[Salvavida]

It's a recusal. Ethics. As in not wanting ti give the appearance of wrong-doing. All DJT had to do is be above the fray, let it play out until his FBI director is in place, and let the senate confirm judges. Then go on the attack.

This is a strategic unforced error.

[Fantasywriter]

No, it’s a monumental decision with implications across the board. Sessions could make that decision on his own, but he owed his boss the minimal courtesy of an advance notice.

We never believed Obama when he said the first he heard of something was on the news. The first Trump hears of something this major *shouldn’t* be on the news.