Posted on 07/25/2017 7:33:44 PM PDT by Bratch
When President Trump made his initial remarks reflecting disappointment in Attorney General Jeff Sessions it was initially unnerving. The subsequent fallout from the public criticism has united the NeverTrump crowd, Cruzbots and professionally GOPe, to defend the honor of the much beloved former Senator. The opportunity to bash Trump is simply an ancillary benefit.
Conversely, the MAGA community has largely portrayed the rift as if the Presidential critique was part of a larger strategy between the President and Attorney General. If we wait long enough some mysterious master plan will eventually to be discovered.
However, the subsequent POTUS tweets and comments do not indicate any joint strategy at all. What they do actually show is a genuine disappointment and frustration with the focus of Jeff Sessions; and the cabinet member’s apparent unwillingness to confront the corruption within the DOJ and by extension the larger DC swamp.
It is not accidental the frustration and disappointment surface as the various opposition groups to the Trump presidency begin to target the entire Trump family. Despite some opinion to the contrary, Donald Trump does have a nuclear trigger point; target his family and you’ll find it quick. Just ask anyone who has known him for any substantive amount of time.
President Trump affirms his ‘confidence’ in Jeff Sessions’ ability to do the swamp draining and simultaneously expresses ‘disappointment’ that AG Sessions chooses not to. Confidence and disappointment are not mutually exclusive sentiments.
Under the former administration the Department of Justice was weaponized politically and legally by the executive branch against ordinary American citizens. A political example is the joint efforts between the DOJ and IRS to target political opposition, the Tea Party and organizations like True the Vote.
The legal examples of DOJ weaponization extend from “Fast and Furious” gun running ops to the targeting of the manufacturer of Gibson Guitar, and to legal cases involving local police departments like Ferguson Missouri, Baltimore Maryland and individuals like George Zimmerman. These are only a few examples; there are many more.
Attorneys’ General Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder did not participate in these examples alone. Under their guidance there exists a myriad of corrupt officials, black hats within the DOJ, who participated in all aspects of the weaponization.
This underlying corrupt architecture is what Jeff Sessions is choosing to ignore. This is the source of Trump’s frustration and disappointment. These deep state black hats within the DOJ are transparently not being confronted; meanwhile AG Sessions is running around the country with Rod Rosenstein holding pressers and proclaiming victories.
Yes, it’s great to finally have a law enforcement agenda with border policy, drug enforcement, and the capture of criminal enterprises with pedophile rings and human trafficking. Yes, all of that is great. However, there’s a larger issue at DOJ central where the refusal to confront the corrupt aspects within the organization only serves to fuel and enable the continuance of a corrupt swamp in Washington DC.
The corrupt institutional system that AG Sessions is apparently refusing to confront, are now targeting the personal family of the presidency. What usefulness is there in winning the small stuff if Sessions is refusing to confront the larger and more dangerous systemic corruption.
President Trump is an existential threat to the entire apparatus of the DC swamp. And so far AG Sessions appears content to ignore, or at best is prioritizing confrontation with the swamp at a much lower level of importance.
The commentary by President Trump should be considered against the totality of this backdrop. Winter is here; the time for confrontation is now. Mild mannerisms are not a valuable skill-set when engaged in epic confrontation. President Trump was not elected to nibble around the edges nor does his possess such a tempered disposition toward half-measures leaving the effort to someone else.
As a consequence, President Trump won’t let up on the pressure being applied to Jeff Sessions until the Attorney General agrees to clean his own house (and neighborhood) before journeying off to distant needs and righteous law enforcement endeavors. The most important battle is in Washington DC. So long as Sessions ignores this issue the pressure will remain.
Eventually, if the historic track repeats, Jeff Sessions will tender his resignation and an important heart-to-heart meeting of purpose will follow.
Whether that resignation is accepted or not will be entirely dependent on the disposition and willingness of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to confront the corrupt enterprise that has encircled Washington DC and metastasized its bile.
The Attorney General might not actually possess the skills, the instincts, to lead that disinfecting endeavor; or he might not desire to participate in an epic battle of such a politically adversarial nature.
Winter is here.
The choice will ultimately be his.
He is going after sanctuary cities, but I think a California judge has blocked some part of it out there.
Sessions did what he should have done from an ethical, conflict of interest point of view. If Trump and Preibus and the WH counsel wanted to be certain he did not recuse, they should have gotten together and hashed out the issues and come to a team conclusion. Not all Sessions' fault.
I'm also in Alabama and hated to see him leave the senate.
And he still does not have an FBI director who would be cooperative. He probably can't do much on some of these other investigations until he can work with a new FBI director.
And we could have a different AG and see immigration enforcement recede seriously. We might get a replacement picked by Jared and Ivanka. Rudy is no hawk on immigration if he should be interested in being AG.
And with the way Sessions is being treated, who would be interested in being the AG? That will affect people who might consider one of the many unfilled positions in the executive.
And with the way Sessions is being treated, who would be interested in being the AG?
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Someone with balls?
Maybe you should use your real name.
I haven't bailed on him and have probably supported him longer than most Freepers. I just realize that his trashing and humiliation of Jeff Sessions is pointless and such behavior will lose him some support, and more support if he persists in this sort of thing.
And take you childish name calling and shove it.
Yep, same old tiresome reality when it comes to a portion of conservative voters. The sun rises in the east.
Very well said CTG, every bit of it.
Oh me. That was not the highlight of the Cruz campaign as I recall.
Trump is still using management by exception. He doesn’t micro manage. He trusts people to do their job until they don’t.
Can you give us a list of balled and eager candidates?
Sugar Ray Robinson would have been proud of that little one-two combo!
One of my top 10 favorite!
What Sessions has to do is to do what President Trump ask of him ... get the investigation of clinton going... the FBI arrested one man today ... connected to the dems and all they tried to do to win... why isn’t Sessions on this and more... just go after the guilty.. go where the crimes are evident... and give Trump a deserved break from the attacks.
As for not wanting to go after the clintons... why in the name of anything dear... would you not want to go after the clintons??? They have been criminals for a long time and made themselves millionaires.. from Arkansas where they had nothing.. to Washington where they made themselves rich off the backs of the people and used the United States as their calling card... selling influence and favors.. plus our uranium and anything else they could find.. destroying gov property emails, lying about all of it... letting men be murdered in benghazi and lying about that too.
The only channel I can stomach is Fox and some days I can’t even do that one... tonight they are still talking about rusha rusha rusha.... it’s about time they changed that witch hunt to the dems.. it looks like the russians did not do the hacking of the dems... it is said to be an insider (Rich ring a bell?)... and it looks like hillary, lynch and comey .. along with brennan and others, are the ones Sessions should investigate asap and let the public know the media has been loading them with lies... also the ones Fox had better shift their line of reporting over to.. and leave Trump alone for once! Bret makes me angry just to look at him... since he’s been in the top seat, he shows his colors and it’s anti Trump no matter what goes on that is positive. He says on twitter that he’s fair and balanced.. he believes his own stories.. he left fair and balanced a long time ago!!
On this boy scout thing... it’s more ridiculousness that the media can’t pass up... WE are trying to save this republic and they want to tear down and destroy so they can enjoy their carnage!!
I think the administration needs to implement management by coordination and communication. There are many stories of departments straying from the issues that won the election for Trump.
Maybe more cabinet meetings, or a new chief of staff. Something to pull things together when critical decisions need to made, such as whether Sessions should have recused. That was a legal, ethical and political consideration.
LOL!!! Good thing I was between gulps of my adult beverage or I might have splashed another keyboard to a Black Velvet liquid grave!
I’m one of Trump’s loyalists.. and I want to fight the left and the media .. I don’t want to see evil win!! Trump is not a quitter.. he is a fighter.. that’s what I saw in him first thing and the reason he had me for a vote!
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