Posted on 05/12/2020 3:38:22 AM PDT by knighthawk
Save it, wimp.
He’s worse than a moron. He is a blackmailed Deep State moron.
We really don’t know how early he planned to become a stealth bomber in a potential and then actual Trump presidency.
But we know that Trump’s subsequent rationale for naming him AG was incredibly weak: he’s incompetent but he backed me early, so I felt indebted, essentially.
Not the way to go to battle in the DC Swamp.
“He knew what he was going to do before he accepted the job”
It’s hard to imagine that what you say is not true.
However, should Trump or his staff have realized that Sessions was likely to do what he did?
“To give him credit, this was at a time when better candidates were being actively discouraged, even threatened, from taking a job with the Trump admin.”
Trump stated in the campaign he was going to hire outside the Washington political class. He stated he had a rolodex full of great people from the business world wanting to come to Washington to use their management skills to clean up the mess.
Trump failed with many of his key hires because -
1) He didn’t know them. Some like Mattis and Rex Tillerson he hired after one meeting.
2) He had no transition effort during the campaign. Chris Christie was head of the transition team. Either Christie tried, and Trump didn’t spend any time to make sure he had key positions ready to go the day after election, or Christie did nothing. Perhaps neither Trump nor Christie thought he would win so they didn’t spend any time to identify and vet people for at least the top 50 positions.
3) Trump’s ego may have resulted in him overestimating the willingness of the “wonderful” people in his rolodex to work for him. It may be business acquaintances, outside of his organization, did not like his management style and personality and wouldn’t give up their positions to work for Trump.
4) Many members of the GOP establishment were unwilling to work for Trump after they had been trashed by him throughout the campaign. Others, more career minded than patriotic, decided their careers would be better served by staying out of what was perceived an approaching train wreck.
The day after election Trump was unprepared to assume office. In the modern era, by the day after election most cabinet members and key administration officials (DNI, Chief of Staff) have been selected, are well known to the candidate, and have been vetted. All that is needed are the final phone calls to make sure the chosen are still willing to serve. New presidents begin announcing the players who will be getting the key jobs within days. The goal is to get them approved by the Senate by inauguration day in January.
Having failed to do the prep work, Trump had to pick a team quickly without sufficient time to interview and vet the key players, much less determine if their skills and chemistry would allow them to work effectively with him and the rest of the team. Great business executives and leaders build teams under them with great care knowing they can only achieve their objectives if the people under them are effective in their jobs and work well together. Much time and effort goes into finding, vetting and wooing each candidate. The process of filing key positions often takes months and multiple meetings. Having failed to do the prep work during the campaign Trump had no time to get to know the people he was hiring. Some (Tillerson and Mattis) he hired after one short meeting.
Whatever the reason, Trump as the leader is responsible for his selections. The long delay in filling positions, and the high turnover in key positions, suggest Trump’s people selection and team building skills were not well suited to this new management challenge. If a business CEO hires a new VP of manufacturing after meeting him for the first time during a one hour interview, the board of directors will not be sympathetic to the CEO if that Vice President fails because he is either incompetent or not a team player. Likewise it is fair for the people to evaluate Trump based on his personnel selections and their success or failure. So far, on that dimension of performance, Trump at best deserves a C-.
Frankly I expected much better from him.BULLSHIT!
Or you're just too stupid to know there wasn't a huge pool of people waiting to work for Trump. Too stupid to know he didn't have a lot of choices.
The only fool in this picture is you.
“Frickin’ weasel” is too kind.
“You don’t take a sitting Senator whose chances for re-election are excellent and appoint him to anything.”
I will argue that there isn’t now and there has never been any Senator that was or is worth a damn!
In one of the episodes of the Netflix series, Ozark, a character who looks suspiciously like Sessions (a mortician) is referred to as a Keebler Elf. Also, a couple of the shadier characters are described as Republicans. These Hollywood elites simply can't help themselves.
bump
Trust Sessions may have meant to trust President Trump’s selection of him. It looks like he may have been a vital tool used by the left. Hopefully he had a larger role in the coup and can be leveraged to cooperate once his Senate hopes evaporate.
I believe his recusal was because Roseinstein convinced him it was required by law and not to worry, he (Rosienstein) would take care of everything. I also believe Sessions was like a fish out of water at DOJ and leaned on the career lawyers (mostly Democrats) to do his thinking.
Fact.
The real “Insurance Policy”
I had a ninth-grade science teacher whose favorite thing to say (to me) was, “That is not an excuse. That is a reason for failure”.
Some people never learn.
Hell...it took the Republican Congressional people 2.5 years to finally get on board.
So resign then Jeffie! You have no credibility left.
Come on, Jeff!
The whole thing was as political as it could get.
You had lunch with the Russian Ambassador, who has lunch with everyone, eventually.
You met him at some meeting with a bunch of other senators.
The LAW did NOT require you to consider that investigationally suspect, and any democrat saying so was blowing it out their fatass. There was no there, there.
The whole thing was a huge political knife in the back, that you watched happen like a spectator at coliseum.
Eric Holder would have pitched a fit had they tried 1/16 of what they did to Trump if it was Obama. You could have condemned the more ostentatious aspects of it.
Sleepy Keebler Elf gets no sympathy from this Alabama voter.
You’re over Jeff.
Fox News is ignorant. We’re called “Alabamians”.
May 25 is a long weekend
Just sayin
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