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If President Trump’s goal is to ensure that Jeff Sessions is the only attorney general he will ever have, then his latest tweet tirade makes perfect sense. Otherwise, the president’s call for an attorney general who factors Republican electoral prospects into exercises of prosecutorial discretion is a call for a noxious politicization of the Justice Department . . . . . . Unable to get over his ire at Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, yet unwilling to take the political heat that would result from firing him, the president is apparently engaged in an unseemly crusade to provoke the attorney general’s resignation. What he unleashed this past weekend — hitting Sessions for the prosecutions of two Republicans that, Trump complained, endanger GOP control of their seats — was even worse than the usual Twitter rant . . .. . . Trump’s reference to the “Jeff Sessions Justice Department,†as if a president were a disinterested spectator, is particularly lame. Sessions was appointed by the president, and — his recusal notwithstanding — he has aggressively pursued the Trump agenda. Hunter was charged with crimes by Adam Braverman, a career prosecutor named by Sessions in 2017 to serve as U.S. attorney in San Diego while Trump’s nominee awaits confirmation. Collins was charged by Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, who was appointed by . . . President Trump.This is hardly a “deep state†conspiracy. If Republicans want the “easy wins†that Trump says will be denied them by the prosecutions, might we suggest better candidates? At the very least, candidates for whom avoiding felony indictment is not too high a bar to clear . . .
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Topic: The President’s Shameful Attacks on His Attorney General (Read 313 times)
