Sessions Out

Tom B said:
I think it was a mistake to ask Sessions to resign now. He should have waited until Mueller finished his investigation.
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No. Rosenstein has been behind this all along. All the delays, all the grandstanding. There was nothing Jeffy was doing or was going to do in this regard. Better to have someone actually managing Rosenstein. I mean seriously, how much longer do you think this investigation will go on? And remember Jeffy said if Trump fired Rosenstein, he would resign. So now, it's the best of both worlds. Jeffy is gone and Rosenstein won't be able to tell congress to fuck off any longer.

One would hope.
 
Mitt Romney is setting terms:

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elderado said:
No. Rosenstein has been behind this all along. All the delays, all the grandstanding. There was nothing Jeffy was doing or was going to do in this regard. Better to have someone actually managing Rosenstein. I mean seriously, how much longer do you think this investigation will go on? And remember Jeffy said if Trump fired Rosenstein, he would resign. So now, it's the best of both worlds. Jeffy is gone and Rosenstein won't be able to tell congress to fuck off any longer.

One would hope.
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I think Mueller will finish the investigation by the end of the year.
 
UsualName said:
Mitt Romney is setting terms:

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Surely he'll recuse from the Russia investigation?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...used-about-choking-off-robert-muellers-funds/

Trump’s potential new attorney general once mused about a new attorney general defunding Mueller

President Trump declined Thursday to deny that he was eyeing Matthew Whitaker as a replacement for Attorney General Jeff Sessions. And suddenly, Whitaker’s past skepticism about the Russia investigation has taken on new significance.

Whitaker’s Russia commentary first cropped up when he was reported to be a likely replacement for Sessions’s No. 2, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, a few weeks ago. Installing him as the No. 1, though, would give Whitaker even more power. It’s not clear he would take oversight of the Russia investigation, but there are other ways in which he could influence it.

“So I could see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment,” Whitaker said, “and that attorney general doesn’t fire Bob Mueller, but he just reduces his budget to so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt.”

It was the second time in the same interview that Whitaker brought up the defunding idea. He said Rosenstein could also be pressured to do it.

“I think what ultimately the president is going to start doing is putting pressure on Rod J. Rosenstein, who is in charge of this investigation, is acting attorney general, and really try to get Rod to maybe even cut the budget of Bob Mueller and do something a little more stage crafty than the blunt instrument of firing the attorney general and trying to replace him,” Whitaker said.

Whitaker has made it clear he doesn’t particularly like how far Mueller has gone. He wrote an op-ed in August 2017 titled, “Mueller’s investigation of Trump is going too far” that urged Rosenstein to “limit the scope of this investigation.”

“The President is absolutely correct,”Whitaker said after Trump suggested that Mueller investigating his finances would cross a red line. “Mueller has come up to a red line in the Russia 2016 election-meddling investigation that he is dangerously close to crossing.”

He has also downplayed the idea that anything illegal was done at the Trump Tower meeting, saying, “You would always take the meeting."
 
Someone in this forum a few weeks back predicted that Sessions would resign shortly after the election. Don't remember who.

They need to step up and collect their prize.
 
gwb-trading said:
Someone in this forum a few weeks back predicted that Sessions would resign shortly after the election. Don't remember who.

They need to step up and collect their prize.
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I said he would be gone right after the election, although I certainly did not use the word "resign." And never will unless anyone thinks Sessions resigned.

So I guess I am not the lucky one who will win the prize- a free ET refrigerator magnet.

Life can be cruel. I came close though. Nothing I like more than the smell of free stuff in the morning.
 
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