[rlmorel]

Sigh. I know...I can relate to them. I understand why they feel as they do, so much so I don’t even get irritated by the posts, because I understand.

I admit to getting a good laugh out of the “If Jeff Sessions were alive, this would never have happened” meme...though now it just makes me tired of all this because I can’t even laugh at it.

We all know Sessions made a huge mistake in recusing himself, which tied his hands in so many ways it is damaging in so many ways.

I still don’t think Sessions is bad, or part of the swamp. He made a mistake. I think Trump does still find some value in him, even if he is extremely frustrated...otherwise, he might well have fired him by now.

[Alberta's Child]

Odd as it may sound, it may have been a guest on MSNBC (of all places) who first raised the key point about Sessions' recusal.

The guy pointed out that he thinks Trump is going to be completely vindicated in all this ... and by recusing himself, Sessions effectively shields Trump from any accusations that the whole investigation was just a political whitewash.

[Always A Marine]

We all know Sessions made a huge mistake in recusing himself, which tied his hands in so many ways it is damaging in so many ways.

So it appears on the surface -- but I would argue that the Sessions recusal was calculated precisely to look like a mistake. Feigning weakness has allowed new Trump/Sessions appointees to conduct their criminal investigations in secret while nearly everyone was bedazzled by Mueller's phony special counsel and Trump's invented frustration with his attorney general -- whom he never actually got around to firing. President Trump is a master strategist whose enemies mistook for a fool. It looks like the show is about to begin...