The Night of the Long Knives is looming for Ku Klux Keebler…
It’s not “a big deal”? “Full confidence of the President”?
Ruh-roh…
Senate wants Sessions to appear again.
The President obviously has confidence in Attorney General Sessions, otherwise he’d be with Jimmy Hoffa right now.
They are in constant “cover-up” mode. When will the GOP take action on this nonsense? I guess I know the answer is “never.”
Protect Trump and his family. You do that, you stay. You don’t, you’re fired.
“The President knows that the attorney general is trying hard and he appreciates that…”
So now Sessions is taking shit from Sanders. Sad.
Sad for the country that this is what one branch of our federal government has become.
Maybe Sessions actually likes getting slapped around. It’s almost a job requirement.
If Trump is displeased Sessions recused himself, it means he has no compunctions that his sitting AG has lied repeatedly and under oath about his meetings with Russian agents. Meaning the chief law enforcement officer of the country is guilty of perjury and may well be criminally indicted.
We get so caught up in the multiple scandals facing this Administration, that this kind of thing becomes almost humdrum. I think it’s worth pointing out how appalling this is and how far we’ve strayed from our principles.
Recusal was the very least Sessions could do in this situation. Any other AG would have resigned and any other President would have demanded it.
We need a national commission to combat normality bias for this one.
“The President knows that the attorney general is trying hard …"
This is the kind of language you’d use with a child in elementary school or a kid who wants to be on the varsity squad but is relegated to the bench.
imo, Trump hasn’t fired Sessions because (a) he still considers Sessions to be useful; (b) Sessions has backers in the inner circle; or © the WH wants to have a replacement lined up before Sessions goes.
Are there other plausible options??
Of course Sessions is on the way out. Who will they replace him with?
The churn in this administration is incredible and Trump’s attitude takes a lot of the blame. He makes it thankless to serve him. At this point the replacements are less and less credible, respectable or competent; only the mediocre need apply. It’s one thing to work for a difficult boss or have a crap job, another to add the factor that doing so is career-ending on the professional or political level. It’s like joining the Nixon Admin in the summer of '74.
Lost too frequently in all this is the fact he was required to recuse himself. It seems no one has mentioned that to Trump, far as he’s concerned the AG is just another golf course manager.
The President has a deeply ingrained sense of personal loyalty? Yeah, he’s feeling conflicted.
FIFY.
Sessions is toast. As Maddow points out, if Dear Leader gets rid of Sessions and manages to get another AG confirmed, who presumably would not be recused on Russia or campaign matters, it makes it a lot easier for him to do away with Mueller.
Too right. Sessions recusal was simply to try and run out the clock based on his past Senatorial privilege… Senate comity and deference as a shield to his out & out lying under oath.
Funny how Cruz got (rightfully) lambasted for breaking Senate tradition with spurious allegations about a Defense Secretary nominee, but even Democrats are reluctant to point out the obvious when it comes to AG Sessions. SMH.
Trump is waiting for Sessions to realize the errors of his ways and un-recuse himself, so he can drop the hammers on Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller for believing the fake news?
“If people are very, very thin-skinned, I think it’s going to be super tough to work for this President,”
This president said things about a political appointee that would cause him to resign immediately in any normal administration. The story here is about an erratic president and an appointee who has neither a sense of duty nor honor in relation to the constitution he has vowed to serve.
The only saving grace in this situation (and, I use the term “grace” in a very ironic sense) is that Sessions non-resignation makes it a bit more difficult for Trump to fire Mr. Mueller. I’m pretty sure he’ll still try to do the firing, but difficult is better.
Sessions knows too much?