Posted on 05/23/2020 5:41:38 AM PDT by SkyPilot
My take on Sessions:
1)wanted to be AG desperately
2)Disagreed with Trump on Russia
3)Did not want to lose beltway Senate club friends due to aggressively supporting POTUS.
4)Took the easy road because of those issues.
Bottom line is Jeff Sessions is a lamb and not a lion. He’ll fight POTUS harder than any of the coupists. How pathetic is that?
Jeff Sessions was a good Senator. But a very bad AG.
He recused himself over a hoax.
His time has come and gone.
He should relax and enjoy his retirement.
Maybe grow some watermelons in his back yard.
Agree. And now he’s displaying a shocking lack of introspection. He’s still acting like he did as AG: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Sessions kept his mouth shut and did nothing to reign in his out of control employees. By his refusal to even make one peep about what was going on he actively aided and abetted the attempted coup.
Spot on. It wasn’t like he was refusing to investigate a coup in the Energy Department or whatever. These were HIS employees that were seditiously assaulting the POTUS and his supporters. And he did nothing. Less than nothing. He enabled the coupists through inaction.
So he undermined himself instead, oh and his boss.
Trump did an interview with Lester Holt of NBC that aired two days after Comey was fired, in which he said he got rid of Comey over the Russia investigation. That last point is critical, and nobody here seems to have any interest in discussing it. Unless there was an angle to this that I'm not seeing, that seems to be a colossal big-mouth blunder on Trump's part.
Firing Comey was probably the thing that saved Trump.
What is beautiful is watching this whole thing come crumbling down as the enlightenment of the totality of the fraud is dawning on the American people.
I am having the time of my life watching this all unfold real time on Twitter and watching all the new folks coming in with more documentary information. It's a grand uprising of the citizenry against Trump's and Flynn's persecutors.
And for allowing what happened to Flynn to happen Jeff Session should burn in hell. That wasn't just politics. It was using the apparatus of government to ruin someone.
And sleepy Jeff just stood and watched it happen.
So no, Session was guilty of dereliction of duty.
Yes,when speaking of his tenure as AG I can most certainly agree with that.
He’ll fight POTUS harder than any of the coupists.
Sorry,can't agree with you there.
Sessions could have told the Democrats to pound sand and there was nothing they could do. He chose to believe his Senate buddies rather than the President.
It seems the GOPe decided early on to not support POTUS on anything Russia related. They vehemently disagreed with Trump’s campaign season rhetoric on NATO/Russia and figured he made his own bed there when Democrats attacked. No doubt the GOPe got a good laugh out of the Mueller coup assaulting POTUS and his supporters. We’re still waiting on Graham’s investigation of the Stone FIB raid, etc., etc.
The political optics were/are going to be bad via the media reporting regardless of what action their target takes or does not take.
Would have could have should have being past tense, however, it would have been pivotal if he had turned the tables early on and declared that he had information that he/they were being illegally spied upon and was going to do what ever it takes to get to the bottom of this and expose it for the American citizenry.
To go after the usurpers and accusers early on, turn the tables, bust the would be busters.
He, however, was and is from the crowd of be nice and perhaps we can get along and come to a mutually beneficial end to this, not realizing that the rats play mercilessly and with total ruthlessness, for the win.
I’ll be voting for Tuberville come July. Goodby Sessions!
“ In fact, the only thing worse than that is that Trump ever hired him in the first place...”
This. The recusal from a person like Sessions, a U.S. Senator...in the “club” was almost inevitable. That wasn’t the real issue.
The real issue is Trump needed wrecking balls throughout the bureaucracy, throughout the federal structure. Not only didn’t he have them, he didn’t even know what he needed. He didn’t know where the real problems were...he only knew about the high-end result of those problems that were the issues he ran on, the Iran deal, the economic sell-outs on trade and international finance, the stupid military policy of adventurism while degrading the military capability, the porous border. He could see the results, he could see the the country deteriorating rapidly, but he didn’t understand how much of it came from the structure...and the staffing...of the massive federal bureaucracy. The permanent government.
The permanent government wanted war with him, and at least at first he just wanted to work on some of the top level policies, and ignore the mass of the iceberg under the water.,,,because that is so much less interesting. He was a political and GOVERNMENT neophyte. He didn’t understand where the real trouble, the real problems, were. So he stepped right into their traps and they’ve pretty much pummeled him mercilessly for his entire first term...and he’s barely even shot back...except in the relatively lame public pronouncements that don’t actually accomplish much. This wasn’t what he wanted, but he didn’t know he was really a revolution and he needed to act in the ruthless manner of real revolutions and put people in positions who would take no quarter and clean out the stables. He just wanted to play with policy at the top end. He didn’t know how things have been constructed and operate in the federal government. And he had enemies everywhere, literally everywhere, who wanted to destroy what they saw as a real threat to their exalted permanent power - though really he likely wasnt...because that wasn’t where he was focused.
He needed to have an army of Like-minded revolutionaries ready to go into every corner of the bureaucracy and start cleaning it out at the outset...5,000 Grenells. In reality, he had nothing coming in, no plans, not even an idea of where the real trouble was...there were maybe two or three dozen in all of Washington who did...the system is very efficient at putting those like-minded or easily co-opted into positions where the interests of the system are preserved and perpetuated.
Trump need to be a revolutionary...needed to wield the wrecking ball early and often and effectively. He needed an army of effective, give no quarter types who understood the bureaucracy. He didn’t even have the first idea that this is what was needed, I suspect he knows this very well now.
There are more posters on this thread than in the audience to The Blaze.
Trump didn’t read or had no one around him who had ever read “The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli”.
Rat’s when taking power live by it !
For example, what did Slick do when he took office? Immediately fire all the US attorneys.
After his meeting with Admiral Rogers he should have fired all IC directors and deputy directors. He didn’t! I guess he thought he was dealing with professionals. I don’t know what he thought! Anyone appointed by the Clintons or Obamas for anything are there to do the bidding of the Clintons & Obamas. If they do anything that the actual job entails its an afterthought! I know he thought initially that after a few months the Rat butthurt would go away. Rush told him it wouldn’t. I don’t even think Rush could have imagined the extent the depth and the manner in which the Rat butthurt would take.
Jeff Sessions Confronts Trump on Twitter Over His ‘Anger’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3847757/posts
Sessions has legal training and any attorney or pro se knows when you claim protection from a law, you cite the law in question. This critical fact is missing from 99% of the Freepers responding to this topic. Sad.
And so with most of Alabama.
The country watched three years of unbridled assault on a President because Session didn’t understand the law. Not only that, he setup a process that had the AG threatening to wear a wire to frame the president.
People of Alabama are ashamed of this man.......
And so with most of Alabama.
The country watched three years of unbridled assault on a President because Session didn’t understand the law. Not only that, he setup a process that had the AG threatening to wear a wire to frame the president.
People of Alabama are ashamed of this man.......
Speaking of liars, Sessions took a Tuberville quote out of context and falsely claimed that Tuberville was pro amnesty.
and has bashed Trump nastily in the past.
Tuberville was pissed at Trump because of what he was seeing in the VA. Tuberville met with Trump and now thinks Trump is doing a good job at the VA.
Also he seems REALLY dumb, and likely to follow deep state matters like a puppy.
No, that was Sessions when he recused himself.
I’m sure Jane Fonda’s actions in North Vietnam and elsewhere could be construed as “I’m trying to put an end to this damn stupid war.” I’m naturally suspicious of all virtue signalling moralists.
But you’re right about the goal lefties of today; EXCEPT they view it as a war against us.
Sessions knew with his recusal he had lost the President's faith in him. That ALONE should have prompted a resignation from Sessions. The President deserved a fully functional AG.
But instead of resigning, this egotistical SOB used his friends in the Senate and DOJ as public shields against termination and chose to do public battle with the POTUS---at whose pleasure he was supposed to serve..
So he stayed ... and ushered in the unencumbered Mueller investigation putting the President, his administration and the nation through three years of absolute hell.
There is no nobility in Jeff Sessions.
I am inclined to believe that or that he was blackmailed. I don't think he's been a closet leftists or never Trumper type his whole career. It would have been best for all concerned if Trump had just left him in the Senate. He'd still be an ally and someone who was up to the job would have been AG and prevented all that Mueller nonsense.
But now it's best if he rode off into the sunset.
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