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Sessions is following Trump on this

If Trump wanted it done he could demand it and if refused fire him. And replace

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NONSENSE.
Trump CANNOT order the AG to prosecute - and the Senate has already said that they’re not going to vote on anyone to replace Sessions, so the only thing that firing him would do is to put some OTHER useless RAT / GOP-e stooge in in his place.

The replacement is Rosenstein who has already stepped aside to let Mueller call the shots.

You have to agree this was a masterstroke by the incumbent establishment to keep control of the prosecution and to maintain a threat of Trump impeachment by holding obstruction of justice over his head.

Trump was said to have gone ballistic months ago when it dawned on him that his own prosecutors were under control of his enemies because Sessions had recused himself. Trump was confirmed to have said in the press that had he known Sessions would recuse himself, he would never had offered him the job.

In my view, Sessions has destroyed the image of respectability and integrity that so many here on FR and among conservatives nationwide had of him. If he had integrity, he should never have accepted the job and burdened our President with such baggage that caused him to recuse himself. He must have done it deliberately or stupidly. Either way, he’s not fit for the office and he has done great damage.

Exactly.

Trump is copying from Eisenhower. Ike let his cabinet take the heat as if they were setting policy. The press had convinced themselves that Ike wasn’t all that bright and that his appointees were running the show... sound familiar?

Fred Greenstein’s fascinating “The Hidden-Hand Presidency” describes how Eisenhower played the press for fools. They were little different then than they are today, they were arrogant and Ike took advantage of it. He encouraged their conceit that he was old and out of touch and mostly played golf, while behind the scenes he was as much in control as he had been as Supreme Allied Commander of the war in Europe.

I’ve thought since the primaries that Trump has been implementing the very same strategy that Greenstein describes Ike as using. His opponents fall for his calculated public image and he uses that to his great advantage.