Posted on 07/24/2017 7:50:29 AM PDT by Helicondelta
No!!! Gialiani is old and corrupt. He’d be a horrible choice that would embarrass Trump. Too bad Christi embarrassed himself so much with BridgeGate, anti-second amendment positions, and a failed state as I otherwise like his style we saw in the debates. We do need a go-getter, by-the-book, prosecutor that will engage challenges, enforce the laws. Sessions is, as best as I can tell, working part time, wakes up occasionally, but has not effectively led. A failure.
Rudy Giuliani has been out of office for 16 years, and anyone who has followed him over the years will tell you that age has caught up to him.
TMI... really.
‘No one played a bigger role in defeating the multiple attempts to pass amnesty since 2006 than Jeff Sessions.’
Simply not true. Amnesty PASSED in the Senate. It was set to pass in the House also. But days before the vote Cantor was unexpectedly defeated, and former House ‘yes,’ votes suddenly turned to ‘no.’ Boehner didn’t have enough votes, when the dust settled, to pass amnesty, so he tabled the bill indefinitely.
Those are the facts.
Now Giuliani is apparently saying that Sessions did the right thing in recusing himself.
Lol, you have no facts if you don't know that Sessions has played a larger role than any individual in Congress in defeating the multiple attempts to pass amnesty starting in 2006.
The speeches and information he presented were seen on TV and reported in many media outlets. Such influence spreads far beyond the Senate chamber to all corners of DC and the USA as a whole, and he also worked with members of the US House each time.
It's not what I equate or what you equate that matters. It's what Trump and his spokesmen (Kellyanne in this case) say that matters. And they did include the Clinton Foundation in the no plans to pursue a further investigation.
Or the AG enforcing our immigration laws.
It’s amazing to me that the same folks who - rightly so - excoriated Lynch and Holder for their actions (which were based solely on executing their party’s policy and their personal loyalty to Obama) are now attacking Jeff Sessions, who has spent his whole career dedicated to upholding the rule of law as defined by the Constitution, for not doing for Trump exactly what Obama’s minions did for him. The biggest mistake Sessions made was believing Trump and sacrificing himself to get Trump elected. I voted for Trump but if this is the way he treats one of the few decent men in Washington, he’ll never get my vote again.
This isn’t The Apprentice where he gets to humiliate and publicly disrespect good and decent people. Trump likely wouldn’t be POTUS without Sessions’ early and unwavering support. If he objects to Sessions’ decisions as one of his Cabinet heads, why doesn’t he express that directly to Sessions privately and request his resignation?
I believe it’s because he’s by nature a bully who thinks he has the right to mistreat anyone who does not agree with him 100% of the time. I’m not proud of my president today and this is NOT winning.
Despite Session’s best efforts, amnesty passed in the Senate With Ease. Afterward both Boehner and McCarthy did a whip count in the House and both confirmed that enough votes were locked in to assure passage there.
Meanwhile, Brat was running a grassroots insurgency in VA. As with Trump, none of the DC Permanent Political Class gave him a chance of winning. He was opposing Cantor, after all. Why would the voters defeat such a senior and powerful Rep.?
Brat won by the sweat and blood of non-professional politicians. They worked their butts off, as did he. To credit Sessions with Brat’s victory is disingenuous. Sessions no more campaigned for Brat than Cruz did. Stop taking the credit that belongs to Brat and his army of citizen foot soldiers and giving it to others.
No he’s not.
‘And they did include the Clinton Foundation in the no plans to pursue a further investigation.’
Absolutely false. At no time has Trump said TCF would get a pass. If he had, you’d link it.
Wouda, couda, SHOULD HAVE BEEN Trump’s FIRST choice. That was his first mistake.
>> I voted for Trump but if this is the way he treats one of the few decent men in Washington, he’ll never get my vote again.
...Trump likely wouldn’t be POTUS without Sessions’ early and unwavering support...why doesn’t he express that directly to Sessions privately and request his resignation?
I believe it’s because he’s by nature a bully who thinks he has the right to mistreat anyone who does not agree with him 100% of the time. I’m not proud of my president today and this is NOT winning.
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Interesting points, and I appreciate your perspective.
I think he’s been far too tolerant of Sessions, who has shown himself to be either very stupid and naive, or owned. None of us know for sure, but can only speculate why he has not pursued HRC, when the evidence is overwhelming. Just Weiner’s laptop alone is enough. Why is he praising Bundy prosecutors when he should be looking into Fed overreach? Why is he “cracking down” on mj when there are so many other more important issues? His priorities are all screwed up or he is part of the swamp who played a role.
That said, a President should be setting the AG’s priorities to reflect his own priorities. AGs serve at the pleasure of the President, and clearly, Sessions is not pleasing the President. We can only speculate as to motives and strategies at this point.
I see DJT as not a bully, but the forceful, brilliant strategist and alpha male God chose to pull us back off the cliff and restore our nation. My vote will be with God’s anointed.
Because he wants Sessions to do the right thing and resign.
Look, there are only two possibilities, as far as I can see. You tell me if I'm wrong.
1) Trump really does want Sessions out. If he said these things in the NYT interview, with NO heads up to Sessions, then clearly there MUST be some significant dissatisfaction with Sessions in The President's mind. This was no tweet. This was the President himself, in a substantive interview, hammering his AG at length!
2) The President gave Sessions a heads up on what he was going to say, and it's all part of some ploy by both of them.
Would you agree that if Sessions didn't know this was coming, that it means there's a problem? How could it be construed otherwise? I haven't seen where the "cheese in the maze" idea is employed during serious interviews.
Of course, it was the Failing New York Times...
I'd like to hear some alternate analysis from you, given that these comments by the President weren't merely part of some disposable tweetstorm. Does that not give you any pause at all?
My personal opinion at the moment is that the President wants Sessions to resign, but will not fire him due to loyalty. This is presuming that Sessions was blindsided by the President's comments...
Sessions is in on the whole 3-act play.
“Despite Session’s best efforts, amnesty passed in the Senate With Ease”
Yep. Amnesty was a done deal. Boehner was pretty sure he had the votes in the house, and counted heads a couple of times before the final vote. Brat ran specifically against Amnesty and won. That alone killed it.
You would think that would be more "presidential", right? BUT, no not in this crazy a$$ world we live in today where up is down and white is black.
You are absolutely correct that it is only by God’s will that anyone is elevated to a position of authority, but not everyone elevated by Him has been His “anointed”. I also agree that Trump is a “forceful brilliant strategist and alpha male”.
Throughout history God has used some very unexpected and unlikely men and women to execute His will.
When Donald Trump was elected as the 45th president of the United States it was my sincere hope that he would be in that company. It still is. However, since assuming office, some of his words and actions cause me to begin to increasingly wonder whether he will ultimately be a blessing or a judgment for this nation. For his sake and ours, I pray it will be the former.
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