President Trump continues pummeling Jeff Sessions, but this time he punches back

The Blaze ^ | 22 May 20 | Carlos Garcia

[sport]

Bull shit! I trusted sessions and lived to regret it. I never trusted Wray. I trusted and still trust President Trump. I hope that the voters of Alabama don’t choose sessions but I will not be surprised if they do. And that is malarkey to the nth degree that sessions was overwhelmed by the manner that D.C. operated. He had been in the Senate for years.He was very comfortable and familiar with life in the D.C. jungle. He only pretended to support and be friends with President Trump to get close enough to stab him in the back. He is only “punching back” now because he thinks that this virus scam has weakened President Trump.

[lodi90]

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.

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You mean this law?

Attorney General Sessions’s Recusal Was Unnecessary By Andrew C. McCarthy

Nonetheless, it was unnecessary for Sessions to recuse himself from the broader counterintelligence investigation. It is not a criminal inquiry, and Regulation 45.2 explicitly applies only to criminal investigation or prosecution.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/06/jeff-sessions-recusal-unnecessary/

[Gay State Conservative]

I suppose that that’s possible.He doesn’t strike me as the mistress type or as being a fraudster but I suppose there might be something in his past that could be *called* iffy by the Amazon Compost.

[Vaduz]

Color Jeff Sessions gone.

[lodi90]

Sessions had to defend himself, but recusal was NOT required by law. Sessions thought he was being noble.

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Sessions had no stomach for a fight over Russia. Like the rest of the GOP he had no interest in that because they hated Trump’s campaign season break with orthodoxy there. Had the Dems tried to get Sessions to recuse over dope legalization he would have fought them like a lion. Instead, as is typical in the Age of Trump, a beltway career type thought they knew better than the POTUS on policy and refused to support Trump’s.

[dfwgator]

“Nobility” is the GOP disease, they are so afraid to get into the mud, they think it above them. But like it or not, the Rats are going to drag them into the mud, no matter what they do. Trump understands this, the rest of them don’t.

[Reily]

It’s far easier to explain Sessions’ actions by “He’s really not very smart!”. Smart enough to latch on to Trump but not smart enough to know what to do once he got there.

oh yeah

Trust the plan
Trust Sessions
and whatever!

[Cedar]

“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”

So many extremely-talented and professional people are here at FR, and they would have been loyal to President Trump.

I posted the suggestion back then on a thread about his hiring Freepers instead of more DC people.

[Alberta's Child]

Firing Comey was probably the thing that saved Trump.

I agree. My point was that history would have unfolded very differently if Trump hadn't blundered his way onto NBC/Concast and told a leftist media hack that he had done it for reasons that weren't the ones documented in the Sessions and Rosenstein memos/letters.

President Trump sat there on national television and undermined his own senior DOJ officials. He should be the first one to know that loyalty is a two-way street.

[SamAdams76]

Sessions was an early supporter of Trump in the 2016 election cycle and that is how he earned a top spot in the Trump Administration in my opinon.

Recusal was definitely a weak move on Sessions' part. It put Trump in an awful spot early in his Administration. Trump couldn't really fire him at that point as it would have been seen as retaliation and compared to the "Saturday Night Massacre" episode of the Nixon Administration.

If Sessions felt that strongly about recusal, he should have simply resigned and given Trump the opportunity to hire an AG that would have had his back.

I can understand why Trump is so angry and bitter about this.

[Fledermaus]

Please Alabama, do not screw the entire country by sending this piece of human scum back to the US Senate.

[SkyPilot]

Sessions is 73 years old. He was in the Senate for 20 years. He was U.S. Attorney for 12 years and Alabama A.G. for 2 years. He was a disaster of U.S. A.G. for 2 years. Why does a 73 year old man want back into politics, especially after what Trump and THE WHOLE COUNTRY has been through because of him?

My guess is feckless Sessions wants redemption.

Political redemption.

As others here have pointed out, Sessions was very comfortable in the D.C. Senate Club.

He was a disaster as Attorney General. Now that General Flynn has been cleared, and the Acting Director of National Intelligence (Grenell) released documents, the attempted coup and the facts thereof are only going to become more and more public.

The attempted coup against Trump, followed by the Russian Hoax and persecution of the President and his associates was and is the biggest political scandal in American history.

And it grew and expanded on Session's watch. And, he knows it. He was a coward, and he knows that too.

Sessions figures if he can get back into the D.C. Senate Club, he will be with his old buddies on "both sides of the aisle" again. Maybe he will get one of his old Committees back and can be called "Mr. Chairman" again in the Senate elevator?

Sessions figures that the President will have to make nice with him, and come begging for his vote on budgets and Senate votes on legislation.

Then, Jeff will have redeemed himself, and his cowardice will all be in the past.

[philman_36]

The early bird gets the worm!

[WASCWatch]

All Sessions had to do is look at the FBI 302s and question his subordinates; and he would have known there was no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.

Sessions was major advisor to Trump during the campaign, so he would had to know there was no collusion.

[lodi90]

I’d probably be willing to give Sessions a mulligan on recusal if he had admitted his mistake and then gone hammer and tongs against Deep State coupists.

Instead, he has doubled down on his selfish mistake that caused so much pain and continues to cover up the DOJ’s role in the ongoing coup. Given that he is dead to me.

[Swirl]

“Trump couldn’t really fire him at that point as it would have been seen as retaliation and compared to the “Saturday Night Massacre” episode of the Nixon Administration. “

Lets not forget Lindsey and others threatened Trump if he were to fire Sessions.

[Swirl]

“So many extremely-talented and professional people are here at FR, and they would have been loyal to President Trump.”

McConnel would make sure that none of us would get even a hearing. This is why we ended up with Barr as Sessions replacement.

[Zhang Fei]

[My point was that history would have unfolded very differently if Trump hadn’t blundered his way onto NBC/Concast and told a leftist media hack that he had done it for reasons that weren’t the ones documented in the Sessions and Rosenstein memos/letters. ]

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I like Trump, but he’s got a big mouth that remains unconstrained in spite of the numerous bouts of legal jeopardy that this mouth of his has gotten him into. If Roy Cohn were still alive, he might have gotten the Donald to pipe down. Most pols have outsized egos, but Trump’s ego has overcome even his instincts for self-preservation. It’s like the perils of Pauline, except this time, he’s dropping land mines in the path of his chosen route.

[Pelham]

[Pelham]

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/45.2

28 CFR § 45.2 - Disqualification arising from personal or political relationship.

(a) Unless authorized under paragraph (b) of this section, no employee shall participate in a criminal investigation or prosecution if he has a personal or political relationship with:

(1) Any person or organization substantially involved in the conduct that is the subject of the investigation or prosecution; or

(2) Any person or organization which he knows has a specific and substantial interest that would be directly affected by the outcome of the investigation or prosecution.

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(c) For the purposes of this section:

(1) Political relationship means a close identification with an elected official, a candidate (whether or not successful) for elective, public office, a political party, or a campaign organization, arising from service as a principal adviser thereto or a principal official thereof; and

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Sessions had participated in Trump’s campaign as early as August 21, 2015