The Briefing Room
General Category => Elections 2020 => Topic started by: corbe on March 04, 2020, 04:53:00 pm
-
Trump criticizes Sessions after Alabama Senate primary heads to a runoff
By Morgan Chalfant - 03/04/20 08:11 AM EST
President Trump criticized Republican Alabama Senate candidate Jeff Sessions early Wednesday, asserting that his former attorney general didn’t win the state's GOP primary outright because of what Trump described as Sessions's lack of “wisdom or courage†in his handling of the Russia investigation.
“This is what happens to someone who loyally gets appointed Attorney General of the United States & then doesn’t have the wisdom or courage to stare down & end the phony Russia Witch Hunt,†Trump tweeted, just hours after news broke that Tuesday’s Senate primary in Alabama would advance to a runoff between Sessions and former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville.
“Recuses himself on FIRST DAY in office, and the Mueller Scam begins!†Trump added.
<..snip..>
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/485879-trump-criticizes-sessions-after-alabama-senate-primary-heads-to-a (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/485879-trump-criticizes-sessions-after-alabama-senate-primary-heads-to-a)
-
What evah. *****rollingeyes*****
-
Trump is such an ass. Let it go, man.
-
Obviously, he should have picked differently for AG.... but who ever thought Sessions would have bowed so easily? Still, Sessions was being honest for himself but he bent over backwards in doing so, he was too sensitive. Too ethical.
Should have been Chris Christie:
(https://2a9h4ym6yis3rbxe73gyzw48-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/ABC_41919_ChrisChristie-1.jpg)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/christie-warned-trump-russia-investigation/story?id=60674276
As He says at the video above, Trump stole some of Chris' shtick.
-
I don't think Sessions cares to win. I think he was running to stop Moore.
-
Mueller totally exonerated Trump. Sessions' recusal may have given Mueller far more latitude than warranted, but it also forestalled any possible criticism of the legitimacy of the investigation or its findings. At the time the recusal was a source of frustration but at this point I just don't see what can be gained by continuing to harp on it.
-
I don't think Sessions cares to win. I think he was running to stop Moore.
I think Moore may have stopped himself. Maybe some voters still suspect of him of that MeToo nonsense, but I think Moore's problem is that he's just not that appealing of a candidate. He's an odd duck and while being "off" might help some candidates, it just doesn't go over so well for others.
I defended the guy when all those accusations started, but if I lived in Alabama, I wouldn't vote for him.