Posted on 07/28/2017 12:28:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made it clear on Thursday what would happen if President Donald Trump fires his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. “If Jeff Sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay,” he told CNN. Graham also said he is looking to introduce legislation next week that would block the firing of special counsels without a judicial review.
Rumors have been swirling around Capitol Hill this week that Trump is looking to dispose of Sessions and Robert Mueller, the special counsel appointed to investigate Russia’s election interference, and any potential links between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign.
“This effort to basically marginalize and humiliate the attorney general is not going over well in the Senate,” Graham told CNN. “If you believe Jeff Sessions should be fired, use the power you have and accept the consequences.”
On Monday, Trump fired off a tweet calling Sessions “beleaguered,” asking why he has not looked into “Crooked Hillarys [sic] crimes & Russia relations.” Trump is reportedly upset that Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation, which left an opening filled by Mueller, a widely respected prosecutor who Trump is also unhappy with.
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
Sessions was one of Trump’s earliest advocates, and the first senator to embrace his candidacy. The attorney general has also faithfully pursued Trump’s campaign vision–perhaps more than any other cabinet appointee–adopting a hard-line immigration stance and a law and order philosophy on crime.
Republican senators rushed to Sessions’ defense following Trump’s Twitter barrage. They were joined by some Democrats, like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who warned that firing Sessions could provoke a “constitutional crisis.” Others said it would further prove that Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice in the investigations involving Russia and his campaign.
Sessions had been largely mum on the topic of his potential firing until Thursday afternoon. In an interview with Fox, he called Trump’s attacks “hurtful,” but said that Trump “is determined to move this country in the direction he believes it needs to go to make us great again.” He added that Trump “wants all of us to do our jobs and that’s what I intend to do.”
Graham’s legislation would essentially make it more difficult for Trump, and future presidents, to fire a special counsel, which includes Mueller. Dismissing a special counsel would require a judicial review to determine if reasons behind the firing “meet the statutory definitions,” Graham said.
The effort is likely to be a bi-partisan endeavor. Graham’s Democratic colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have said they are working on the bill. Blumenthal said it “might be a committee effort,” adding that firing Mueller “would precipitate a firestorm that would be unprecedented in proportions.”
You gonna slap him with your fan?
Bring it on Lindsey. Get together with your Democrat friends and do as much damage to the country as you can.
Bring it fag....
Linda’s got her pretty panties in a bunch, huh?
Linda Grahamnesty gonna hit him with her purse? Stomp her little foot? Stinking fag.
He’s the worst kind of scum.
Donald Trump Breaks Lindsey Graham Like a Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3PQOP6eax8&t=8s
You'd think we all discussed and agreed on what to post! LMAO!
the [president has a right to do that.
Senator Lindsey Graham (D-SC)
Seemingly everybody in washington is already openly hostile to him and already do anything possible to sabotage anything he wants to achieve. How is it going to get worse than it is now? I say he should go full on scorched earth, and then salt it for good measure. Let the chips fall where they may.
Dear Linda, These people serve at the pleasure of the President and it isn’t the job of congress to say whether the President can or cannot fire any of his employees.
On a separate note, if you want to go there, I see no reason why a President has to put his nominees through a review process that does not exist in the Constitution. It is a courtesy that the Senate apparently cannot handle.
Rumor Haley is in consideration for replacing tillerson.
I dont think he lasts long. Not the type to take crap from kushner for long
Sessions knows he has lost the confidence of the President and the vast majority of his base, yet he will not resign. Yeah, tell me again how he is an “Honorable Man”.
Sounds like a challenge to me. The President is going to have to show Congress who is boss soon, or they will continue to ignore him and marginalize him.
(My Lord, what a total jerk Lindsay is!!!!)POS like mcShame
Oh my! How dare the President dismiss someone who serves at his pleasure!
I wish Linda would just resign ho home and get back in the closet
Gee maybe he means they won’t repeal Obamacare?
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