Posted on 08/08/2018 10:35:40 PM PDT by ransomnote
On that point, one either finds his recusal well taken, or not. That is a question of first principle.
Trump had an army aligned against him, and this army had as its main weapon, the well-propagated myth of "Russian collusion" and similar. There is no way this army, which includes all of the prime media and powerful forces in CIA, FBI, DOJ, State, etc., was going to stand down.
Circumstances, maybe orchestrated by Trump or his planners, directed their advance to run primarily through through the Mueller canyon. I think in hindsight, we will see allowing (maybe choosing) a Special Counsel was not unwise. There was going to be pain (to Trump) no matter what.
If Sessions was unprincipled, and cut Mueller off, who knows where this army deploys - it might even vanish back into the shadows, to do damage in less predictable ways. Plus, by acting in an unprincipled way, Sessions damages himself as well as the institution he is head of.
I personally don't believe the DOJ, FBI, Courts and other institutions are principled. I see them as failed. But correcting that happens one of two ways. Burn them down and rout the inhabitants, or the institutions see the light and correct. Sessions is doing as much as he can, I truly believe, to follow that second path.
I am a Trump supporter for several reasons. One of them is ..he is a fighter. The GOP has not learned how to do that and I am tired of them letting the dems have their way. We have a few in the GOP who are helping Trump.. the rest are still AWOL.
I just see sessions as one who won’t fight.. he has let Trump take all the attacks with not even a comment. mueller is way past what the constitution and our laws allow.. and he is still going. Our country looks like we are in trouble.. while Trump is trying to raise our position back to greatness.
The back up Trump needs has been absent.. his own party won’t support him.. and while the dems are nothing but trouble.. they vote together and speak the same rhetoric..
I want the GOP to condemn the media, to back Trump. No matter what anyone thinks of him personally.. he is doing what he said he would do.. he is making progress like no other President, in just a year and half. Where is the back up of the Republican party!! Where is sessions in any support of this man we call President of the United States!
Speaking of Sessions, the link below is to a PJ MEdia article about Sessions’ statement today re the Southern Poverty Law Center that I found interesting. I don’t know much about Sessions’ but he speaks here of his past work and rejects the SPLC’s current targeting of those they deem “hate groups,” even though he once worked with the SPLC years ago.
A side note in that article says that Amazon uses SPLC’s list of Hate Groups to decide to which charities their customers are invited to donate money (’Smile’ donation program). I’ve heard others complaining of being ostracized just for SPLC’s choosing to list them as a hate group minus any proof. I’ve always heard accounts like these in piecemeal form but finally see that collectively this strategy must have a large collective impact - one more way the left is shutting down visibility and access to funds of those with whom they disagree.
“I just see sessions as one who won’t fight.. he has let Trump take all the attacks with not even a comment.”
I see Sessions as “Timid”.
Jack is not a pyscho or soulless monster, he's a man with a family who couldn't turn down what was probably a double-edged proposition. Lots of money and favorable connections for the future versus...I dunno, maybe losing his job, maybe something worse.
In any case he's ineffective, and I feel sorry for him.
I haven't noticed this link to Notable Resignations recently so I'm reposting it.
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*I see Sessions as “Timid”.*
A kind and soft way of describing what sessions has done. I call it not backing our President.. letting him take it all and the highest law enforcement allowing the criminals who are after our President, to do their dirty work... uninhibited. The one peson who could do something.. and congress that will not do anything.. let our President..the man we voted into that office.. handle it all himself.. his family... his young son.. they just let them hang out there.
Trump is stronger than most.. he is still standing! No thanks to the AG or most of congress.
And my point was that Sessions recusal from matters that pertain to the Trump campaign is a question of first principles. One either finds the recusal well-taken, or not.
It's a litmus test for me, for what that is worth.
Trump is fearless. One of the strongest evidences of Q, in a practical Way, is the fact that Sessions is still there. Optics say fire him. Facts say trust Trump and therefore trust Sessions.
Q’s explanation of Session’s “inactivity” makes sense.
WW G1WGA
Sessions warning. He is good at playing POKER. ! Trust the plan. He holds the cards.
Giuliani’s comments on (useful tool) Hannity’s show tonight...
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I saw this last night. The report by John Solomon and Sara Carter about Steele trying to connect with the Mueller investigation through Bruce Ohr was stunning...and apparently there is much more still to learn....
Thank you for your post.
Fruit is good with me. ;)
170 voters over 116? They’ve discovered the fountain of youth in that district!
More to the point, is there any way to tell if any of them “voted?”
:)
mark
Does Trump look or act like someone who has been “put through a wringer”? Not even a little bit. He seems particularly undaunted to me.
Does our country seem like it has been “hung out to dry”? Not in the slightest. Our country is doing better under Trump (and Sessions) than it has in a long time. Everything is changing for the better, and not slowly either.
The “Mueller thing” has not hurt Trump or the country one iota. The deep state may have wanted it to, but they haven’t landed a single blow. If anything, being the innocent victim of a blatant political witch hunt has given the President ‘street creds’ he never could have earned otherwise.
Any POTUS who has vowed to “drain the swamp” must be beyond reproach - what better way to demonstrate that than submitting to an unprecedented level of adverse scrutiny and coming up squeaky clean? This witch hunt is political gold, which is why Trump has never lifted a pinky finger to stop it.
As for the AG, if the Trump agenda is alive and well, where exactly is all this damage Jeff Sessions is supposed to have inflicted?
So how come an army of investigators doesn't descend on that distict
At least someone is cashing social security checks
at worst they voted.
Like the Greek island of Zakynthos...where a larger then usual percentage of the population was listed as blind...until gobmint inspectors found the doctor giving out fake certificates.
Then in Reading CA....which had the highest rate of open heart surgery in the country...again...a doctor faking the books.
In your post #57, you outline a DU poster’s plan to make Hillary POTUS by putting her as House Speaker, and then simultaneously impeaching Trump and Pence. Of course, this dreamer-poster neglects the detail of having Hillary run for Congress first, in order to be Speaker.
This is silly, of course, but its also interesting. These are the frantic ravings of a person who has no idea how our government, or indeed, anything else works. It’s a wish-fulfillment fantasy. And, for such a person, Socialism’s promises of unicorn skittles seem realizable, if only...
Useful idiots like this appear to be surprisingly common.
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