“Sessions notified White House counsel Don McGahn of this during a phone call last weekend, sources told the Washington Post.”
Let’s see... a phone call involving just Jeff Sessions and Don McGahn... and the WaPo knows what was said between the two of them. So... which one of those two was the leaker?
This has the Fake-News-O-Meter jumping.
A year ago Trump tweeted “the leaks are absolutely real, but the news is fake”- a statement that the MSM insisted made no sense.
But it did make sense. Trump knew that there were leaked stories that were totally fake because Team Trump had been the very ones inventing the fake stories and then leaking them. All done in order to screw with the press, to shape the daily soap opera and get the MSM chasing yet another pointless story. Newt Gingrich called it releasing the daily cage of rabbits. “It’s better for him to give them a rabbit than for the press to go find their own rabbit” or words to that effect.
“The senate won’t approve a better AG if he fires Rosenstein and Sessions quits”
Under the Vacancies Reform Act 1998 Trump could move one of his other, already approved by the Senate, Cabinet officers over to AG for at least 210 days, if not longer.
An intractable, obstructionist Senate versus Donald Trump. Bet I know who would win that public relations battle with elections coming up.
The effect of this story is to make Sessions looks horrible. Rosenstein is a pro-Hillary anti-Trump Deep State snake, and Sessions intimates he may not be willing to continue without him.
As Trump would say, bad.