Sen. Lindsey Graham: If Trump Fires Sessions, “There Will be Holy Hell to Pay”

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!

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.”

He is not, nor will he, go after the crimes of the power elite, including Podesta, Hillary, Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Rice, Comey, or anyone else.

How do you know that? The DOJ and FBI are not supposed to discuss ongoing investigatexistions or even acknowledge that they exist.

He is hiding behind a mask of "integrity", when the real reason for his inaction is he is afraid to take on the behemoth.

You haven't a clue as to who Jeff Sessions is. He certainly took on the GOPe while in the Senate. It was Sessions who took up the issues of immigration and trade. It is not a coincidence that Steven Miller, a key member of Sessions senate staff, moved early on over to the Trump campaign and that he wrote the Trump campaign position papers on immigration and trade.

Sessions wrote in March 2014 a brilliant article, Becoming the Party of Work--How the GOP can help struggling Americans, and itself. that should be required reading for any Rep running for elective office. If you read it, you will see how this became the template for Trump's victory. It is why Sessions was the first and for a long time the only senator to endorse Trump. That took courage. Here is an excerpt:

When Americans went to the polls in 2012, the following was true: Work-force participation had sunk to its lowest level in 35 years, wages had fallen below 1999 levels, and 47 million Americans were on food stamps. Yet Mitt Romney, the challenger to the incumbent president, lost lower- and middle-income voters by an astonishing margin. Among voters earning $30,000 to $50,000, he trailed by 15 points, and among voters earning under $30,000 he trailed by 28 points.

And what did the GOP’s brilliant consultant class conclude from this resounding defeat? They declared that the GOP must embrace amnesty. The Republican National Committee dutifully issued a report calling for a “comprehensive immigration reform” that would inevitably increase the flow of low-skilled immigration, reducing the wages and living standards of the very voters whose trust the GOP had lost.

Over the past four decades, as factories were shuttered and blue-collar jobs were outsourced or automated, net immigration quadrupled. Yet the corporate-consultant class has pronounced that an insufficient level of immigration is the problem. A more colossal misreading of the political moment has rarely occurred.

Perhaps the most important political development now unfolding in the U.S. is the public’s growing loss of faith in our political and financial elites of both parties. To open the ears of disaffected voters, the GOP must break publicly from the elite immigration consensus of Wall Street and Davos. Republicans have a clear path to building a conservative majority if they free themselves from the corporate consultants and demonstrate to the American public that the GOP is the only party aligned with the core interests, concerns, and beliefs of everyday hardworking citizens.

Jeff Sessions is a fighter, not a coward. He remains Trump's best cabinet pick. My only fear is that Trump may be working on a compromise immigration deal with the Dems and GOPe in order to push his other agenda items thru. Sessions would be a stumbling block on any such compromise. He will insist on enforcing the law.

Not only is there zero evidence, testimony, or evidence that Jeff Sessions is doing anything about the real crimes, he himself has put the kabash on it. In the media and in his own testimony to Congress. Obama, Hillary, and the Deep State are safe, for now. The President knows this, and actually tweeted out his frustration that there are no investigations, and asking Jeff Sessions why he wasn’t acting? There is no secret cabal of lawyers at the Justice Department who are actually pursuing anything having to do with Obama, the Clinton Crime Foundation, the illegal surveillance of Trump and his family, Fusion GPS, the Pakistan IT specialist spy ring who worked for the DNC, Podesta’s sprit cooking pedophile ring, or any of this.

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