Donald and the attorney general who won't cave—yet

Poor Donald. He is very upset with his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions. Sessions refuses to do what Donald wants him to do: break the law. Or at least bend it so that the GOP can retain its hold on two House seats.

Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff......

....The Democrats, none of whom voted for Jeff Sessions, must love him now. Same thing with Lyin’ James Comey. The Dems all hated him, wanted him out, thought he was disgusting - UNTIL I FIRED HIM! Immediately he became a wonderful man, a saint like figure in fact. Really sick!

According to Bob Woodward’s book, Fear: Trump in the White House, Donald has regretted appointing Sessions ever since the attorney general recused himself from the Russia investigation. About an interview that Donald gave to the New York Times on July 19, 2017, Woodward writes:

He said he never would have appointed Sessions if he had known he would recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation. “Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair—and that’s a mild word—to the president.”

Trump was still upset three days later when he discussed his AG with Reince Priebus aboard Marine One on the way to Norfolk, Virginia. He compared Sessions to his predecessor Eric Holder:

Trump said he had always admired Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder. Though he disagreed with their policies, of course, Holder had stuck with Obama no matter what came up or whatever the controversy for eight years. There had been no recusals and no dodging the political crossfire. Holder had been willing to take the hit for his president.

“Jeff isn’t a guy that, through thick and thin, is willing to stick with me,” he said.

Aside from the fact that President Obama never colluded with a foreign power or violated the Constitution during his eight years as president, giving AG Holder no need to recuse, Donald’s rant displays his terrible anger and disappointment with the current attorney general. After all, he had always been able to get state attorneys general to go along with his plans, either through campaign donations, bullying, or threats.