Posted on 09/19/2018 6:26:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump in an Oval Office interview with Hill.TV launched one of his most ferocious broadsides to date against Jeff Sessions, suggesting the attorney general was essentially AWOL and performing badly on a variety of issues.
“I don’t have an Attorney General. It’s very sad,” Trump told Hill.TV in an extensive and free-wheeling interview Tuesday from the Oval Office.
The president has long excoriated Sessions for his March2017 decision to recuse himself from the Russia collusion investigation. But on Tuesday he suggested he is frustrated by Sessions' performance on far more than that.
“I’m not happy at the border, I’m not happy with numerous things, not just this,” he said.
Trump suggested he had a personal blind spot when it came to nominating Sessions as the nation’s top law enforcement officer.
“I’m so sad over Jeff Sessions because he came to me. He was the first Senator that endorsed me. And he wanted to be Attorney General, and I didn’t see it,” he said.
“And then he went through the nominating process and he did very poorly. I mean, he was mixed up and confused, and people that worked with him for, you know, a long time in the Senate were not nice to him, but he was giving very confusing answers. Answers that should have been easily answered. And that was a rough time for him.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
If you really feel that way, why haven’t you FIRED him?
Passing the buck is unworthy if you! You ARE the President and the buck stops with you.
this should send shivers through all the democrats... according to the Art of the Deal, just before playing your winning hand, underplay the lead up so the impact is more devastating and make it seem as though your opponent might have a chance of winning...
what a winning president. just in time for October...
“,,,suggesting the attorney general was essentially AWOL and performing badly on a variety of issues....”
Hmm, we’ve noticed.
If you really feel that way, why haven’t you FIRED him?
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I talked with Trump. He told me he was not firing Sessions just to piss you off.
“why haven’t you FIRED him?”
Maybe he doesn’t need an Attorney General at the moment.
Well, Mr. PRESIDENT, either fire him or stop talking about it. The endless complaints do not serve Trump well.
The thought of anything to do with our DOJ sending shivers through Democrats is laughable.
TRUMP can't fire Sessions until Mueller's probe is OVER!!!
how inappropriate is this piece from a so-called major news agency? they should be embarrassed about it, from start to finish:
18 Sept: AP: Trump declassifies documents related to FBI Russia probe
By CHAD DAY; Mary Clare Jalonick, Eric Tucker and Deb Riechmann contributed to this report
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday declassified a trove of documents related to the early days of the FBI’s Russia investigation, including a portion of a secret surveillance warrant application and former FBI Director James Comey’s text messages.
Trump made the extraordinary move in response to calls from his allies in Congress who say they believe the Russia investigation was tainted by anti-Trump bias within the ranks of the FBI and Justice Department. It also came as Trump continued his efforts to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe in the wake of the guilty plea of his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and amid the ongoing grand jury investigation into a longtime associate, Roger Stone.
Trump’s decision will result in the release of text messages and documents involving several top Justice Department and FBI officials who Trump has repeatedly attacked over the last year...
The move comes after a small group of Republicans in Congress, all staunch allies of Trump, held a news conference last week asking him to declassify the documents. Democrats criticized the effort, saying the GOP lawmakers are trying to discredit the Justice Department in an effort to protect Trump from Mueller’s investigation...
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland and Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, the ranking Democrats on the House Oversight and Judiciary committees, said in a statement that Trump’s actions were a “direct and frantic response” to Manafort’s recent guilty plea and cooperation agreement with Mueller.
“With the walls clearly closing in on him, President Trump is lashing out with this extraordinarily reckless and irresponsible release of classified information in a desperate attempt to distract from the seven guilty pleas and the mounting evidence of multiple criminal enterprises among his closest advisors,” they said.
https://www.apnews.com/655dbf3cb3e246ebb057ec024483e9d9
If Jeff was there to serve The President he would have resigned.
“Trust the plan”?
add Eric Tucker to the long list of AP reporters responsible for the trash I just posted. I accidentally left him out.
my guess is this article would not have been published if it weren’t for the imminent release of intel documents. it’s lengthy and TOTALLY confused, but well worth a read:
19 Sept: Guardian: ‘Trumpwashing’: the danger of turning the Republican resistance into liberal heroes
As figures once reviled by the left are hailed for their opposition to Trump, critics warn against forgetting the past
by David Smith in Washington
Not so long ago, the idea of liberals hankering nostalgically for Bush, hanging on Kissinger’s words or cheering assertions of American exceptionalism would have been unthinkable. Likewise the idea of rooting for the rightwing attorney general Jeff Sessions, the former FBI director and registered Republican Robert Mueller, and other mandarins of the so-called “deep state”. Yet old certainties have been shaken, roles reversed and loyalties scrambled by Trump’s profoundly unorthodox presidency.
According to Dan Kovalik, a human rights and labour lawyer and adjunct law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, the liberal left was already in ideological confusion when Trump turbo-charged the process. “In short, liberals have decided that ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’, especially when ‘my enemy’ is Donald J Trump,” he wrote via email.
“And so, bizarrely, liberals have decided that the CIA and FBI – despite their well-known history of suppressing civil liberties and civil rights in this country and abroad – are now noble institutions which should be believed and respected. This is because the CIA and FBI have largely taken an oppositional stance towards Trump.”...
Liberals’ default scepticism about the FBI, CIA and NSA [National Security Agency] has also taken a hit...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/19/trumpwashing-republican-resistance-trump-dangers-history
The AP is a Marxist organization masquerading as a news service. Nothing they do surprises me anymore.
Are you saying, “Sessions IS the swamp”?
Agreed. There is something big coming up and Sessions has been working it. Trump does not suffer fools gladly, and if two years on he has not fired Sessions, he is pleased with what has been occurring in the shadows and will soon come to light.
one last thing - where are all the FakeNewsMSM pieces on the Dems trying to stop the declassification of documents, etc??? NYT? WaPo? Networks?
feeling nervous, are they?
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