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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAttorney General Jeff Sessions suggested he could resign amid rising tension with President Trump
Source: ABC
As the White House braces for former FBI Director James Comeys testimony Thursday, sources tell ABC News the relationship between President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has become so tense that Sessions at one point recently even suggested he could resign.
The friction between the two men stems from the attorney general's abrupt decision in March to recuse himself from anything related to the Russia investigation -- a decision the president only learned about minutes before Sessions announced it publicly. Multiple sources say the recusal is one of the top disappointments of his presidency so far and one the president has remained fixated on.
Trumps anger over the recusal has not diminished with time. Two sources close to the president say he has lashed out repeatedly at the attorney general in private meetings, blaming the recusal for the expansion of the Russia investigation, now overseen by Special Counsel and former FBI Director Robert Mueller.
But sources say the frustration runs both ways, prompting the resignation offer from Sessions.
More: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-suggested-resign-amid-rising/story?id=47875090&cid=social_twitter_abcnp
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)I'm flabbergasted.
Xolodno
(6,395 posts)They might take that as a challenge!
BumRushDaShow
(129,130 posts)northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)As in bloated narcissistic lying orange cow?
BumRushDaShow
(129,130 posts)(and the video owner actually threw up an apology text window for that error )
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)At least they caught it, although the error pertaining to Trump is highly appropriate.
Marthe48
(16,975 posts)Napoleon the 14th. There was a publicity stunt keeping the identity of the performer secret. The album was hilarious. And really, so fitting for trump.
BumRushDaShow
(129,130 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)I used to sneak in their room and play their records, became a DJ when I was 12. That song really creeped me out, but I would play it and flip the 45 over and play the song on the other side.
I bet my family in November after the election, that the impeachment process would start in July. I hope I am right! I also hope the Trump administration breaks the record of the Reagan administration in number of officials convicted or pled guilty! It would be the most magnificent, amazing, wonderful, and Biglyiest ratings bonanza of all time!
Marthe48
(16,975 posts)and I hope so, too. With all my heart!
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Pretty heady stuff back in the day
kimbutgar
(21,164 posts)I would be surprised if anyone wants to take over these jobs in the future. The chump ship is sinking and taking on water. Couldn't happen to a better person. Bye bye Sessions.
Just shows how morally bankrupt and hopeless tRump is if an old, bigoted stalwart like Sessions would prefer to be unemployed rather than work for tRump.
MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)do the country a favor. I'm almost certain you'll have a lobbying job just waiting for you!
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)Marthe48
(16,975 posts)that is funny!
Gothmog
(145,339 posts)bresue
(1,007 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)dalton99a
(81,526 posts)malaise
(269,063 posts)and I am freaking lovin' this.
Resign you racist piece if shit
Hi Liz Warren
Boomerproud
(7,955 posts)There's a nice book deal waiting for you.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Until he actually quits.
XRubicon
(2,212 posts)and would be free to meddle in the investigation - free to fire Mueller.
I hope he stays.
ETA: for now...
BumRushDaShow
(129,130 posts)Everyone knows what happened when Nixon finally found a sucker (Bork) to fire Archibald Cox. They may be too stupid to consider history, given he already fired Comey and is taking a big hit for it, so that might not happen - at least right away....
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Friday, the day Sessions recused himself? He was on his way to merde-a-lago, and there were some heated-looking conversations and hand waving and such.
Guess the dumbass never quite - you know, "let it go"!
on edit : yeah, he was giving bannon and rinse hell
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/06/video-shows-trumps-reported-tirade-against-bannon-and-priebus/21874555/
(seems like this was seven years ago, eh?)
JenniferJuniper
(4,512 posts)dalton99a
(81,526 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Sarah Kendzior has this right: she argues that palace intrigue narratives are part and parcel of authoritarian states. Notice that for all the "Trump is mad at X" stories, nothing has really changed - none of the supposed feuds ever lead to anything. It's all reality teevee bullshit.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Who never got scoops before. Noticed one to NY Post and then I think it was CBS- both sounded like WH spin on things. The NY Post printer something they shopped to WaPo who said they declined to publish it because they didn't want to be described as close to Kushner. But the NY Post published it without describing the source that way.
Shenanigans abound.
IronLionZion
(45,462 posts)Chris Christie got screwed out of a cabinet post. Prominent people have turned down positions when offered: Admiral Harward, Monica Crowley, and others.
And during the campaign they lost 2 campaign managers.
But most of the people who got fired or left on their own were Obama appointees.
struggle4progress
(118,296 posts)Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)My weed might still be legal then.
napi21
(45,806 posts)be this easy? WOW! I'm sure sure hoping.
benld74
(9,904 posts)orangecrush
(19,574 posts)And spills the beans on the whole bunch.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Paladin
(28,265 posts)But that's underestimating trump's malignant power to make practically anything slide downhill. If there's a worse AG candidate than Sessions, trump will find that individual and do his best to inflict that individual on us.
DangerousRhythm
(2,916 posts)...Ghouliani?
Paladin
(28,265 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)You racist POS!
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)YCHDT
(962 posts)... doesn't want to be around it.
delisen
(6,044 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)No one would agree to replace him.
I guess Trump could temporarily appoint Jared, but then who would bring peace to the Middle East, find waste in government and manage the relationship with Mexico?
George II
(67,782 posts)bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)still_one
(92,242 posts)from this before everything starts falling apart?
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I'm betting he'd get thru the GOP Senate...
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Grammy23
(5,810 posts)Have you talked to anyone in the Witness Protection Program?
Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... "yes, please ... I'd like to get off, now .... ah, this is my stop .... here ...please let me off." ...
... "GET ME OFF THIS GOD DAMNED DOOMED SHIP OF STATE BEFORE IT CRASHES ..." ...
... "whatever's left of my reputa ... no ... my caree ... no ... JUST LET ME OFF!!!" ...
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)And Trump would have nothing to fear about an expanded Russia investigation if he wasn't GUILTY of the crime.
Like always, he projects his own missteps onto a subordinate, who in this case was also likely a co-conspirator.
May they both burn in Hell.
red dog 1
(27,820 posts)So if Sessions does quit, who will Drumpf replace him with?
(Attorney General Rudolph Giuliani?)
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)Nixon was terrified when the protesters where outside the White House.
"Goddammit Henry! They're coming to get us!"
JHB
(37,161 posts)calimary
(81,323 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)This may only be palace intrigue, but Dump has been publicly hitting on him ever since he recused himself--sort of. He did help with the Comey firing, but apparently that wasn't enough for Dump.
Poor, poor Jeffy. All that sucking up and for what?
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)TomSlick
(11,100 posts)in a moment of prophetic insight. I'll believe it when I see it.
Beauregard has resigned his Senate seat. If he resigns as AG, that would not be a good cap on his political carrier. He may have threatened to resign but only to blow smoke at Trump.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)PatrickforO
(14,578 posts)Geez.
Now if we could just get rid of the rest of them...
bucolic_frolic
(43,196 posts)not willing to go to the mat for the boss who expects everyone to
do anything and everything to make himself look good
ecstatic
(32,712 posts)Isn't he their boss?
Phentex
(16,334 posts)I hope he crawls under a rock.