Donald Trump’s week has started badly. Trump’s precious son-in-law is in the crosshairs of the Russia investigation. Paul Manafort is about to turn, I can feel it. Trump’s speech in front of the Boy Scouts was a mess. And Trump is trying to bully his own attorney general into quitting. In the past week, Trump’s new tactic is “publicly shaming Jeff Sessions” and talking sh-t about Sessions whenever and wherever possible. Let’s just take a moment and say this out loud: Donald Trump is too much of a coward to fire his own attorney general.
While everyone agrees that Jeff Sessions needs to go, we all have different reasons for it. I want Jeff Sessions to go because he is the most treasonous elf in all the land, and because he’s a racist, sexist douchebag. Trump wants him to go because Sessions isn’t interfering in the Russian investigation.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017
Trump’s also attacking the acting head of the FBI, because of course.
Problem is that the acting head of the FBI & the person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from H for wife!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017
You know who else has ties to Hillary Clinton? Anthony Scaramucci, who donated thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton’s campaigns and Barack Obama’s campaigns. I’m just sayin’.
Anyway, when will Jeff Sessions resign? This week? I say it will be this week. And after that, Trump will try to fire Robert Mueller.
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Unfortunately, if he is canned, someone worse will just take his place. History’s ugliest, most poison hydra.
Agreed. Even though the KKKeebler elf is horrible, whoever replaces him will be worse. The fact that the Cheeto Mussolini is openly trying to intimidate the FBI is in itself disturbing.
I just read this morning that maybe Ted Cruz would take his place. Barf.
I’m at the point where I’m nervous to ask “How can this circus get any worse?”….because we all know it’s going to get much, much worse.
Rumor is it will be Giuliani. And if you know anything about what NYC went though under him you should be worried.
I thought Giuliani basically came out yesterday and said no thanks. Mostly because he’d never make it past confirmation, and because he might be smart enough to see that getting into this mess would destroy whatever is left of him.
Nope Giuliani went on tv last night and said no and sessions did the right thing to recuse himself. If looks like the GOP is finally slowly peeling away from this nut.
Doubt the Senate would approve Rudy but Rudy is slime. this is the same dude that rallied the NY FBI office to send out that fake Hillary email story and forced Comey to come out and say something about it. He would say anything to get the job, including lying. He wanted it before Sessions was hired, its why he was clinging to trump for the AG job. He is a liar, don’t trust what comes out of his mouth. He is jsut as bad as Trump.
The only reason someone as openly racists as Sessions got confirmed is because he was a sitting senator at the time. Trump’s racist vision for America hinges on Session at Justice. Forcing him out would definitely slow the roll on immigration, voter suppression, incarceration, etc. so I’m rooting for a resignation ASAP.
@Megan
I agree that Sessions is the MOST dangerous of all Trumps appointees He is in the position to do the most damage and clearly has an agenda to bring America back to the good ole days of the confederacy
Last night on Rachel Maddow, she said that if Trump hires a new AG while the senate is in recess that person doesn’t have to be confirmed! I’m hoping I misunderstood that, because if it is true, and he is just waiting for them to leave for their summer recess to fire (Sessions) and hire (??) we are screwed!!
Trump didn’t care about the racism. He wanted someone who would protect him against any investigations. Sessions can’t do that, so now Trump is screaming about how unfair it all is to him personally. He doesn’t know or care about any other responsibilities of the Attorney General. It’s always all about him.
Attacking Sessions is another unforced error by Trump. The more he tweets, the guiltier he looks.
Well I guess Congress can’t go on recess or they can reconvene. Frankly I hope Sesdions sticks it to him and make him fire him.
He’s horrible but he’s the only one who can stop Orangino from firing Mueller
@Louisa Trump can make a recess appointment. The person appointed either needs to be confirmed by the end of the Congressional sessions, in this case December 2018, or the sear reopens.
@Holly hobby,
I agree. I hope Sessions is the most tenacious crotch crab to the tRump administration that ever was.
Yes, we’re better off with the elf right now because he has already recused himself on the Russia and campaign investigations. Trump wants an AG who will squash the investigation. That’s why he was spitting nails when Sessions recused himself, as he really needed to do if only because he was too close to the campaign and Trump. But President Tweeter doesn’t understand that, he just wants the investigation to go away and he thought Sessions would protect him. No understanding that the AG has other duties. We’ll run into the same problem with Trump’s preference for FBI director – Trump picks according to who will get rid of Mueller for him. This is just adds to the pile of evidence that Trump is guilty as sin.
Trump also thinks there is a Tardis hidden away in the White House, since Sessions would have had to travel forward in time to know that he would have to recuse himself before taking the job.
Somehow I doubt FBI director Wray would break the law for him. He previously served under Bush and he knows what’s legal and what’s not. Even Giuliani, former US Attorney, agreed that Elf did the right thing in recusing.
If orangino thinks these people will do all his bidding he’s mistaken.
@ wool man : re the Tardis. I wondered about that too. When he was appointed, how did Sessions even know that the investigation would take place? Trump is so stupid and none of his minions ever call him on it. I hope Sessions holds on and makes Trump fire him.
The Keebler Elf will be gone by August 1.
I feel like Jeff Sessions burning desire to deny black people basic rights will keep him hanging on to the very end.
Sure, Sessions is being totally humiliated by the same person he supported for president, but if he doesn’t stay on as AG, who will stop black people from voting?!?
^ This. Someone wrote in a comments section somewhere (am forgetting where) that Sessions’ dream is to be a slave owner, and that being US AG is the closest thing he’s going to get to that.
YEP. THIS–times a 1000
I agree. Sessions loves the job and won’t go without a fight. Janet Reno persisted for all eight Clinton years.
I hope he dares orangino to fire him. Right now orangino wants him to resign but I hope the elf sticks it to him. Nothing like evilness canabalzing each other.
YEP. And ultimately this will be tRump’s undoing, because the investigation will keep chugging along, like the little engine that could.
Loosely related: Did anyone notice that mental health professionals are encouraging each other to seek up about mental health issues in public figures?https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/a-crack-in-psychoanalytic-standards-courtesy-of-the-president/534825/
I’m all for getting rid of racist Sessions (almost anyone would be better than that son of the Confederacy)except whoever takes his place won’t be recused from Russia.
You do realize Trump wants to get rid of him so he can pull a Saturday Massacre and get his new AG to fire Muller? Do you think Trump isn’t going to hire a noble, good guy, he will hire someone much much worse then Sessions. So slimey, awful he or she would be willing to fire Mueller and pull a Nioxonian move. At least Session isn’t being a complacent puppet for Trump.
Yes I do realize. OTOH Sessions being a diabolical racist and though not exactly bright more effective than most of the administration is doing so much damage to Civil Rights in so many ways right now. So I’m torn. I really am. We’d definitely get a Saturday Night Massacre if he’s gone but Sessions is the absolute worst.
Which is why you probably should not be all for getting rid of him. Let the states and the courts deal with their prejudice-based legislation, and let Mr. Mueller continue unimpeded by another Bork.
For all his talk about being such a powerful leader, he’s too much of a coward to fire someone. He has to make their life miserable until they quit. Snowflake in Chief.
Ha, it’s like someone who starts picking fights and acting passive aggressive to get someone to break up with them.
OhDear, that sounds about right. What I always wonder and worry about are the questions of Is there a plan on the part of the white House and where, if anywhere, does it lead?
That is exactly what he does. It’s pathetic.
@third ginger – I think they have an idea of what they want to do (read: destroy Obama’s legacy), but no plan to get there. Right now I think they’re (at least Trump is) preoccupied with negative poll numbers and the Russia investigation seemingly closing in, so that’s derailing the administration a bit.
Congress, on the other hand, seem to be using the focus on Russia to (try to?) get their agenda across/passed.
I’d make the bas@tard fire me. Sessions is awful but if I were him I’d be staying until I was fired.
The deplorables love KKKebbler Elf Sessions. Trump is making a stink about Hillary’s emails to test the waters to see if he can fire Sessions without any backlash from his base.
I worked for someone like that. He fired me because I refused to quit no matter badly he treated me (I needed the job). And he said “I’ve never had to fire anyone before”. And I thought yeah because most people just leave rather than deal with the crap. But he wanted to see himself as a “nice guy”, so he preferred to make people quit!
I despise Jeff Sessions with the fire of a thousand suns. However, I really wish you would stop calling him “elf”. Coming from a family with short, slightly built men, I’ve seen the sh*t that they take for being small. Insulting someone for a physical characteristic that they cannot change is bullying.
The Annoying Orange chooses his orangeness. Jeff Sessions chooses to behave like a racist, duplicitous, pandering weasel. I think there is plenty of fodder for insulting nicknames there.
I agree with you, and I am sorry the men in your life have to out up with people mocking them.
I don’t quite understand the need to use nicknames in the first place, I still find it confusing to read. Seems many use different names for the same people, so each post I have to sit and figure out who is who. Also, and this is strictly my opinion, I feel it detracts from the seriousness of this entire global crisis. I get that for some it is a release, or something? It’s so serious that it lightens the mood? Who knows?
Anyway, it’s just my thoughts.
I could be totally wrong, but I don’t think Kaiser is insulting Sessions stature by referring to him as an elf. I think it has to do with his face/ears that give him an “elfish” appearance. And to be fair, not all elves are small. Re: The Lord of the Rings. I’m not trying to be argumentative and I understand where you are coming from with your distaste for this term. Just offering my POV.
I don’t really think of his height, he’s within normal range to me. It’s his face that bears an uncanny resemblance to elves and leprechauns. On somebody else, that would be attractive….
Yeah except he literally looks like the Keebler Elf in the face. It has nothing to do with his height.
I won’t argue that Jeff’s face is quite Keebleresque, but he’s not a large guy. If he was built like a linebacker, no one would be calling him “elf”, regardless of his facial features. (She says with mortification that she is actually defending Jeff Sessions in any way, shape, or form….)
He looks like the Keebler Elf in the face, I think the nickname fits. I come from a family with tall guys and my husband is tall, so I can’t relate but I know a man cannot help being short. I just think racist Keebler elf is the perfect name for this toolbag.
I don’t like Sessions but if I was Sessions I would not resigned. I would force him to fire me. He does not want to fire him because he’s afraid of the backlash. 45 knows everything about Sessions before he nominated him to be AG. He knew Sessions was in touched with the Russians. I believe some of the reasons Sessions was in touch with Russia was for 45 benefit. Now 45 is mad with Sessions because he recused himself on the Russion investigation. Now Sessions can’t help 45 to fire 🔥 Mueller. This morning 45 is having a tweet storm like a man who is having a nervous breakdown, sad, ha ha.
I agree, Sessions won’t leave. he’s waited his entire life for this moment, and he won’t leave it just because trump is whining. Sessions doesn’t care about trump, he jumped aboard for his own gains and got what he wanted. He threw trump under the bus to save himself, and THAT trump cannot stand.
I predict he won’t resign and give up all his power. He’ll continue on instituting horrendous policies and ignore the big oaf he played.
I hope he fires Sessions, and in turn Sessions loses his shit and has a complete and utter meltdown where he reveals many skeletons. That is best case scenario.
Also, how fing insane is it that the bloody president is publicly undermining the position (and work) of the DoJ AND the FBI. Insanity. It will take generations to undo the seeds of mistrust this loonbag is sowing.
I think Session could very well play a role in Trump’s undoing. Unfortunately, many times bullies like Trump never get taken down by righteous, morally upstanding citizens; they get taken down by people just as vicious and morally corrupt (if not more so) as themselves. Sessions certainly fits the bill.
Amen, hope Beauregard sinks Trump.
Trump is certifiable. Like he is legit crazy. And his obsession with Clinton and Obama is deeply disturbing.
“You know who else has ties to Hillary Clinton? Anthony Scaramucci, who donated thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton’s campaigns and Barack Obama’s campaigns. I’m just sayin’.”
You know who else has ties to Hillary Clinton? Donald Trump, who donated thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton’s campaigns. I’m just sayin’.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/donald-trump-donations-democrats-hillary-clinton-119071
Yeah, they are really reaching on the donations thing. It’s well established that donating to a political campaign is ok for federal employees and does not constitute a conflict of interest. Some of the people on the team donated a couple of hundred dollars…
Trump can’t insist that they all vote Republican, either. That’s also funny because Trump and his kids were registered as Democrats, and as already mentioned Trump has made plenty of donations to Democrats. He boasted at a rally that he always donated to both sides so that when he needed a favor, they would “kiss his ass” (direct quote) and do what he wanted. He was probably a tad delusional on that score, but it certainly worked with the Florida Attorney General, who decided not to pursue complaints about Trump University soon after Trump donated $25,000 to her campaign. Which is 5-10 times more than any of the biggest donors on Mueller’s team donated to Democratic candidates (most donated 1/100 of that or nothing at all).
I heard Matt Owens, a BBC journalist this morning (yes we do get 24-hour BBC out here at least!), reporting from Moscow, who said he believed Congress was slowly mounting what he called a “soft coup” against Trump. I think it was a thoughtful comment, and he is right: even the GOP are realizing that they are up against something quite different in Trump, and if they want a chance in the mid-term elections, they are going to have to start figuring out how to throw Trump under the bus, at least legislatively.
I agree. Paul Ryan’s comments yesterday about how Mueller is a Republican appointed by a Republican made me think the worm is slowly turning.
Yes. As his approval ratings continue to tank, they cannot help but think of the aerodynamic drag he will have on their re-election campaigns.
TRUMP gave money to Clinton. IMPEACH !!!!!!!!!!!!
Please, read Mujanovic’s thread. It starts with the vile BSA Jamboree speech, but moves quickly into the bigger story. We can’t pin all our hopes on Mueller. History is littered with failed democracies; we can’t make the mistake of thinking we are too special to be one of them. We have to play an even longer game than the lawmakers who have completely abdicated any moral responsibility to the citizens of this country, or are too afraid to make themselves a target by standing against those who have. As Kaiser has said, it’s going to get worse before it gets better; it will take some serious stamina to survive a GOP that is willing to sacrifice large segments of this country and its future in service of grasping at their small-minded sense of personal power, and ramming through as much reactionary legislation as they can before they try to pretend they never really liked the petty tyrant.
Oh, and Sessions’ beliefs and actions are indeed repulsive, but good lord, he likely knows way too much to be pushed out easily; why on earth would he give up that kind of leverage? Like others here, I shudder to think who might replace him . . .
Sessions is obviously knee-deep in the Russia crap. He’s lied and perjured himself about it, he MUST have some awareness of what *others* have been up to as well. I wonder about behind the scenes conversations between ole Jeff and 45’s henchmen, probably going along the lines of “hey, you know that I know what you know”. Seems risky on 45’s part to make an enemy of someone who could ruin his life. I think 45 might be trying to get the public to turn on Sessions as his out, “Jeff, I had to you know, not my choice”. But he’s doing it so badly. I really believe the recent leak about the IC’s recording of the RU ambassador’s conversation re: Sessions was done by 45’s team as an attempt to oust Sessions through public outcry. I didn’t work so now he’s bumbling through this strategy.
Yes, my guess also is that Jeff knows where the bodies are buried. Trump is taking quite a chance. Sessions gave up a Senate seat to become AG. If Trump throws him under the bus, Sessions will respond in kind (after getting immunity….).
I would say so too.
Yeah Keebler isn’t a political novice. He’s been around much longer to know how this game is played. I hope he hangs in there and if he gets fired, I hope he turns and spills.
Word.
This is fantastic news. I hate this troll and all his policy.
For everyone getting excited about the possibility of Sessions leaving-anyone who is going to replace him will be a million times worse.
Did you see his appearance in Philly a few days ago? Sessions is hellbent on dismantling all the progress we’ve made in the legalization of marijuana and is hellbent on defunding sanctuary cities.
For the most part, MJ legalization is appealing to both parties and I don’t expect anyone replacing him would be as obsessed with the demonization of mild drugs like marijuana so yeah, I’m 100% in favor of getting rid of Sessions for that reason alone.
And you think Trump is going to appoint someone who is marijuana friendly?? Or pro-sanctuary cities?? Absolutely not. It’s going to be someone even worse and completely pro-Trump. From the frying pan to the fire: just watch.
Um yeah actually I do think he would appoint someone who goes easier on the MJ issue.
I’m not sure how familiar you are with marijuana legalization but there is NO ONE and I mean literally no one in government who has made it their personal mission to go after marijuana legalization as consistently as Sessions has.
The Republicans are there to represent their constituents and on an overwhelmingly bipartisan level, the majority of Americans are FOR legalization.
People seem to think that anti-marijuana is specific to the Right when it’s really just specific to Jeff Sessions and the Evangelical Community. Most Republican politicians aren’t out there pushing to repeal state laws that legalized MJ.
“A CBS poll out today shows that 61 percent of Americans favor full legalization, the highest number the poll has recorded, while a Quinnipiac poll puts the number at 60 percent, with an incredible 94 percent saying people ought to be able to get it if their doctors prescribe it (CBS put that figure at 88 percent). Perhaps more important, 71 percent in the CBS poll and 73 percent in the Quinnipiac poll said that the federal government should leave states that have legalized it alone.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/04/20/will-jeff-sessions-launch-a-war-on-weed-if-so-it-could-accelerate-marijuana-legalization/?utm_term=.3e42d6be6a8d
Sessions’ stance on drugs is about the only thing I like about him.
I agree that the replacement will be worse, but as an Alabamian who has witnessed Cornpone’s Reign of Terror for decades, it is somewhat satisfying to see the man who has had his lips firmly on trump’s ass since 2015, get what’s coming to him.
Oh yes-that I get. I will enjoy the downfall of Reince Priebus as well-and I am sure working in that WH is hell on earth-and they all deserve it. But there are worse people out there-anyone who would willingly join this sinking ship are going to be way worse than anyone who’s currently there.
I really don’t think you can get worse than Jeff Sessions TBH. I went to the town hall with AG Healy (here in Mass) and she had some very choice words to say about Sessions and her meetings with him. She basically said that he’s one of the craziest f*ckers she’s ever met: racist, intolerant and truly scared on cities to an almost paranoid level.
Recall that this is a guy who couldn’t become a Fed judge because of his racist past. http://fortune.com/2016/11/19/jeff-sessions-race-civil-rights/
I hate Giuliani with every fiber of my being but his record still isn’t as awful as Sessions is.
Kitten… I’m from Alabama…. Sessions is up there with the worst of them, for sure. So is Luther Strange, who was appointed to Sessions’ empty seat. Luther Strange was then AG for Alabama, and his office was investigating the then Governor for corruption. But Strange accepted the appointment anyways. (That Governor was charged with a crime a few months later, too, though Strange had urged his office to stop investigating, before his own appointment). Any politician coming out of Alabama is corrupt…
Our former head of the supreme court, Roy Moore, is now running for Sessions; empty seat, in the upcoming election. He is a POS. He was removed from the bench twice for going against the law. The first time was when he refused to remove Ten Commandments monuments from court houses… The second time when he directed every judge in the state to ignore the US Supreme Court’s ruling that Gay Marriage is legal. And to this day, over half the counties no longer have judges that perform courthouse ceremonies, because they don’t want to have to marry non-cis gendered, heterosexual people. And he very well may win. My State is f*cked, and we need help. The democratic party is so weak, here, too. The last democratic govenor for the state of Alabama just got out of jail recently, too… HELP US! I am surrounded by bullsh*t.
Worse in the sense that the replacement will jump at the chance to fire Mueller and carry out every other batshit desire of trump. AG Cornpone can’t touch Mueller because of that little Russian problem. So, that’s a plus.
To add to Reindeer’s post, if you want to revel in Republican hypocrisy gone amuck, just google Alabama’s Luv Guv. It involves a Bible thumping governor, a younger vixen, her pimpish husband, and a feisty first lady(you go, Dianne). I shouldn’t celebrate the destruction of a fifty year marriage, but the old fool did it himself, so enjoy away.
He’s sure been unhinged this morning. Attacking amazon too: “Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 11h
Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly?”
Wtf?!?!?
Trump got the idea from somewhere (Fox News? Infowars?) that there is an internet tax that Amazon isn’t paying. There is no internet tax.
He might be confusing it with the fact that Amazon did not COLLECT state sales tax for a long time, but they’ve been collecting it now for quite a while. The sales tax is not a tax on the business but rather on the customer. The business actually receives a commission for collecting it (1% in my state). I always kept track of amazon purchases and just paid the sales tax with my state income tax firm – there’s a spot on it for that. I used the mid-year convention and reported everything in a big lump as miscellaneous purchased on June 1. But I haven’t had to do that for Amazon in years.
Trump also mistakenly thinks Amazon owns the Washington Post. It doesn’t. The founder of Amazon purchased it, but it’s not owned by the company Amazon. I don’t think Trump listens very well to all the tv he watches, so he often gets things wrong.
He’s stupid and a couple of years too late on that one. Yes at I do point Amazon didn’t collect sales tax and that was a point of contention with govt. well I’ve been paying Amazon taxes for years now so yeah, they are paying.
Thanks for the explanation guys!! Can the company sue him for slander? I mean I guess they cannot while he’s president but afterwards? SO BIZZARE
Even one of the biggest assholes in the world, Rush Limbaugh is saying that it’s discomforting to see Trump attack Sessions who has always been loyal to the president
Speaking of assholes, the way limbaugh dodged the Vietnam draft was with anal polyps. So fitting.
I HATE Limbaugh. He is an anal polyp. I can’t believe the ignorant and cruel things I’ve heard he’s said
I am dying over here. I remember seeing a book by Limbaugh on my dad’s bookshelf in the 90s and thinking whhhy dad whhyy??
Like a commenter above, I think the GOP is starting to open its eyes about Trump (actually, they always knew what they had, but now they’re admitting it). I think the line they will try to sell is that Trump was never a true Republican, and point to all his donations to the Dems and hiring Scaramucci (who also was a Dem for a long time).
Maybe it is beginning to dawn on people that Trump only cares about Trump and to him loyalty is a one-way street. He will turn on anybody any time to protect himself and he is obsessed with protecting himself from this investigation. A possible exception might be Precious Ivanka, but I wouldn’t count on that. Trump seems like the type of cornered rat who might eat his young. Her husband Precious Jared is definitely disposable, but might not realize it yet.
Ivanka really should hightail it out of D.C. with the kids. They set the stage for that a while ago, saying that they were going to re-evaluate staying in DC in six months. They can use the excuse of school coming up, often that starts in August now. Precious Jared might need to stay in DC for his part in the mess, but Ivanka might slither out of her problems with the security clearance form and financial disclosures if she quits the White House now.
Trump should be really worried because contrary to his delusions, Mueller can follow any illegal trails he happens upon. Remember that Bill Clinton’s impeachment proceedings started with a dead-end investigation into a land deal and ended up with him charged with perjury for lying about an affair…. Bill was cleared by the Senate likely because it was all so stupid and had nothing to do with the rest of the country, but Donald is in a different situation.
And Trump has a lot of illegal trails to follow, with plenty of Russians all along the way. A recent article in the New Republic pulls together a lot of the Trump connections to money-laundering Russians who occupy an amazing amount of space in Trump properties. We know Russians financed his golf courses (Eric said so a few years ago) and that Russians have accounted for a large amount of money coming into Trump
Projects (Don Jr said so a few years ago). But Trump has many more connections with Russians either already convicted or under investigation for various financial crimes such as money laundering and the trail of Russia. Real estate purchases from Trump points to Trump making a tidy sum from helping with money laundering through his casinos and other properties.
TYT (The Young Turks) have a long piece on YouTube detailing the decades-long Trump/Russians connections summarized in the New Republic article (Maddow has been tracking this also for quite a while, so her YouTube offerings should be interesting):
https://youtu.be/yrJzf6eUSWA
Cheeto is going mad as Mueller gets closer to the truth about Russia. This is about more than swinging an election — Cheeto is owned by the Russian mafia.
Sessions will not resign — he gains much needed sympathy by being fired. And if Foghorn Leghorn has an ounce of decency in his drumsticks, he will try to hang on until the congress returns from their August break, denying Cheeto a recess appointment for the AG position. Should Sessions exit by any means during the recess, and Cheeto appoints a puppet for AG, I think it’s finally the tipping point with the Republicans. They’ve been very vocal today in their support of Sessions.
Considering how Trump been acting, Congress should take steps to prevent recess appointments. What has been done in the past has been making sure no adjournment lasts more than three days. I think just a few people need to show up to do that.
You’re right. But a three day adjournment is even too long.
I don’t have the same faith in the GOP; they’ve played the speak-out-nominally-against-Drumpf-but-hedge-and-don’t-act-game since the beginning; what about this makes it seem we should believe that this would be the thing that would tip the balance when far worse things haven’t given them pause at all? Or worse, privately made them question, but inspired no action? I’d like to say that I’d welcome any additional to the resistance, but the few Republicans in office with the ovaries to openly resist already are*, and anyone this late to the game has motives that are highly suspect.
*I don’t count the extreme right-wingers that oppose Baby Fists for being too liberal; they got elected by rabidly opposing the “status quo” or any substantive federal government influence, and as such, have a vested interest in maintaining a situation in which they can complain about whoever is president. They have no platform otherwise.
I don’t like Sessions at all, but I think he will stand firm and not be bullied into resigning. That’s just making it easy for Trump, what Trump wants. Trump firing him will be more chaos, and like someone above posted, gain Sessions more sympathy.
You know that the idea to “fire” Sessions(bullying him into resigning) is all of Jared’s idea. Whatever Mueller has on Jared, it must be very bad because after his attempt to end the Trump Russian investigation by advising The King of Lies and Fake News to fire Comey, he is back again for another round. This time his victim is Sessions. I don’t feel sorry for Sessions. You know that Sessions is going to resign, it’s not a matter of “if”, it’s a matter of when because Sessions is another puppet of The King of Lies and Fake News.
Wasn’t the investigation into Hillary closed? So Sessions and McCabe have no basis to go after Hillary like the The King of Lies an Fake News is suggesting.
The King of Lies an Fake News is attacking McCabe because his wife donated to Hillary, and he leaves out that McCabe attempted to help by leaking information about the dossier to Reince. The most disturbing thing is how McCabe, Sessions, and Rosenstein allow The King of Lies an Fake News to verbally attack them like this.
The King of Lies and Fake News is talking about leaks when Jared and Ivanka have been leaking things about Sessions and Flynn to WaPo. Every time he complains about leaks, someone should ask him about his relationship with Robert Costa from WaPo.
I think he will be fired after the vote today.
If Trump gets rid of Sessions, he will try to exert his influence over the person who takes Session’s place to fire Mueller. Don’t you see, that is his end game! That is the reason behind his most recent tirades against Session, it is a cover for his true purpose, which is to have Mueller fired. Don’t buy into the BS of what it obviously appears to be. So no, we don’t want Sessions to go.
That nasty little creature will hold on just long enough for the Orange Menace to replace him with a recess appointment who will not need Senate confirmation. Then he will get a full pardon (behind closed doors and not announced to the public). Once that is done, Mueller will be fired. The public spat is just that, a public spat so they can minimize the outrage.
The GOP is playing the long game. My husband calls me a “bitter cynic”, but deep down, he knows I’m right.
The most disturbing thing is how none of the GOP, or the Democrats for that matter, are fighting back when The King of Lies and Fake News, Scaramucci(O’Brien), Sarah, and Kellyanne spin that recusing oneself from an investigation due to conflicts of interest is a bad thing. Sessions had several meetings with the Russians and lied about it, so it was not appropriate for him to continue to participate in the Trump Russian investigation. When The King of Lies and Fake News, Scaramucci(O’Brien), Sarah, and Kellyanne say that Sessions was wrong for recusing himself, the press needs to tell them that they are wrong.
What the press are really missing is the fact that it’s Jared who is responsible for this aggressive attack on Sessions. It’s Jared egging The King of Fake News, Scaramucci, Sarah, and Kellyanne on to verbally attack Sessions and leaking stories to WaPo about Sessions. Jared wants Mueller gone just like he wanted Comey gone. Just like he thought that firing Comey was a good idea he thinks that firing Comey so that they can hire someone who can fire Rosenstein and Muller. How long are the GOP going to keep giving Jared a pass and allowing him to abuse his position?
The press just announced that the subpoena issued against Manafort was dropped. Does anyone in the GOP have a backbone?
I hope Sessions makes the President fire him. Trump needs to have the stones to to fire Sessions or sit down and start working on the people’s business.
Not to mention Sessions gave up a nice, cushy job as a Senator to take this position. No way he should leave because the President is afraid of the bodies that he has hidden in his closet.
Even the conservative press is against Trump firing Sessions.
Trump needs to realize he is running the US government and for good reason it has separate co-equal branches and independent agencies. It isn’t a private family business. If you think about that Trump as head of his business didn’t have to answer to shareholders or anyone really because he wasn’t a publicly traded company.