Posted on 03/14/2018 7:13:31 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
President Donald Trump has been formulating a plan to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Vanity Fair reported on Wednesday. Sessions has been a target of Trump's ire since he recused himself from the FBI's Russia investigation last March, following reports that he was not forthcoming during his Senate confirmation hearing about his contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign season. Sessions' recusal is a key point of frustration for Trump, who once reportedly asked why he couldn't order "my guys" at the "Trump Justice Department" to do what"weak" and McCabe, whom Trump described as "a Comey friend who McCabe was forced out of the FBI earlier this year amid an internal investigation into his handling of the Clinton email probe. On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Sessions is weighing whether or not to fire McCabe over his alleged misconduct days before he's set to retire. Trump's tweets last summer came after he admitted, during an interview with The Times the previous week, that he would not have nominated Sessions to be attorney general if he had known Sessions would recuse himself from the Russia investigation. "Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job, and I would have picked somebody else," Trump told the outlet. Sessions said this weekend that he believes he made the right decision by stepping aside from the DOJ's Russia investigation. The special counsel Robert Mueller is believed to be focusing on the time period last summer when Trump ramped up his attempts to pressure Sessions to carry out his suggestions. That inquiry makes up one thread of Mueller's investigation into whether Trump sought to obstruct justice when he fired FBI director James Comey last May.
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utter crap
In response to your “b.” - Trump can do a recess appointment of anyone he likes. They can legally do the job for a year without senate confirmation, I believe.
Wiser FReepers, please correct me if I’m wrong.
Sessions has always seemed a real gentleman. Calm, centered on God and family as we all should be.
Just not sure he belongs where he is. I had hopes he would do more than collect a goberment check. I am tired of excuses. Any respectable prosecutor could have moved, tried and nailed the seditionists all around him.
A year to make a case when he has the unlimited resources of the DOJ? Yes many are swamp rats—that should not be difficult to flush out and execute by now. Where is his competency? He has to supposedly rely on an IG report that has no teeth? Can he do nothing?
Maybe he plays a mean banjo or harmonica and maybe the DOJ needs some entertainment because nothing much seems to get done in the business of justice.
True that.
"Business Insider" doesn't seem to know anything about business and it's from not from insiders. I'd love to see Sessions go but hasn't this story been repeated at least monthly for the last year? If Trump wanted him out I think he would have been out last year.
“We, and Trump, have been without an AG since the arrival of Sessions”.
Nothing has been done to stop Antifa. It is as if there is NO Attorney General.
The day after the President took oath? Sessions was a senator then.
Fine then. Perhaps Trump should just UNHIRE him.
He should fire him for being disloyal. Plenty of others will do his bidding.
Vanity Fairy is fake news
...I agree that is a good exclusively WI beer - too good for us to share with the other states. Though I favor Moon Man instead. Same WI brewer, New Glarus.
Regarding Diana's accurate comment about Congress confirming "...ANYONE that’s the least little bit RIGHT of Sessions":
No doubt she is correct. Partly because it will be equally difficult just finding anyone to his Right to even nominate. DOJeff has a lifetime 95% conservative rating. NRA: A+ rating. Etc.
If I would have known Trump was going recuse on defending our gun rights, I would not have voted for him.
Same goes for Trump's first pre-official (post-election, pre-inauguration) flip/flop regarding whether to pursue 'crooked Hillary' for crimes committed. If he would told me before the election that he was going to immediately recuse on that issue, then I would not have voted for him.
I won't try to predict Trump's behavior. But comparing the Sessions situation to the Tillerson one is silly. The SOS was way off from Trump on policy. Whereas DOJeff is responsible for Trump's greatest policy 'winning' streak on his number one campaign issue: the battle against illegal immigration.
At least Jeff's recusal was arguably logical in a by-the-book legal sense. Trump's recusals have been strictly political and self-serving at Freedom's expense.
My understanding is that, since Pruit has already been thru the process for his present position - he can just transition over without having to be confirmed again? I understand that Pruit is one heck of a prosecutor?
'been hoping this would be done for a long time -
Also, been suspicious that Sessions has been acting as the Deep State Gate Keeper ever since he recused himself - now to find the he followed a Deep-lawyers advice - shenanigans - yeah - he takes his orders from the other side.
All the cr*p of the past year+ that Pres. Trump has had working against him - and US - as well as all the REAL criminals skating free - is at Sessions feet.
Time for Sessions cheering squad to wake up and smell the coffee..
I don't know what else you'd call it. He lied - by omission - by taking the job when he knew he was going to , basically, refuse to do it...
He not only shafted the President - he shafted US - the country - putting us all in grave jeopardy while allowing the Deep State to operate their Sedition - while covering for the real criminals...
I submit to you that Sessions, by stepping out of the way of the Deep State, for whatever reason (blackmail, threat to family???) is just a culpable - maybe more so, as he criminals running this show...We could STILL lose our country, for G*ds sake.
Not smelled, need to inject it, IV, and get their mind right.
Before he took office, Donald Trump knew what had to be done and how it had to be done, and put his team in place:
- President-elect Trump nominated Jeff Sessions -- a 12-year United States Attorney and the Attorney General of Alabama before he became a senator -- knows from experience how to investigate and prosecute conspiracies, and to keep his mouth shut while doing it.
- President Trump then nominated Rod Rosenstein (the 12-year United States Attorney for Maryland) to replace the traitorous Obama holdover, Sally Yates.
- President Trump retained DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who directs hundreds of investigators (lawyers) but was stonewalled by AGs Holder and Lynch until Rep. Chaffetz pushed through the Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2016 (HR 6450) to codify Horowitz's authority to compel production of documents.
- President Trump nominated Jessie Liu as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. USA Liu is has a passion to MAGA by prosecuting pedophiles, and was publicly taunting the Podesta brothers until Twitter suspended her personal account last Thursday. Liu is right over the target and they got the message.
President Trump is no fool -- and other than a few pearl-clutching FReepers, Trump's enemies are the only ones who look scared. They are terrified of what is being done behind the scenes. Trust President Trump.
Explain your answer...
Trump should just do it and be done with it. Sessions was a loser from day one and that hasn’t changed since.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Republicans have actually kept the Senate in session, using parliamentary tricks, the entire time Trump has been in office so he couldn't do any recess appointments.
About point B. Congress is in an election year,,,,if Trump fires a shot across the Senate’s bow and fires both Sessions and Rosenstein, then even the threats of impeachment are off the table. Congress doesn’t want the mess.
“Business Insider” is just a bunch of Libtard churnalists. They know less than nothing, because much of what they think they “know” is wrong.
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