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 t
he 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/