I don't either.
Posted on 05/23/2020 5:44:06 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
President Trump lashed out at former Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Twitter Saturday evening, accusing the GOP Alabama Senate candidate of 'ruining lives' when he decided to recuse himself from the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Russia probe.
The tweet from Trump slamming Sessions is the latest installment in a back-and-forth between the two over Memorial Day Weekend.
“Jeff, you had your chance & you blew it. Recused yourself ON DAY ONE (you never told me of a problem), and ran for the hills. You had no courage, & ruined many lives,” Trump shared, retweeting Sessions’s earlier rebuke.
“The dirty cops, & others, got caught by better & stronger people than you. Hopefully this slime will pay a big price. You should drop out of the race & pray that super liberal @DougJones, a weak & pathetic puppet for Crazy Nancy Pelosi & Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, gets beaten badly. He voted for impeachment based on “ZERO”. Disgraced Alabama. Coach @TTuberville will be a GREAT Senator!” Trump continued.
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Nothing happened to Sessions. He was true to his form all along.
Yet Trump gives Rosenstein, whom he nominated.
Trump only has himself to blame. He is pissed because Sessions wouldn’t be a fixer.
Yo Trump, the AG isn’t your consigliere.
LOL. Without a doubt the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on FR. PS, Rosendirtbag isn’t running for Senate.
I don't either.
Try and keep up.
Yep. I think he was sold on an inevitable impeachment song and dance by the deep state and decided he would rather flee his office duties than stay and do his job.
And that’s the most charitable scenario I could muster.
He’s either of the three propositions.
1. A coward.
2. A fool.
3. A co-conspirator
Sessions tried to fire him if memory serves, and Trump hired him back.
We owe Trump, because he changed our course on China, which Sessions tried and failed to do something about.
Trump is clearly the abler politician, but Sessions had the good sense to back him when few others would. I hate to see these two at odds. I really do.
Sessions is disappointment and no idea why he did what he did
If it all could have been stopped, Trump would have stopped it. But it couldn’t have been stopped. Not by Trump. Not by Sessions.
Trump could have fired Sessions - and withdrawn the Rod Rosenstein nomination - sixty seconds after Sessions recused.
Instead, Trump did NOTHING for two years - except fecklessly defend himself with an occasional Tweet storm.
Sessions and Rosenstein both happened on Trump's watch.
The responsibility for what happened next belongs to Trump - and no one else.
Keep up? June 2017 article:
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/
That’s not exactly what happened. Rosenstein submitted his resignation as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Maryland as is routinely done when the AG is appointed in a new administration. But Rosenstein had already been nominated for Deputy AG by that time, so his resignation was “rejected” so he could stay in his U.S. Attorney post while awaiting his confirmation.
So, what took Trump so long to get mad?
Trump could have fired Sessions - and withdrawn the Rod Rosenstein nomination - sixty seconds after Sessions recused.
Instead, Trump did NOTHING for two years - except fecklessly defend himself with an occasional Tweet storm.
Sessions and Rosenstein both happened on Trump’s watch.
The responsibility for what happened next belongs to Trump - and no one else.
All lies. I will commend you for being consistent.
POTUS in fact floated trial balloons to fire both Sessions and Mueller. He was then publicly threatened by his own party not to do that. Grassley said he didn’t have time to confirm Session’s replace and Graham infamously threatened to author a Mueller Coup protection act.
Now that the record has been correct feel free to withdraw your smear of President Trump.
*courtesy ping*
Rosenstein was the Trump pick who knifed him in the back.
There is a small Freeper chorus that finds this distasteful. Tough s__t. As Limbaugh has said innumerable times, and accurately so, “this is what draining The Swamp looks like”. It was never going to be pretty. It by the very nature of the task is going to be quite ugly. And, it will take a monumental level of effort and perseverance.
No politician is up to this task. Only a man like Trump is up to it.
It is quite obvious that there are those here on this site that haven’t the stomach to be a witness to Draining The Swamp let alone spearhead it. To those people may I suggest reruns of Mr. Rogers.
Trump has nobody to blame but himself for this fiasco. In his recent interview on Fox News, his explanation for hiring Sessions was pathetic: “He was loyal to me from the start of the campaign and he begged me for the job three times!” If that’s what gets you hired into the Trump cabinet, then no wonder the place was filled with misfits and losers from the first day.
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And his alternative was WHAT? Obama-lovers and swamp creatures.
Trump is clearly the abler politician, but Sessions had the good sense to back him when few others would. I hate to see these two at odds. I really do.
Sessions backed Trump when nobody thought he was going to win. Then when he won he did not back him. That does not seem sensible to me. Sounds like the behavior typical useless US Senator. And that is exactly what Sleepy Sessions is.
agree-this is not Trump at his best, why waste time trying to get revenge in the press, knowing they will play it as him being petty, if we lose in Nov, Senate and Presidency this is why, independents and women in particular hate this side of Trump. Shame, he does great on policy then gets impulsive
McCarthy completely misses the point. Sessions’ recusal was driven by political considerations, not necessarily a legal requirement. He was right to recuse himself — especially since he already knew that he had been under illegal surveillance for the entire 2016 campaign — but for the same reason he should never have taken the job in the first place.
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