Trump: Sessions is 'scared stiff and missing in action'

[skeeter]

So ... @jpsb what you are saying is NOT that Trump cannot fire Sessions, but that it would be a political disaster to do so.

I don't get that but whatever.

Not only that but how could firing a man who is in no way involved in the investigation be considered obstruction?

[240B]

Session is only allowed to do whatever Rosenstein tells him to do. Barking at Sessions is a waste of time. Rosenstein is running the show over there. Sessions is only his assistant, or intern or something like that. Sessions asks Rosenstein for permission before he goes to the bathroom. Yelling at Sessions about anything is useless. He has no authority or power over anything. He has recused himself into obscurity.

[darroll]

Where are the headlines?

"Trump hits Sessions in the head with a big stick" Because he went into Trumps cat house.

[jpsb]

So ... @jpsb what you are saying is NOT that Trump cannot fire Sessions, but that it would be a political disaster to do so.

I don't get that but whatever.

We agree to disagree, yes?

[XenaLee]

Not only that but how could firing a man who is in no way involved in the investigation be considered obstruction?

Then why did the GOP elitists/RINOs threaten Trump if he fired Sessions?  It's bad enough that he has to worry about the idiot left, but threats and treason from his "own party"?   It's a despicable can of worms that has evolved there. 

[skeeter]

Then why did the GOP elitists/RINOs threaten Trump if he fired Sessions?  It's bad enough that he has to worry about the idiot left, but threats and treason from his "own party"?   It's a despicable can of worms that has evolved there.

Just another bit of evidence of the game being run on us by the two parties, which aren't really two parties at all.

[XenaLee]

Just another bit of evidence of the game being run on us by the two parties, which aren't really two parties at all.

Apparently so.   But.... imagine the frustration among the few GOPers that are NOT in agreement with or on board with the anti-Trump RINOs.

[corbe]

   My contention has always been that Sessions is a man of Integrity. He knows he met Russians as a member of the Armed Services Committee and he also knows he met them while on the Trump Campaign, but unlike Manafort, Stone,  Kushner and Don Jr., he knows what could be considered illegal and/or treasonous and didn't go there, IMHO. 
   Morale of this story, He's not stupid enough to stick his neck out for the above incompetents, Hence his recusal.

   It doesn't take away from the fact that while Trump needed a strong AG, he got another spineless GOP'er, his choice.

[Emjay]

We agree to disagree, yes?

We would do that except that I don't disagree with you.  You said it would be legal to fire Sessions but it would be politically disastrous.  What's not to agree ... that is a valid opinion.

The only caveat I would have is that we don't really know if it would be a political mistake until and unless he did it and we witnessed the fallout.

[corbe]

When Was The Last Time A President Fired An Attorney General? Donald Trump's Dismissing Sally Yates Raises Questions

ByHillary E. Crawford

Jan 30 2017

On Monday evening, President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she refused to comply with his executive orders on immigration and refugees. If you're thinking that Trump's most recent controversial move seems out of the ordinary, and even unprecedented, you're not wrong. Though there have been several instances of attorneys general resigning, it's quite rare for a president to actually fire one. Richard Nixon's turbulent presidency, in this case, should ring a bell.

In fact, some Twitter users are comparing Trump's own dismissal of Yates over the immigration and refugee order to Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre," a scenario during the Watergate crisis. In 1973, Nixon ordered then-Attorney General Eliot Richardson to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was assigned a significant role in the Watergate investigation that ultimately led to Nixon's resignation.

Richardson resigned after refusing to fire Cox. Not long after, Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus took over as the new acting AG, and when he refused the same action, he wasn't given the option to resign. Instead, Nixon fired him and found someone who would carry out his order to dismiss Cox, Solicitor General-turned-acting AG Robert Bork. Now, it seems as though new acting Attorney General Dana Boente will side with Trump on his immigration order.

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https://www.bustle.com/p/when-was-the-last-time-a-president-fired-attorney-general-donald-trumps-dismissing-sally-yates-raises-questions-34286

[corbe]

   It's not lost on me either, that in a parallel Universe out there somewhere, Sessions stayed on the Cruz Train and became his AG, of course instead of all this Russian crap and banging p0rn stars it would have been Goldman Sachs and assassination attempts in the immediate family.