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 07/20/2017

Pro-Trump Voices Lay The Groundwork For Trump To Clean House At DOJ

Some of President Trump’s strongest supporters in the media have lost faith in Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Trump tore into Sessions in an interview with The New York Times Wednesday, expressing regret for choosing him as attorney general. The White House said on Thursday that Trump still has confidence in Sessions, but noted that firing Sessions would be within Trump’s authority as president.

While the White House claims that Trump has confidence in Sessions, some of the loudest pro-Trump voices are openly turning on Sessions.

“I know that Sessions does not have the confidence of the President. He should resign,” longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone told a Washingtonian writer on Wednesday.

Trump should fire Sessions and appoint [Texas Sen. Ted] Cruz Attorney General,” said GotNews writer Chuck Johnson in a Facebook post Thursday morning. “Cruz is pro-Constitution and an order of magnitude smarter than Sessions.”

Right-wing blogger Mike Cernovich, whose work Donald Trump Jr. has publicly praised, blasted Sessions as “out of touch,” adding that the attorney general “has to go.”

New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin was calling on Trump to fire Sessions even before the NYT interview.

“Instead of firing the special counsel, which would serve as a rallying cry to the left and alienate some Republicans, Trump should wage a smart campaign to fight Mueller,” Goodwin wrote on Monday. “He can begin by firing two other people — Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein.”

http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/20/pro-trump-pundits-sour-on-sessions/

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Re: Pro-Trump Voices Lay The Groundwork For Trump To Fire Jeff Sessions
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2017, 06:28:05 AM »
Fox News host Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh stopped short of saying Sessions should resign or be fired but both of them, like Trump, appear to have soured on Sessions.

Hannity criticized Sessions on his radio show Wednesday for not reopening the investigation into former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s email server.

“I don’t know where Jeff Sessions is, maybe something’s happening that we don’t know about,” Hannity said. He added: “I’m like, OK, we have a new attorney general, statute of limitations have not gone anywhere, why isn’t this woman being investigated?”

Radio host Rush Limbaugh similarly appeared to side with Trump over Sessions on Thursday.

“And this recusal just blindsided [Trump]. I’ll tell you why. I think Trump believed, since Sessions was so willing in the Senate to go against amnesty and to go against comprehensive immigration reform, I am convinced that Trump thought that Sessions was a fighter just like Trump sees himself. And then when Sessions recused, Trump was surprised,” Limbaugh said.

“And if I were in Trump’s shoes I would be so livid about [the Russia investigation] I wouldn’t be able to contain myself the way he is. It is that absurd,” Limbaugh added. “This is totally ridiculous.”

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/07/20/my-analysis-of-trumps-new-york-times-interview/


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Re: Pro-Trump Voices Lay The Groundwork For Trump To Fire Jeff Sessions
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2017, 06:30:14 AM »
White House: Trump ‘Has Confidence’ in Sessions

Sessions was legally proper to recuse, but the result has been the ever-burgeoning special counsel, said today to be investigating Trump financial dealings as well (which again, shouldn’t be leaked)/

Via Free Beacon:

    President Donald Trump “has confidence” in Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the White House said Thursday, one day after Trump suggested that he should have picked someone else to lead the Department of Justice.

    The Associated Press on Thursday afternoon reported the White House statement, which sought to allay a media uproar that followed comments Trump made to the New York Times.

    Trump told the Times in an interview published Wednesday that he would not have appointed Sessions had he known that the attorney general would recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/trump-confidence-sessions/

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Re: Pro-Trump Voices Lay The Groundwork For Trump To Fire Jeff Sessions
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2017, 06:39:14 AM »
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions

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Re: Pro-Trump Voices Lay The Groundwork For Trump To Fire Jeff Sessions
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2017, 10:43:27 AM »
I have heard that the attacks on AG Sessions are to drive some space between him and President Trump--that way, when Sessions goes after a certain Democratic former senator and Secretary of State, it won't be directly attributable to President Trump . . . :whistling:
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