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In July 2017, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that if President Trump were to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions there will be holy hell to pay. Sessions is a rock solid conservative, Graham said, and Trumps efforts to marginalize and humiliate him are not going over well in the Senate. A lot can change in a year. On Thursday, Graham told reporters that the president is entitled to an attorney general he has faith in, and that he expects Trump to fire Sessions sooner rather than later. He didnt seem too troubled by the prospect, either, only cautioning the president to wait until after the midterms to axe the man preventing Trump from laying waste to the Witch Hunt.
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The presidents frustrations with Sessions hinge on the attorney generals decision to recuse himself from Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation into the Trump campaigns relationship with Russia. As the investigation has intensified, Trump has ramped up his campaign to marginalize and humiliate Sessions, ostensibly hoping that he will resign in shame. Most of the presidents attacks against Sessions have come via Twitter reportedly a new thread of the special counsels investigation but Trump recently aired his grievances to Ainsley Earhardt in an interview that aired Thursday morning on Fox News. The Dems are very strong at the Justice Department, Trump said. I put in an attorney general that never took control of the Justice Department. Jeff Sessions never took control of the Justice Department.
Sessions responded on Thursday with a statement defending himself and the law enforcement community, which the president has also attacked repeatedly as the special counsels investigation has intensified. The actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations, Sessions wrote.
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If Sessions were to be fired, Trump would install a loyalist who would either fire Mueller outright or severely undermine his ability to conduct the inquiry. The Russia investigation is currently being overseen by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who assumed control after Sessions recused himself in March 2017 following the revelation that he met with Russias ambassador to the United States prior to the election. A new attorney general would outrank Rosenstein and preside over the investigation in accordance with the presidents wishes.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/lindsey-graham-trump-fire-sessions-714975/
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Before Trump gets impeached. Its huge. They know Trump is sinking them.
demsocialist
(202 posts)that Sessions is gone by the weekend.
phylny
(8,380 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)It's not something you or I would hold against him but a conservative state like South Carolina might.
Just speculating.
a kennedy
(29,661 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,387 posts)That isnt a big deal around here obviously but for a republican in the south it is a political death sentence. They probably have photos or some other material that makes him extremely uncomfortable.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)book_worm
(15,951 posts)ultimately it would backfire and hurt Trump.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,492 posts)You know theres kompromat on him. Theyve got him by the short hair.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)They are hoping that they maintain control of Congress, then Trump can run apeshit if he wants to. We need to stop the fucking infighting and vote for the Democrat in every race, because if we don't we and the country are screwed.