowed by Trump’s fury at the Mueller probe, critics say Sessions’ instructions to Huber were an alarming example of Trump successfully pressuring the nation’s top law enforcement officer into launching an investigation of a political opponent.
“It looks a lot like an attorney general trying to curry favor with an out-of-control boss,” Austin Evers, executive director of American Oversight, a liberal government watchdog group, told Mother Jones. “The Department of Justice opened an undefined investigation of Hillary Clinton based on the political demands of Congress and the president, not the existence of new evidence.”
"Sessions’ order to Huber is at the center of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that American Oversight is pursuing in federal court in Washington. The organization charges that senior Justice Department officials, including Huber and former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, acted in “bad faith” in the litigation by denying the existence of written communications conveying Sessions’ instructions to Huber. On Tuesday, the group asked a judge to allow discovery, rare in FOIA cases, so that it can seek additional information it says the department might be concealing.
"A spokeswoman for Huber referred questions to the department’s national spokeswoman, who did not comment before publication.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/04/jeff-sessions-john-huber-russia-hillary-clinton/
And this is the 'American Oversight' lawsuit filed August 26, 2019 referenced in the Mother Jones rant:
https://www.americanoversight.org/document/complaint-american-oversight-v-doj-john-hubers-investigation-into-hillary-clinton
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