Sessions hits back at Trump: DOJ won't be 'improperly influenced'

[ProudModerate2]

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[Badger]

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Nice to see, but at the same time he strikes me as someone ready to kick Trump only when he's down after Cohen and manafort wound up convicted. But otherwise remaining Trump's little pussy b****.

[Abolish ICE]

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Nice to see, but at the same time he strikes me as someone ready to kick Trump only when he's down after Cohen and manafort wound up convicted. But otherwise remaining Trump's little pussy b****.

[ProudModerate2]

I have this strange feeling that trump will aggressively act to remove (or try to remove) Sessions.
The Orange Clown probably has some kind of narcissistic fear/mistrust, that Sessions is no longer on his side, and cant control him like a puppet.
He will scream and argue with the lawyers about it (and this will leak out), but I'm not sure if he will actually pull the trigger.
I imagine he is one pissed-off, hot-Tangerine at the moment (with all the bad news. IE: Cohen, Manafort, his forced admission that he paid-off pornstars/women, etc), and who knows where his explosive nature will go.

[Progressive Pessimist]

It makes me sick that I have to root for Sessions in these circumstances.

[The Night Owlditor]

It makes me sick that I have to root for Sessions in these circumstances.

Same. Just goes to show how criminal the tangerine tyrant is when someone as deplorable as Jeff Sessions is showing more integrity and respect for the rule of law. Sad!

[Sir Mohamed]

It makes me sick that I have to root for Sessions in these circumstances.

Yup. I congratulate Donald Trump that he got me to applaud Jeff Sessions.

To me, it seems that the orange clown has very little understanding what the mission of the Justice Department is. He thinks it's the president's lawyer that has to protect him. Something like "when the president does it, it is not illegal."

[Bea O'Problem]

Sessions will soon be fired. Trump can't control himself.

[JA]

Oh, so now Mr. I Don't Recall is going to pretend that he has some ethics or a backbone? Give me a break. The only reason he has even said this is because (a) he knows that his time as AG is limited or (b) he senses Trump is in a weakened position. He knew about whatever criminal activity happened during the campaign and intentionally used the "I don't recall" line to protect himself both from outing the man who made him AG (and possibly from incriminating himself) and perjuring himself.

[Sir Mohamed]

TRUMP strikes back, via Twitter of course.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1032934937962442754

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1032937718219714560

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1032948187416416256

[Wrong about 2024 Ghost]

Lol at how wanna-be tyrant Trump immediately conflates "non-partisan" with "use your office against my enemies".

[Torie]

In other news, Senators Grassley and Graham seem to give Trump the green light to fire Sessions after the election. Beyond that move by Trump being nutter, even from his near sociopathic perspective, I can't think of worse optics to put out there before the election. It is like saying that after the voters vote, even more outrageous things are in store for us. Some voters might think the reasonable response to that is to vote against every Pub running for the Senate. Some of them at least seem into enabling that man.

[Wrong about 2024 Ghost]

In other news, Senators Grassley and Graham seem to give Trump the green light to fire Sessions after the election. Beyond that move by Trump being nutter, even from his near sociopathic perspective, I can't think of worse optics to put out there before the election. It is like saying that after the voters vote, even more outrageous things are in store for us. Some voters might think the reasonable response to that is to vote against every Pub running for the Senate. Some of them at least seem into enabling that man.

Perhaps they are desperately trying to convince him to not fire Sessions before the mid-terms?

[Sir Mohamed]

In other news, Senators Grassley and Graham seem to give Trump the green light to fire Sessions after the election. Beyond that move by Trump being nutter, even from his near sociopathic perspective, I can't think of worse optics to put out there before the election. It is like saying that after the voters vote, even more outrageous things are in store for us. Some voters might think the reasonable response to that is to vote against every Pub running for the Senate. Some of them at least seem into enabling that man.

That's really pathetic. I thought they would back their former colleague against the ridiculous Trump attacks. The GOP deserves to lose the senate. So, come on, Mr. Drumpf, fire him before the midterms to sink the GOP even further in the subsequent firestorm.

[Torie]

In other news, Senators Grassley and Graham seem to give Trump the green light to fire Sessions after the election. Beyond that move by Trump being nutter, even from his near sociopathic perspective, I can't think of worse optics to put out there before the election. It is like saying that after the voters vote, even more outrageous things are in store for us. Some voters might think the reasonable response to that is to vote against every Pub running for the Senate. Some of them at least seem into enabling that man.

Perhaps they are desperately trying to convince him to not fire Sessions before the mid-terms?

But why go public with it? Isn't that just crazy? Beyond that, no new AG would be confirmable except one whom Trump would like a heck of a lot less than Sessions.

[Wrong about 2024 Ghost]

In other news, Senators Grassley and Graham seem to give Trump the green light to fire Sessions after the election. Beyond that move by Trump being nutter, even from his near sociopathic perspective, I can't think of worse optics to put out there before the election. It is like saying that after the voters vote, even more outrageous things are in store for us. Some voters might think the reasonable response to that is to vote against every Pub running for the Senate. Some of them at least seem into enabling that man.

Perhaps they are desperately trying to convince him to not fire Sessions before the mid-terms?

But why go public with it? Isn't that just crazy? Beyond that, no new AG would be confirmable except one whom Trump would like a heck of a lot less than Sessions.

Playing devil's advocate for Grassley and Graham, maybe they're going public because it's the best way to get through to him? If they can get Fox & Friends to just repeat the idea, that's going to be much more effective than direct appeals from senators. Especially senators who, no matter how supportive they might be, haven't grovelled and kissed enough shoe leather to have his ear.

As for the realities of appointing a new AG... maybe they're lying and will try to make him see reason later. Or maybe they don't even have a plan and are just trying to get past November without a Constitutional Crisis.

[Badger]

In other news, Senators Grassley and Graham seem to give Trump the green light to fire Sessions after the election. Beyond that move by Trump being nutter, even from his near sociopathic perspective, I can't think of worse optics to put out there before the election. It is like saying that after the voters vote, even more outrageous things are in store for us. Some voters might think the reasonable response to that is to vote against every Pub running for the Senate. Some of them at least seem into enabling that man.

Perhaps they are desperately trying to convince him to not fire Sessions before the mid-terms?

But why go public with it? Isn't that just crazy? Beyond that, no new AG would be confirmable except one whom Trump would like a heck of a lot less than Sessions.

Playing devil's advocate for Grassley and Graham, maybe they're going public because it's the best way to get through to him? If they can get Fox & Friends to just repeat the idea, that's going to be much more effective than direct appeals from senators. Especially senators who, no matter how supportive they might be, haven't grovelled and kissed enough shoe leather to have his ear.

As for the realities of appointing a new AG... maybe they're lying and will try to make him see reason later. Or maybe they don't even have a plan and are just trying to get past November without a Constitutional Crisis.

Maybe they're hoping to rush a replacement nominee through during the lame duck session?

[IceSpear]

It wouldn't surprise me if both Sessions and Mueller are gone by the the new year, regardless of the outcome of the midterms.

[ProudModerate2]

George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, criticized President Donald Trump for failing to understand his job enforcing the law in the wake of Trump's attacks against his attorney general ...

https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1032962945087668224

[Storebought]

Like an astute poster mentioned before, Trump is an idiot for trying so hard to get rid of his most competent effective cabinet appointee.

[ProudModerate2]

Do you guys think there is a chance that Sessions could turn on trump, if he was fired?
Like Sessions all of a sudden "remembering" some of trump's shenanigans, and disclosing such information (and evidence) to Mueller & team.

[Democrat 2028]

Do you guys think there is a chance that Sessions could turn on trump, if he was fired?
Like Sessions all of a sudden "remembering" some of trump's shenanigans, and disclosing such information (and evidence) to Mueller & team.

I think so. Firing him means Sessions no longer has any reason to remain loyal to him.

[Mr. Smith]

too late for that.

[ProudModerate2]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1033332301579661312

[Mr. Morden]

Beyond that, no new AG would be confirmable except one whom Trump would like a heck of a lot less than Sessions.

Are you sure about that?  It's very conceivable that the partisan makeup of the next Senate will be the same as the current one, except with 1) no McCain, 2) no Corker, and 3) no Flake.  Three of the Senate Republicans most likely to criticize Trump on things like this will be gone.  Given that, why is it so unthinkable to imagine that Trump could win confirmation for someone with more personal loyalty to him than Sessions?