With deepest regret we are nevertheless feeling compelled to chip in our two-cents’ worth on the latest “Trump tempest in a tea cup”…the NY Times story in which President Trump seems to diss Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Our thoughts in the proverbial nutshell; yours on this are cordially invited:
Michael Goodwin, writing in the NY Post has in our view, as concise and reasoned take on this latest “episode” in the attempted demolition of the Trump presidency.
Exposing the New York Times’ hypocrisy on Jeff Sessions
In his piece Goodwin does make the most needless point ever to be made…the NY Times’ and the media’s bias and hypocrisy are fully exposed, one more time, as truly historic in terms of its limitless boundaries and their weird willingness to have it exposed for all the world to see.
Our take is this:
a) Trump is justified in his annoyance at Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe.
b) Sessions was wrong in either having decided to recuse himself before accepting Trump’s nomination for AG, or in just telling Congress he had. If the former is true, he should have told Trump before accepting. If the latter is true, Sessions would be guilty of pandering to Congress to somehow save his own skin. We’re inclined to the former.
c) Trump was wrong or naive or both in allowing Rod Rosenstein to remain at the DOJ after he became president. He was also guilty of gross error in appointing Rosenstein as Deputy AG, thus putting him in line to take over the Russia matter when Sessions recused himself.
We’ve seen more than enough examples of the people Barack Obama chose or tolerated in his administration, including people initially chosen for high posts by previous administrations, such as Rosenstein. To our view, none have proven to be particularly honorable or trustworthy, or, for that matter loyal to the Constitution, to responsibilities of their office, or to anything but the progressive dream of an all powerful state and their personal aggrandizement. (see Comey, Mueller, L. Lynch, E. Holder, et al).
Note: Trump is likely to yet suffer consequences for retaining Obama holdovers like Richard Cordray, Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Director (infamous as Obama’s unconstitutional “recess appointment” to the NLRB) and the ‘so-likable’ John Koskinen, Obama’s proud selection to head the IRS. Both still sit, under the Trump administration, as ‘time bombs’ waiting to go off when thought likely to inflict the most damage to Trump as possible.
d) Trump will make another very serious mistake if he does not rectify his public rebuke of Sessions and demonstrate his confidence in him. Like Trump, Sessions made the mistake of taking advice from DOJ career bureaucrats, many loyal only to themselves. Their advice to Sessions to recuse himself had, in our opinion, only the aim of advancing the overthrow of the Trump administration.
Also in our view, Sessions is among the most supportive of Trump’s promises and agenda and has already proven to be a very effective, conscientious, legally respectful Attorney Generals. America hasn’t seen one like that in a long time.
As always, our readers’ take is invited.
DLH
Roger, What if Trump, by criticizing Sessions gives Sessions “street creds” with the press? Maybe Don and Jeff had a sit-down, and it’s all good between them. The press has to start liking Sessions if Trump doesn’t. Possible set-up?
hmmmm, evaluating