Look at it this way. If Sessions is in the lead, the press and the Dems won’t trust him. He’d be viewed as Trump’s man completely. But by recusing himself, and drawing disparaging remarks from Trump in doing so, he’s put some separation between the DOJ and Trump. But that separation might be fictional, and by design.
And then Rosenstein appoints Mueller and Mueller intentionally hires leftist lawyers, so now the press and the Dems figure, hey, Sessions is out of the way plus he’s at odds with Trump, and Rosenstein looks like a good guy and Mueller definitely looks like he’s after Trump, etc.
No one will doubt that Trump is clean if Mueller announces he can’t find anything, and when he starts tying Russian interference directly to the Clinton campaign, they’ll be boxed in completely, both the Dems and the liberal press.
Then, and only then, Sessions can start issuing indictments, of which there should be many.
And then there’s the IG report still to come.
I’ll probably be disappointed, but that’s how I hope it plays out in the end.
I'm not sure about Mueller, but I've been saying for some time that our cagey (art of the deal) President and Sessions are playing "rope a dope".
No indictments should be handed down before late Spring early
Summer. Timing is the Art of Champions and all this should be designed to hamper the Democrats in the Mid-terms.