President says "Jeff Sessions is scared stiff and missing in action"

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Not exactly a good job review there Jeff.

Trump has done the right thing by putting up with that clown rather than feeding into the impeachment movement by firing him, but as we get toward next year, he is going to find out that Mueller's endless witch-hunt does not equate to endless job security for him.

How the hell can people argue anyway that firing him is interference in the Mueller investigation. I thought the whole frigging purpose of having an independent prosecutor was so that the AG could be independent and the investigation would go on even if the President needed to interact and take action as needed on justice department matters. Trump has fired many/most agency heads and key officials many times over since he has been there so it can hardly be argued that he is only singling out Sessions- who is probably the worst performer in the bunch.

There is a double standard here where Mueller has not gone near Camp Hillary issues because it allegedly is not part of his chartered mission, yet Trump can not take action against Sessions for doing nothing because Sessions says it is part of staying out of Mueller's investigation. This little clown show will get broken up at some point and it wont be pretty.

And in an unrelated-related matter, Trump is no longer worshipping Jared and his political skills. That little period has ended. And Jared is the one who kaiboshed any role for Chris Christie because Christie put his father in the slammer for a few years. Don't think for a minute that Trump wont reconsider him for AG when Sessions goes to the dumpster after Christmas or so. I am not a big Christie fan, but when it comes to Sessions, sometimes the best way to change people is to change people.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...may-get-involved-to-force-fbi-on-mccabe-texts
 
Trump is being told that voters love him and the republicans because of tax cuts and the booming economy. And that they must not rock the boat and upset all those "moderates" who dutifully tell pollsters they dislike all the controversy and just want the pols to work together.

Normally astute Laura Inghram even tweeted that. So basically drop the Trump strategy which won and adopt the low energy Jeb! approach.

By this point, it must be obvious to even cuck republicans that Sessions is not up the AG job and must be replaced. And even if he is retained at least Rosenstein and Bruce Ohr need to be fired. Both can credibly be fired for cause. Rosenstein for misleading the FISA court, Ohr for conspiring with Fusion GPS.
 
AAAintheBeltway said:
By this point, it must be obvious to even cuck republicans that Sessions is not up the AG job and must be replaced. And even if he is retained at least Rosenstein and Bruce Ohr need to be fired. Both can credibly be fired for cause. Rosenstein for misleading the FISA court, Ohr for conspiring with Fusion GPS.
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Under Rosenstein, and by inaction from Sessions, the DOJ seems to be creating this little purgatory or penalty box where people can sent until the dems win the house- with no clear disposition of their cases and offenses.

McCabe, Strzok, Comey, and Page are there now. When Ohr goes it will be a re-assignment and he will go there. Same with Rosenstein eventually. Then when the climate blows over they will just carry on. Especially if the dems take the house which is likely but not a given. Although that is not a complete end to the issues even if that happens, since the republicans will maintain or even increase their hold on the senate and they can shift the investigation that the House Intel has been doing over to the Senate Intel or Judiciary Committees.
 
Why are all the weed stocks up so much today? I don't think its pin action from STZ upping their stake in CGC...
Look at TLRY, and there are several more. All way up. The whole Canada thing is priced in. STZ is too...

.... Could word have leaked that Sessions is getting canned?
Just a thought.
 
vanzandt said:
Why are all the weed stocks up so much today? I don't think its pin action from STZ upping their stake in CGC...
Look at TLRY, and there are several more. All way up. The whole Canada thing is priced in. STZ is too...

.... Could word have leaked that Sessions is getting canned?
Just a thought.
More...
See.... I knew those weed stocks would lead the news about him leaving. I've been saying it for a year, waiting.... and now in the last week these stocks are soaring. Thats not the STZ deal.
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Graham Says He Expects Trump to Oust Sessions After Elections
By Steven T. Dennis
August 23, 2018, 11:58 AM EDT
Updated on
August 23, 2018, 12:14 PM EDT

‘President’s entitled to an attorney general he has faith in’
A new attorney general could take control of the Mueller probe



Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said it’s “very likely” President Donald Trump will replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions but warned against doing so before the midterm elections.

“The president’s entitled to an attorney general he has faith in, somebody that’s qualified for the job, and I think there will come a time, sooner rather than later, where it will be time to have a new face and a fresh voice at the Department of Justice,” said Graham of South Carolina, who may be in line to head the Judiciary Committee next year. “Clearly, Attorney General Sessions doesn’t have the confidence of the president.”

Graham however warned against acting before the election, calling that possibility “a nonstarter.” That “would create havoc” with Senate efforts to confirm Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and with the midterm elections in November, he said.
Mueller Probe

Trump often takes aim at Sessions, a former Republican senator he has attacked and ridiculed for recusing himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election that’s now being run by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Graham has provided a sometimes confounding mix of criticism and praise for Trump, who sometimes invites the senator to golf at one of his resorts. It wasn’t clear why Graham would publicly predict Trump will take such a politically explosive action even as the senator said it should be delayed.

If Trump replaces Sessions -- who has so far resisted Trump’s very public hints that he should resign -- a new attorney general could take over the investigation and fire Mueller or cripple his probe.

Trump wouldn’t need to wait until his new choice for attorney general was confirmed by the Senate, which would be a difficult fight. He could install an interim attorney general directly after ousting Sessions, although some legal experts argue that the powers of such an interim appointee would be limited.

“We have somebody who they seem to go after a lot of Republicans,” Trump said of Sessions in an interview with Fox News that aired Thursday, adding that the inability of his attorney general to "control" his department was "a regrettable thing."

Graham’s comments could indicate that Mueller faces a deadline to finish his Russia investigation before November’s election. Mueller is investigating Russia’s operation to interfere in the 2016 president election and whether Trump or any of his associates colluded.
Grassley Has Time

Asked about a possible replacement for Sessions, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley took a different position from a year ago, when he warned the White House he didn’t have time to do another confirmation hearing that year.

“I do have time for hearings on nominees that the president might send up here that I didn’t have last year,” Grassley of Iowa said Thursday in a telephone interview. Grassley has clashed with Sessions this year because of the attorney general’s intense opposition to Grassley’s efforts to pass a criminal justice overhaul.

Grassley said, though, that Kavanaugh’s confirmation would take precedence over any other nominees Trump might send to the Senate.

Grassley declined to comment specifically on the fate of Sessions when asked about Graham’s prediction the president will replace him after the election.

— With assistance by Chris Strohm
 
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