Posted on 05/25/2020 1:57:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
During his 20 years in the U.S. Senate, Jeff Sessions was a solid conservative who was right on issues such as stopping illegal immigration. He was the first U.S. senator to endorse Donald Trump for president and was rewarded with one of the most coveted appointments in the new administration. Trump appointed Sessions to be U.S. attorney general.
Unfortunately, Sessions was a cowardly leader of the Department of Justice. He permitted Deep State operatives to remain in key positions. He recused himself from the Russia investigation, allowing his deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, to appoint Robert Mueller as Special Counsel.
The resulting investigation cost almost $40 million and lasted 22 months. It was a travesty of justice as the Mueller team, dominated by Democratic Party attorneys and activists, found no Russian collusion, and could not prove the president or his associates obstructed justice in any way. This did not stop them from harassing the president and forcing several of his campaign operatives into guilty pleas on charges that had nothing to do with Russia.
Sessions unleashed this holy hell upon President Trump by recusing himself and allowing the appointment of Mueller. The investigation was a partisan attempt to overturn the 2016 election results, in effect, it was an attempted political coup d’état. In the last administration, then U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder famously proclaimed that he would be Barack Obama’s “wingman.” He protected Barack Obama throughout his tenure. Such loyalty may not be appropriate for a U.S. attorney general, but it is quite a contrast to the betrayal that President Trump received from Jeff Sessions.
The biased witch hunt, known as the Mueller investigation, infuriated President Trump. He has rightly never forgiven Sessions, who is now running for his old position as U.S. senator from Alabama.
In an upcoming July GOP runoff, Sessions is facing former Auburn University Football Coach Tommy Tuberville. The latest poll shows Tuberville with a very comfortable lead over Sessions. The winner will face incumbent U.S. Senator Doug Jones, a Democrat, in the general election.
Jones was elected after Sessions resigned to take the position of U.S. attorney general. He benefited from the GOP infighting over his general election opponent, former Judge Roy Moore, who was accused of inappropriate behavior with a variety of young girls earlier in his career. The firestorm allowed Jones to win in a state that is normally very Republican.
Thus, Sessions not only cost president Trump two years of distraction and harassment, but he also cost the Republican Party a U.S. Senate seat.
In this election, President Trump enthusiastically endorsed Tuberville and has demanded that Sessions stop using his name in the campaign. The president labeled Sessions “delusional” for trying to fool Alabama voters into thinking he has always been a staunch Trump supporter.
If he is re-elected for another term, President Trump will need loyal supporters in Congress, not weaklings like Jeff Sessions. Therefore, he is committed to playing an active role in the U.S. Senate race in Alabama.
On Friday night, The president tweeted, “3 years ago, after Jeff Sessions recused himself, the Fraudulent Mueller Scam began. Alabama, do not trust Jeff Sessions. He let our Country down. That’s why I endorsed Coach Tommy Tuberville.”
This attack from the president was too much for Sessions who fired back on Twitter, “Look, I know your anger, but recusal was required by law. I did my duty & you're damn fortunate I did. It protected the rule of law & resulted in your exoneration. Your personal feelings don't dictate who Alabama picks as their senator, the people of Alabama do.”
Ironically, Sessions showed more boldness in fighting back against President Trump than he ever did as U.S. attorney general. He allowed career bureaucrats force him into a recusal that almost destroyed the Trump presidency.
Responding to Sessions, Tuberville tweeted that Jeff Sessions “is so desperate, he told @realDonaldTrump to thank him for the immoral & unconscionable Russia investigation! The only people who seem to agree are Democrats.”
Tuberville is correct as many legal experts disagree with Jeff Sessions that his “recusal was required by law.” He had only incidental meetings with Russian leaders and was not “compromised” or “conflicted” in any way. He could have surely overseen the Russian investigation to determine it was a fabrication based on the phony political document known as the “Steele dossier.”
Instead of standing up to the Deep State, Sessions folded and cowered. He was a joke of an attorney general, which is why the president said he would have never appointed him if he knew Sessions was going to recuse himself. He also called the appointment of Sessions his worst mistake as president.
On July 14, Republican voters will go to the polls in Alabama to pick their U.S. Senate nominee. They are choosing between a political newcomer with solid conservative credentials and a winning record as a college football coach. Clearly, Tommy Tuberville knows how to win and has done it throughout his career.
Opposing him is a true loser, Jeff Sessions, who was given a historic opportunity to assist the Trump administration and his country as U.S. Attorney General. Instead of standing up to political enemies, he was bullied by them into a recusal that led to the most egregious political witch hunt in American history.
Jeff Sessions had a chance for greatness, but he was too scared to do the right thing. At this point, he does not deserve another term as a U.S. senator as he is not the best candidate for the position. Hopefully, the voters of Alabama will deliver to Jeff Sessions, the political retirement he richly deserves.
Sessions took his treasonous shot at removing the president and failed.
An honorable man would have done us a favor and taken his own life, but the little wretch is running for office as a conservative Trump supporter.
In a just world, the little prick would be hanging, disemboweled, from a lamp post.
Dittos x a trillion!
It is an open primary.
“I can hate Sessions and support him if it means getting the seat back.”
The big questions is did he learn anything and is he now willing to fight for us and The Constitution????
When Sessions dies, I vote we put him in J. McCains grave along side the McCain‘s stain on our country.
I don’t care that he was on the good side at a certain time.
He DID fail his biggest test.
I get the impression that the president goes to sleep thinking about Session’s recusal, and he wakes up the next day thinking about Sessions recusal.
Can’t say that I blame him. That one act made all that followed far easier than it ever could have been.
When there is a vacuum of power in an active system, something else will quickly assume that power.
Sessions was NOT a leader, he was just in way over his head he should have been honest with Trump in the beginning that the job was over his head! Some people are meant to be leaders some are not Trump should have known from his business experience that Sessions was not leader material!! I don’t hold it against Sessions!! Sessions situation was Trumps fault!
AMEN!
The GOP has a fatal flaw and this was exemplified during the Obama administration when we saw the most partisan of behavior by government bureaucrats.
The GOP wants to play by the rules - Obama did not care.
The GOP trusted bureaucrats - Obama politicized them.
The GOP wants to treat others as they would want to be treated - Obama put winning above all things
Sessions 1) failed to realize how politicized the DOJ had become and 2) he valued protocol and the advice of career officials whom he viewed incorrectly as non-partisan. He should have also told Trump 3) that he would recuse himself as many of us saw what was about to happen clearly.
On top of that, even after his recusal, Sessions could have looked at the make-up of the Special Counsel team and waved the BS flag. He didn’t. Another easy call to make that the rest of us saw clearly.
I don’t question Sessions motives like some here do frequently. Overall, I think he is a decent person. However, as a swamp creature (and a Senator) he was ill-equipped to recognize what was happening and far too trusting that the DOJ was not politicized. As a result, he was the most damaging appointee to the Cabinet in my lifetime.
He got played like a sucker and Trump and the rest of us are still paying the bill for it. The fact that he cannot recognize how he got played by his subordinates (he still defends them!) is infuriating and disqualifying in my opinion for any future position as a government leader or member of congress.
Alabama is normally a very tough state for RATS to win. Last election Roy Moore was successfully smeared as some kind of pedophile. Moore has little charisma but the main reason he lost was that he is an incorruptible conservative Christian. Just the kind of man that the District of Corruption needs and therefore resists the most. Both sides of the aisle worked to make sure he lost.
To this day justice is being denied to Roy Moore as leftist judges keep on finding ways to delay his lawsuit against those who slandered him.
I will even go further...how many seats were lost over the whole Russia collusion lie? For 2 years that crap went on while Sessions did nothing. He fired some Obummer people, fought child traffickers, and was good on illegal aliens. But as you said, he tried to be civil while the other side behaved like savages.
Oh, Nooooooooo!
Looks for Dems to flood in and vote for Sessions.
Second That.
Read something (not sure that it was an accurate headline) about “the law” that Sessions reportedly referred to at some point was not even appropriate to his particular situation, or his federal position, or some such.
Now, I’m curious what law it was that got past him and was used by Boente to flim flam him into his highly principled recusal. Geeez.
Admittedly I know nothing about Tuberville, but if Alabama sends Sessions back to Congress I think I’ll throw up.
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OK. Throw up and vote for him anyway — to keep the Senate — and save Country.
Yep. History will reconcile Neville Chamberlain’s actions, but not The Stealth Assassin Jeff Sessions’.
Britain wasn’t ready for war and Chamberlain knew it. Jeff has no such alibi.
POTUS spoke to him clearly about stepping down. No one, not even Jeff is that dense. He is clearly an enemy of the people.
Wow.. never even thought of that possibility but you may very well be right how awful
He’ll be another John McCain and at the right moment just selling the Republican party and stabbed Trump in the back again.
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If the Democrats take the Senate, we’ll get stabbed deeper and more often.
You’re just too sensitive I can tell ha
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