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Bleacher Creature

(11,257 posts) Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:01 PM Jan 2018

It's a miracle and a fluke that we got Mueller.

It was literally Sessions, in a moment of weakness, deciding to follow some semblance of respect for the law by recusing himself.

Seriously, does anyone doubt that he would make a different decision if he were given a chance to do it again? Or that the media wouldn't give Trump or Sessions a pass if they simply held their ground and stonewalled any attempt to get to the bottom of the Russia stuff?

And without Mueller, the entirety of the investigation would fall to the media and to Congressional Democrats. I don't have a ton of faith in the former, and the latter are unfortunately shut out of power.

It sends a chill down my spine thinking about how different things might have turned out, and there's still a long way to go.

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It's a miracle and a fluke that we got Mueller. (Original Post) Bleacher Creature Jan 2018 OP

Agreed, except I don't thik it was a moment of weakness panader0 Jan 2018 #1

Good point. Bleacher Creature Jan 2018 #4

I was thinking the same thing MaryMagdaline Jan 2018 #2

Precisely. And Sessions recusal still infuriates #45... VOX Jan 2018 #3

Thanks to Al Franken JI7 Jan 2018 #5

panader0

(25,816 posts)

1. Agreed, except I don't thik it was a moment of weakness

Reply to Bleacher Creature (Original post)

Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:06 PM

Jan 2018

on Sessions part. He was deep in it already. He was dodging.

Bleacher Creature

(11,257 posts)

4. Good point.

Reply to panader0 (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:27 PM

Jan 2018

Sessions definitely was deep into it at the time, but I think he misread the potential consequences. For someone like Trump, you can have all the incriminating evidence there is, and he'll just continue to deny everything and act like nothing has happened. For him, anything short of an arrest warrant and handcuffs means another day that he's gotten away with it.

THAT'S what freaks me out. Sessions could have taken that path, and it very well may have worked. Yes, he'd have a "cloud" over him, but a cloud isn't going to take down Trump, Flynn, Manafort, Kushner, etc.