And apparently you have either not been paying attention or have not drawn common sense conclusions. We know for certain from what both Sessions and Trump have said publicly that Sessions did not inform Trump of his intention to recuse before Sessions took the job. We know he refuses to resign despite the public excoriation heaped on Sessions by Trump. We know the president has been threatened by Republican senators that they would not move an AG nomination if Trump fired Sessions. We know all that and more from the public record. But you seem to be among the few who need a brick wall to fall on them before they see the problem.
“We know all that and more from the public record. But you seem to be among the few who need a brick wall to fall on them before they see the problem.”
No, I just need actual facts - these things you claim to know are questionable to say the least.
1) If we follow Sessions’ public testimony, it doesn’t really make sense that Trump was caught off guard by Sessions’s recusal. The overriding theme of his confirmation hearing was his effort to assuage their concerns regarding conflict of interest in light of the fact that he was involved in the Trump campaign. He was asked a dozen times by Dick Durbin and others whether he would recuse himself from any jurisdiction presenting potential conflicts, and was presented with numerous hypotheticals, including that of a hypothetical Russian/Trump collusion investigation (remember, this predated the Mueller investigation) and answered numerous times in the affirmative and assured the committee that he would recuse himself from anything he should recuse himself from. Trump has no basis for feeling betrayed or blindsided.
2) Not resigning in the face of “public excoriation” is not the same as refusing to resign. Refusing to resign is when you are asked to resign but you refuse. You don’t know for a fact that Trump even wants Sesdions to resign.
3) The idea that Senate Republicans would block confirmation of a replacement AG should Trump fire Jeff Sessions arose from a statement made by Grassly in the fall of 2017 that specifically related to 2017. He was saying the 2017 schedule was full and that there was no way Trump would get a new AG confirmed in 2017. This statement has been touted over and over again by Sessions haters as the explanation for why Trump “can’t fire Sessions”.
You don’t know that Trump even wants to fire Sessions.
Like I said, you don’t know what you claim to know.
You are entitled to your opinions regarding Trump’s opinion of and working relationship with Jeff Sessions - but you won’t really “know” until you read the Trump Memoirs after he leaves office.
What he chooses to say in his tweets is for broad public consumption - it’s what he wants the public to hear (including the fake news, the deep state, and his strongest supporters, and everyone else) You have to assume there is the occasional misdirection.