What I can see I see pretty clearly and so tell me how Sessions could stop this in some effective way other than just saying stop and directing that the investigation by the FBI just end. Was that the only investigation?
Trump certainly could not do it nor direct someone else to end it. Maybe he could but it would not end well.
So please explain the practical process by which Sessions could have ended this silliness that would have in fact and politically ended well. I would like to not only see what is going on but to know it and understand it.
You assert as fact something that we can’t possibly know and that is the feelings Sessions has in the matter. It is a fact that he did not stop the investigation and did recuse himself from it but beyond his belief that he had no legal choice but to recuse himself we know no other fact about his motivation be it pride, prejudice or lack of intestinal fortitude. I’d also wager that Trump knew what he was going to do well before he did it.
As I have ponted out earlier, this whole affair including the appointment of Mueller has happened in a flash as it has been scripted for some insane reason.
You sound like a very reasonable person and I will give you a very reasonable answer. All that Jeff Sessions had to do was not act in the way that he did. He didn't have to do anything. But he chose a course of action which was detrimental to not only the President, but the nation.
You say we cannot determine his motivation, but his very statements betray that fact. He was guarding his reputation. Period.
At the very best, we will come out of this with the wounded presidency. At the worst, Trump will be destroyed. And so will his agenda. Immigration reform. Rebuilding the military. Saving the economy. Name it.
But Jeff Sessions can say he was above it all, in his slow, weird manner.