True he has gotten some mild verbal support but if pressure mounts trump will not be dissuaded. Unless the big repub hitters tell trump they will pass law for special independent prosecutor doubt their soft protestations matter. To trump it is all about trump. And if sessions did talk with Russian ambassador about election strategy, then he has stake in it to and trump would use that as leverage to get him to bow out.
As trump said today “time will tell”
Trump isn’t the only guy in politics with an ego. Sooner or later there will be some real clashes.
Mueller and Sessions aren’t just going to away whimpering.
We’ve already had one: Comey almost singlehandely engineered the assignment of a special prosecutor. He certainly didn’t go away quietly.
And if sessions did talk with Russian ambassador about election strategy, then he has stake in it to and trump would use that as leverage to get him to bow out.
That’s an interesting situation Trump would be in- admit some level of collusion with Russians during the election by the guy he selected to be AG (who he has now said he wouldn’t nominate if he’d known Sessions would have recused himself) to get out of an investigation on his own collusion with the Russians in the election. I’m sure his ball washers would buy that BS.
In other news, Tillerson is taking time off to go to Texas. I wish he would have drawn on Davy Crockett and came out with an official statement to the effect of “You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.â€
Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russian investigation on March 2nd, but Trump started making a big deal about it in the last few days.
I’m sure it’s only a co-incidence that he brought it up at the same time Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort agreed to testify. To use that as a smokescreen to divert attention doesn’t seem to be working out as well as he hoped…
Trump isn’t the only guy in politics with an ego. Sooner or later there will be some real clashes.
Mueller and Sessions aren’t just going to away whimpering.
We’ve already had one: Comey almost singlehandely engineered the assignment of a special prosecutor. He certainly didn’t go away quietly.
Right. And he really did serve at the pleasure of the president.
The Sessions thing is weird. Not sure why he isn’t firing him. There has to be more to that story.
I don’t get the people who complain that so and so has an obsession with Trump. This is our nation’s highest offices, politics is fascinating to a lot of people, and shit like this has not happened in most of our adult lifetimes. If you throw in some boobs and some dragons we could get this on HBO.
I don’t get the people who complain that so and so has an obsession with Trump. This is our nation’s highest offices, politics is fascinating to a lot of people, and shit like this has not happened in most of our adult lifetimes. If you throw in some boobs and some dragons we could get this on HBO.
Yes, you do get it. It’s the same play Trump himself uses: “Look! Over there!”.
Rather than defend the indefensible, Trump supporters try to make the complainers into the issue. Never argue the facts.
The Sessions thing is weird. Not sure why he isn’t firing him. There has to be more to that story.
one speculation i’ve heard is that firing him would lop this onto the pile of deeds that accrue to obstruction of justice (were that charge to be sought). but i think haranguing him into leaving is a distinction without a difference - this still ends up on that pile.
to me, there is a nexus with matthew 25:40, which says as you will remember, “‘truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’”
it’s vicarious acts i’m talking about. to me, that’s what comes to mind. not just when you act indifferently to someone in need, you act indifferently to him or to anyone. also (to me) when somebody else acts badly and you act indifferently, that bad act accrues to you, as in edmund burke’s “good men do nothing.”
i would never treat an employee the way sessions is treated, and i’m no sessions fan. this speaks not only to the kind of employer trump is, but the kind of man he is. there are no more anecdotes from ivanka about the nice way he treats employees that will any longer work. that currency is gone.
it is highly offensive to me as an employer, as a man, as an american, as a human, to see one person humiliate another, especially someone in one’s employ, especially in public. this one ranks right up there as among the vilest things i’ve seen trump do.
but it’s gotten to the point now where i’m also watching others who are in a position of power and who are doing nothing. if i’m sessions i just got a really good lesson in what matters to folks you thought were your friends, and that lesson is the gift that’s going to keep on giving for awhile.
The Sessions thing is weird. Not sure why he isn’t firing him. There has to be more to that story. //
Well from what I can tell from the talking heads is that he is waiting for the senate to go on vacation. Then he can put up his yes man and get Mueller fired, all without any oversight. If he does it now then the senate has to confirm whoever he puts up, and I think they have had just about enough now too, at least I hope so.
I would love it if he did this and they all flew back to block whoever he put up, is that allowed or even feasible?
Yeah, I don’t get why Trump seemingly throws his own people under the bus. Sessions, Rosenstein, Mattis, Christie, Pompeo. I’m probably missing a few. And even to a lesser extent Bannon and Priebus. The only people off limits seem to be his immediate family.
During the campaign I used to wonder if there was some kind of genius strategy to Trump’s attempts at public humiliation. Now I just think it’s barroom flailing - reactively punching at anyone based purely on emotion, with no end-game in mind,
Wait. You’re just realizing that there is no strategy? He has no master plan. He a complete loon. This has always been very obvious.
“this speaks not only to the kind of employer trump is, but the kind of man he is.”
Dan, I know you know this, but he’s been telling us and showing us, explicitly and unambiguously, for the last two years, exactly who and what he is. The only people who don’t see this, and all of what came before, and will certainly follow, for what it is, will never, ever, under any circumstances, change their minds.
Perhaps this all comes as a surprise to our Attorney General, but for our nation’s sake, I sincerely hope not.
I don’t get the people who complain that so and so has an obsession with Trump. This is our nation’s highest offices, politics is fascinating to a lot of people, and shit like this has not happened in most of our adult lifetimes. If you throw in some boobs and some dragons we could get this on HBO.
Yes, you do get it. It’s the same play Trump himself uses: “Look! Over there!”.
Rather than defend the indefensible, Trump supporters try to make the complainers into the issue. Never argue the facts.
I do, but it just isn’t how I operate. If I don’t like you, you probably know it. If I have something to say, it gets said. I’m a little more straightforward and as someone once said on a review from a previous employer, brusque and abrupt. (They meant it as a criticism, I was perfectly ok with it)