The Japanese call this stuff "Kabuki." I Sessions were truly ineffectual he would be long gone. He is doing what Trump wants him to do. To argue that Sessions is incompetent is to argue that Trump is incompetent and doesn't know what is going on in Washington. If that were true he would have been impeached or the regular deliberations toward his impeachment would have started in the House proposed and promoted by our friends in DC the Republican Party six months ago.
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