Posted on 07/20/2017 1:22:47 PM PDT by blam
There is something more than a little jarring in the ongoing humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
In an ill-timed, ill-focused interview with the NYT, President Trump revisited his disdain for Sessions, his first, most-ardent and most-loyal supporter in the Senate.
When supporting Trump was still considered career suicide, Sessions donned the red cap anyway. Maybe it will prove fatal for Sessions’ career, after all.
The president has not made a secret of the fact that he blames Sessions for the scandal that now engulfs the Trump administration, claiming in contravention of all available evidence that somehow if Sessions had not recused himself from the investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign that his White House will not be under siege.
“How do you take a job and then recuse yourself?” Trump asked reporters rhetorically. “If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair – and that’s a mild word – to the president.”
Sessions seems an odd target for Trump’s blame, given how other members of his inner circle including his son, his son-in-law, his former campaign chairman and his former national security advisor have all laid the president open to the scrutiny of special counsel Robert Mueller.
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That seems to be the case. Now what I still don't understand is why Republicans do this to themselves. Sessions recuses himself after meeting the Russian ambassador at a cocktail party. Holder and Lynch on the other hand hold meetings with the Clintons while supposedly investigating them, hold meetings with #BLM while they are rioting in the streets, coordinate with DNC on public management of Clinton's email scandal, etc...
He was a pushover.
Some reason G.W.B. popped in my head..?
There is blunder 3. The easing of the civil seizers of assets by police without a crime being committed. It was said that only 4 or 5 cases are contested to get the assists back. Why; because they are connected to drugs was the answer. BS; take all their money then they can not fight you. Go Sessions you are on a roll! Never trust a congress person.
Not a single one of us knows the complete story, or why things are being said and done as they are.
Just ralax and let it roll. (Not that anyone here is going to change things anyhow)
Sessions didn’t just Screw Trump, he Screwed everyone seeking Justice. Fire the whimpering Church Mouse.
Let me also explain clearly the circumstances of my recusal from the investigation into the Russian interference with the 2016 election. Please, colleagues, hear me on this. I was sworn in as Attorney General on Thursday, February 9th. The very next day as I had promised to the judiciary committee I would do at least at an early date, I met with the career department officials including a senior ethics official to discuss things publicly reported in the press that might have some bearing on whether or not I should recuse myself in this case. From that point, February 10th until I announced my formal recusal on March 2nd, I was never briefed on any investigative details, did not access any information about the investigation. I received only the limited information that the department's career officials determined was necessary for me to form and make a recusal decision.As such, I have no knowledge about this investigation as it is ongoing today beyond what has been reported. I don't even read that carefully. I have taken no action whatsoever with regard to any such investigation. On the date of my formal recusal, my chief of staff sent an e-mail to the heads of relevant departments including by name to director Comey of the FBI to instruct them to inform their staffs of this recusal and advise them not to brief me or involve me in any way in any such matters. In fact they have not. Importantly I recuse myself not because of any asserted wrongdoing or any that I may have been involved in any wrongdoing in the campaign, but because a Department of Justice regulation, 28 cfr 45.2 I felt required it.
That regulation states in effect that department employees should not participate in investigations of a campaign if they served as a campaign adviser. So the scope of my recusal however does not and cannot interfere with my ability to oversee the Department of Justice, including the FBI which has an $8 billion budget and 35,000 employees. I presented to the president my concerns and those of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about the ongoing leadership issues at the FBI as stated in my letter recommending the removal of Mr. Comey along with the Deputy Attorney General's memorandum on that issue, which have been released by the White House. Those represent a clear statement of my views. I adopted Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein's points he made in his memorandum and made my recommendation. It is absurd, frankly, to suggest that a recusal from a single specific investigation would render the attorney general unable to manage the leadership of the various department of justice law enforcement components that conduct thousands of investigations.
“in an ill-timed, ill-focused interview with the NYT,”
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What objective, unbiased reporting. Why not let the public decide if the interview was “ill-timed” and “ill-focused”?
I thought that was part of their slogan, “We report, you decide.”
I believe you are correct...There’s a whole lot more to this than what it seems...
Some in here are way too quick to jump...
Trump is no “professional politician”...He does not think like they do, and he is no fool...
I think Trump and Sessions together are running a fix on the liberal media/politicians....Some things just take time to fully and thoroughly get the results wanted...
That’s my hope!
That work of which you speak needs to include a publicized investigation into the many many felonies committed by the democrats in the previous administration, along with a firm promise to the American people that nobody is above the law and prosecutions WILL happen for any and all violations of the law by the criminals in charge for the last 8 years.
Put ‘em in jail or pack your [stuff] and bail.
Inaction by the good guys is a huge green light for the bad guys to steamroll their way to the destruction of this country.
Exactly right.....
Chris Stirewalt?
I stop listening when I see that ignoramus Trump hater.
He still can’t believe his predictions about a huge Trump defeat turned out so wrong.
I hope those safeguards don’t get in the way, for example, if the opportunity should present itself to force a certain crooked money laundering “foundation” to forfeit its assets.
If so, the man who reinstituted them might look like a hero.
If the recusal was really a problem then Trump would have given this interview months ago.
He can't be gone soon enough to suit me. His behavior has been so damaging to President Trump, that part of me thinks Sessions intentionally ingratiated himself to Trump early on so he could back-stab him. As it is, by his actions as AG, he has materially damaged the President and has set back his agenda. And now the little ferret says he won't resign, which only adds to Trump's difficulties.
Sessions should un-recuse himself and disband the special counsel. Sessions should tell anyone who does not like it to pound sand.
I’m sure you are right. Look at Comey...no time to pack/unpack before he was evicted.
Maybe all this will light a fire under Session’s ass....and he will start being more proactive and effective in helping to advance the agenda that got Trump elected.
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