CHUCK TODD: If you could have one do over as president, what would it be?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, it would be personnel.
CHUCK TODD: Who is it?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I would say if I had one do over, it would be, I would not have appointed Jeff Sessions to be attorney general. That would be my one —
CHUCK TODD: That’s your, in your mind, that’s your worst mistake?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah, that was the biggest mistake.
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Treehouse Poet Laureate
“PDJT shoots and he scores………….again”
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Many, many, apologies are due to Howie.
Howie called this from the start and was attacked relentlessly on these pages.
Take care Howie, wherever you are.
Your friend,
Gunny
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Ditto, Gunny.
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Amen to this. A few saw Sessions for what he was (or more precisely, for what he was not) quite rapidly; the CTH comments section was NOT friendly to them.
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Perfect way to parry a gotcha q
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Yah, trust the p….. (sound of needle dragging across a record)
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They can’t say all that spying the Zero did didn’t pay off. I wonder what they have on Sessions?
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They have every thing on every person in power but Trump it seems. LOL
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Trump presents himself “flaws and all.” He can’t be outed because he’s already out, transparent, honest, straightforward.
The rest all have something to hide, whether from their families, their constituents, or the law.
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Trump may be the cleanest one of all as shocking as that sounds. If they had anything it would be leaked within minutes.
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My number one guess is a gay encounter.
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I don’t think there’s a name for a honey trap with a dude.
.. Perhaps it should be called a ‘session’.
(I’ll be here all week folks)
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Fudge Pot?
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That’s chocolate fondue. lol
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ROTFL : )
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Prove Trump wrong here.
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Surely there’s a Sessions hardcase left here to prove Trump wrong:-(
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I’m a VSGPDJT hardcase. I believed at the time and I still believe AG Sessions was doing something he wanted done quietly, and I believe when it’s time we’ll find out what that was.
Until then PDJT will continue to let the Deep State believe whatever they wish.
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I agree as a fellow VSGPDT hardcase.
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Mmmm-huh. It was so quiet not even Sessions knew. 😂
Look, The Elf on the Shelf was a yuge disappointment at best and a colossal impediment at worst.
Whatever the truth is behind Jeff Sessions, we’ll probably never know.
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IMO Occam’s razor will eventually show you your error!
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I think they’re all gone now.
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Obviously!!! AG Sessions was not only not up to the job but because he had been an important part of the campaign, DeepState was able to neuter him by making him a subject of the investigation as well.
Imagine where we would be had AG Barr been AG from the beginning!
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albertus, what has always puzzled me is how many senators, etc., have you ever seen accompanying a presidential candidate on the campaign trail? I had thought on occasion, especially when Mulehead was appointed SC, Sessions may have been a trojan horse. I don’t believe we will ever know.
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If that is the case eventually we will know. I think he was just outmaneuvered by the deep state.
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This generation never will, but history will reveal the truth. I too was enthusiastic for Sessions, up ’til his recusal when I realized he was a plant/SwampRat playing the Swamp Rat game.
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The piece of the puzzle that I cannot put together is where Stephen Miller fits in. Miller was Sessions’ aide and as such I have always trusted Miller without waiver.
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Go back to that Rally in Mobile…….Sessions was there because it was his town….watch as Trump gives him the MAGA hat ….Sessions was so reluctant to put it on but he did out of courtesy. If Sessions was a plant then it came after that rally when the Repulicons convinced him ti would be an added benefit so that they could keep an eye on Trump even though they thought he couldn’t win…but just in case Sessions would be insurance. Don’t believe Sessions is a coup plotter or they have the goods on him…just believe he is one naive fool who had no idea he was surrounded by crooks.
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Sessions was not up to the job simply because of his senatorial background. All any senator knows how to do is posture before the camera and echo whatever talking points his staff gives him. Almost none of them have any executive experience on how to run an organization — that’s why they make lousy appointments as head of a federal Department. They then get captured by their Department’s (long-serving) staff who maintain the status quo. That’s why nothing changes in D.C.
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You can bet Obama would’ve gotten a softball question such as “Do you prefer tea or coffee in the mornings?”
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“What has enchanted you most about this job?”
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Hahaha!
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Mr. President Obama, can you explain why you are so good at your job?
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Every one of those questions is absolutely spot on; entire interviews with Obama were conducted like that.
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I don’t believe the media would have forced Obama to commit to such a stark a divisive position as coffee OR tea. The question would have been posed, “Coffee and tea. Is America ready? Or is there still an undercurrent of racism?”
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Don’t you wonder WHY the President would give Chuck Todd five seconds of his time? Todd is right up there with Chris Wallace on my Scum-Bucket List.
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He’s not intimidated by the press.
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PDJT is way ahead of these crap weasels. They are limited by their Lefty handlers to go for gotcha questions and POTUS has a whole life of experience to fall back on in answering them. Ever notice how the Left shuns the opposition and Trump welcomes them? He oozes class while they ooze only the last 3 letters of class.
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God Bless you, Pa hermit. I needed to be reminded of that today. Thank you!
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Agreed. Can’t bear to watch either of them regardless of who they are “interviewing”.
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Because Fox has been sucking hind teat and Wallace is globalist commie scum and Trump wanted to be on a Sunday show. This was a big FU to Wallace and Fox and not an endorsement of Todd.
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I agree with your last comment. This was the Pres airing his message-not an endorsement of Todd.
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Fox is finally being exposed for what it is.
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I tend to agree. PDJT chooses his “battles” and he does not choose Chrissy. Remember when MeAgain complained she could not get Candidate Trump and was jealous of Hannity.
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BRAVO, Hoosler!
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Naw, Chrissy is much worse than F Chuck Todd. At least you know where F Chuck Todd stands (NBC, Meet the Depressed).
Chrissy is part of the Fake News Network (FNN). Total betrayal.
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MelH,
I tend to think our VSG is making a brilliant play for ‘tweeners’.
ABC,NBC,PBS,MSNBC,NPR,Etc.Viewership = LeftyLoons [Never Trumpers]
Disengaged, non-political, work/family/soccer/class = Tweeners [Believes what they’re told]
Political junkies, CTH, Amer.Thinker,etc. (us) = Right minded [President Trump to the end!]
LeftyLoons will NEVER vote for VSGPOTUSTrump, even if it saved children, puppies, and the entire planet! (And he’s actually doing just that.)
Right Minded? We don’t need to ever see 1 more thing and we will be at the polls come Hell or high water, voting for our ‘One & Only’ VSG!
Tweeners? They might catch Chicky Todd asking asinine questions and say, “Hey, this President Trump guy is a LOT smarter than I’ve been led to believe, and he makes sense! I might not tell my friends or family…but when I get in the voting booth…
TWEENERS!!!
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He has a message to get across. Sometimes it’s misinformation.
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Trump wants access to the press, dies not fear them, and actually will go on offensive inside their lair. Avoiding them just affords them the opportunity to say whatever they want unchallenged.
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And catering to them affords them the opportunity to twist once again what he says.
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Trump is going after new voters. He’s going after the Dems who are on the verge of walking away from the Dem party.
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I hope you are right!
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Inclusion. Despite what they claim, POTUS wants to bring all aboard the Trump train. So he “goes where the sinners are,” so to speak. He wants everyone to hear his message, even Chump Todd viewers.
Contrast with Obama, who wrote off half the population and made no outreach effort. He wouldn’t dream of going on Hannity because he despised Hannity viewers and didn’t want them on his side.
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Now that the President has said it on national tv, I hope the Session defenders will finally accept the truth.
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Agreed! But he’s said this many times before too.
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Aint it the truth. I cannot believe the tenacity with which Sessions is defended when we have every bit of evidence that at best he was inept and a coward, and at worst he was in on it from the beginning. There is no up side for the mendacious role Sessions played. He could have resigned – and that damns him eternally in my mind.
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Even better, he could’ve refused the job in the first place, since he knew in advance he wasn’t going to be able to do the most important part of it!
But instead, he begged for and demanded to be Attorney General and nothing but Attorney General. Very suspicious. He might have made a good Secretary of Homeland Security… but then he wouldn’t have been able to protect Rosenstein and Mueller.
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His disappearance after he resigned tells you who he really was – a traitor.
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Sessions is institutionalized……be that republican conservative or DOJ……he has been in DC so long his priorities are all screwed up…..having said this …..he is not a coup plotter or does he know he was surrounded by people who were traitors to the country. Nor do I believe they had something on him. To me ….like a lot of people in this country…..it will take considerable evidence for him to believe that there were people surrounding him that are criminals…..his mind just never went there. He believed his long time friends that told him Trump could be a danger to all this country and conservatives hold dear,,,,which I believe is the worse case scenario with Sessions. I know he must be ashamed at this point if following whats going on…..and embarrassed.
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Kat,
I’ll repeat something I said long ago about Sessions. Given how much his deliberate actions facilitated the attempted coup, and how little loyalty or forbearance he showed President Trump despite the fact there was never any proof linking Trump or his organization to a crime, it is very hard for me to see Sessions in any other light than that of a traitor to his country. I don’t imagine he can possibly look President Trump in the face; I actually wonder how he manages to face himself in the mirror in the morning.
Dante would place Sessions in the ninth circle of Hell.
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He is a Southern Gentleman—-he was NOT a plant. He was too naive for such a big job and b/c he worked om the campaign he was a sitting duck to have the deep state put him under investigation immediately. POTUS gave him the job to reward a loyal supporter.
All this was even BEFORE VSG realized how far the cabal would go to try to bring down his presidency. Had he anticipated it all, his AG choice would have been likely different because of Sessions vulnerability by working on the campaign
POTUS SAID NOTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT SESSIONS PERSONALLY. The choice was bad situationally.
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No… he was a coward
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Nope he was a traitor by playing possum because they had the goods on him.
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Might I suggest you read CTH articles or at least, President Trump’s very tweets before making such a claim as “POTUS SAID NOTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT SESSIONS PERSONALLY” :
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/28/president-trump-tweets-about-fisa-abuse-ag-jeff-sessions-responds/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/11/blunt-honesty-president-trump-highlights-lack-of-reform-within-doj-and-fbi/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/11/07/jeff-sessions-resignation/
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Well, I will. Sessions was an arrogant, self-righteous, incompetent, boob who sat back and watched the Deep State coup against our President. A true Benedict Arnold! Is that personal enough.
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Session’s should have resigned a few weeks after recusing himself. Was it stupidity or vanity that made him stay on for so long
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Jeff Sessions will go down in post American history as the most monumental rat bastard traitor that ever lived
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thank goodness his defenders are largely no longer here insulting us
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Not on this thread anyway. They still pop up like prairie dogs when they don’t have to go directly against what PDJT is saying.
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You’ve noticed that too, eh? The “eat crow” crowd, I think of them as.
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It may be a double bluff 😉
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If Jeff Sessions had any sense of decency or self respect, he should have voluntarily resigned as soon as he made the decision to recuse himself from handling the Mueller farce.
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Accept that Trump thinks Sessions was his worst decision? Accept what exactly?
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“Accept what exactly”..
Um, what you wrote in your first sentence??!
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“Accept what exactly”? Accept just what the President said in his interview that Sessions was his worst decision. He made it perfectly clear.
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The differences between OTA “Meet the Press” broadcast and the full unedited version is striking.
What you look for is what hit the cutting room floor.
Without reading the transcript while watching the video, too much over talking occurs.
Of course, PDJT can handle that “New York City” style of conversation.
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:
My answer last week was both. I said both. I’d do both. Except they didn’t put it on. And when they did put it on people understood. But they didn’t put it on because they put a different segment on. So they ask me a question. But when I said, “Yeah, I’d do both,” people saw that in the last version of it because the thing played like all weekend and on Friday. So it’s just more fake news. Chuck, there’s so much fake news. It would be so good if —
CHUCK TODD:
That’s why I’m interviewing you one-on-one —
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:
That’s fine. That’s why I like —
CHUCK TODD:
Let me ask you this.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:
That’s why I like doing —
CHUCK TODD:
Do you think you’ve been —
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:
But I like live interviews better, you know why? Because you can’t cut the answers.
CHUCK TODD:
Guess what? I’m not — You’re going to enjoy the fact that I’m not going to over-edit this interview. That I promise you.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:
Ok. Good.
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“over” edit? That means there will be plenty edits
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Over edit? Just what they think makes the President look good.
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Yes, Sessions was a big mistake, understandable tho he talked the talk, until he was questioned and his reputation was good, unfortunately Sessions reputation was bigger than him. I hope Barr is better and there are signs he will be
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I think the President’s response – that Sessions was his biggest mistake – just killed any chance that Sessions will be elected ever again.
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I hope so there are more than enough moral cowards in politics
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I hope not as he would be better than Roy Moore. Sessions was a decent senator. The appointment of Sessions as AG was POTUS’s mistake, as he points out, and I’m sure it was made for two reasons: 1) he appreciated Sessions’ early and stalwart support when no one else in DC and politics was supportive and 2) POTUS didn’t ask Sessions the right questions before he decided to appoint him as AG, basically because of his own naivete about a lot of things DC.
If one mystery ever gets solved in this whole mess, I hope it’s the mystery of Sessions. Sometimes a man or woman’s behavior in a certain instance does NOT match the behavior of a lifetime. That seems to be the case here. Okay, so Sessions recused himself. Naive mistake or simply a big mistake, but in either case it doesn’t explain WHY the hell an otherwise honorable man stayed as long as he did while Trump twisted in the wind.
There is still so much that doesn’t make sense.
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He submitted his resignation when he recused. POTUS did not accept it. He still did much good work on child trafficking and immigration. AND he had to sign off on moving bad DOJ out AND defending POTUS’ initial travel ban and took DAPA to court successfully
Detractors need to give credit where it is due. All things are NOT GOOD/BAD or BLACK/WHITE. Only small minds think that way.
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I completely agree.. Without Sessions no Mueller
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No Mueller, no Evil Weismann. … but the swamp would have found another Cretin.
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Jeff sessions fooled us all.
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Yep. It’s too bad PDT didn’t fire him when he should have. It would have stopped a lot of garbage throwing.
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When he should have? You must not remember that the R Senate very plainly said that they would not approve another AG, leaving RR in charge. President Trump had no choice.
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I remember what happened when he DID fire him. RR didn’t get the job. When PDT brought it to Twitter is when.
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He was never REQUIRED to move RR up.
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Hmmm. When Sessions was let go Trump put Whitaker in his place. Did Trump not understand that he could do that back in 2017?
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Grassley has consistently displayed a wide hate Trump streak. Iowa and Grassley likes them some of the cheap southern labor, ethanol and unfettered trade with China.
USA and POTUS Trump can get in line.
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Grassley handled the Christine Blasey debacle very well. Disposed of her handily. Kavanaugh was confirmed. Big win for Trump.
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Grassley did not handle the Kav debacle well. In fact, he threw Kav to the wolves with the show trial in the Senate.
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I’m glad we are now all eyes-open on this.
The “eat crow”/”game over” period with various Sessionista commentators attempting to shut down anyone pointing out that Jeff was *not* on board with MAGA in any way, shape or form (and indeed, was enabling and protecting those harassing PDJT, his family, and his circle) was the most painful for TCTH in recent memory.
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Some were likely only mistaken, stubborn, and foolish but some particularly strident ones, such as the fake patriot “forgodandcountry” must have been Deep State plants.
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I agree rsmith 👍
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Yes, “forgodandcountry” was among the worst. But he got a lot of “likes”.
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Christopher Wray might be a close second as far as mistakes go…
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Agree. Never understood appointing yet another ‘company man’ to lead the FBI. I would have advised PDJT to go find a trusted outsider, with instructions to clean house.
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My Waterloo was the Bannon / Judge Moore debacle. I tried to warn politely, albeit insistently, that the seat would be lost, and I was banned from the threads for one year.
I did feel somewhat vindicated when my fears were later borne out, but now I am reluctant to challenge the conventional wisdom, lest I be silenced again. Censorship does mute the conversation, like the sound of one hand clapping.
VSGPDJT entertains differing viewpoints, as with Bolton and Iran, weighing all options before him to make an informed decision. I wish all treepers were as open-minded and pragmatic as he.
The bullying and intimidation greatly diminishes the threads. We should try to do better, as we have a Constitutional Republic to save.
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Not sure how my response got way down here, as I was replying to those discussing how the Sessions apologists were dominating the threads.
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What should have been said early in the interview:
“Chuck, I don’t like being interrupted when I am speaking in answer to your questions. Another interruption designed to fragment, obscure, or twist my answer, and this interview is over. Is that clear?”
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Dame thing to George Stephanopoulos. And others.
The same liberal hacks let Obama drone on for 4, 5, 6 minutes with no interruption.
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I somewhat agree but for the part that it would be edited and skewed to turn it into some new “trump rages at media” narrative.
The admiration I feel for President Trump is sky high. He knows that he’ll be baited relentlessly and refuses to engage. He makes frustrating Big Media looks effortless- like swatting away a pesky fly.
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The Sessions mistake could have been and should have been easily corrected ….. except that the Republicans in the Senate publicly announced that they would not even consider confirming a replacement for Sessions if Trump fired him. And they also strongly hinted that such a firing would make them inclined to vote to convict Trump if the House impeached him.
The Senate Republicans are directly responsible for a great many of the problems Trump has suffered. They are certainly directly responsible for the entire Mueller Abomination. It’s long past time that they were held responsible for their conduct by the voters.
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^^^this^^^100% along with Jeff’s need to be a choirboy.
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The mistake was SESSIONS not telling President Trump he would recuse. Sessions set up Trump it appears. Those of us who tried to warn on sessions were barked down here.
Some even like body language expert Mandy (bombards body language) were believers in Sessions. She claimed that he had a big secret, that is most likely correct.
She believed the tells she read from his appearances revealed a secret from a hidden agenda that was positive for Trump.
That was a personal choice in my opinion. Sessions did have tells he had a secret. It was the one that made him a co-conspirator it appears.., note I am not saying she was wrong in her reading, it was a personal side I believe, she wanted to believe he was playing possum.
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We could have worked with an interim AG.
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The interm AG would have been Rod Rosenstein … who was in fact the acting AG for two years once Sessions recused himself.
The problem was that the Senate, including the great majority of its Republican members, were strongly committed to supporting and defending the Mueller “investigation”. Once they made that position clear, Trump’s hands were tied.
The whole point of the bogus ‘investigation’ was to place Trump in a no-win situation. If he fired Sessions and Rosenstein, Congress would remove him from office. if he did not fire them but allowed Mueller to rampage unchecked, Mueller would do immense damage to his ability to govern and to his reelection chances for 2020.
The blame here rests entirely with the Senate Republicans, all of whom supported the coup attempt.
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Except the interim AG was NOT RR.
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By pre-arranged agreement with the GOP Senate, Sessions stepped down after the November 2016 elections. At that point the anti-Trump baton could be passed on to the Democrat-riun House.
After that Rosenstein continued to run the Mueller operation, not the man who was officially the ‘interm AG’. It was not until Barr was confirmed as AG that the Mueller operation was finally wound down.
There was no possible way for President Trump to shut down Muellers criminal activity as long as a united Congress was supporting Mueller. And there is no getting away from it .. Congress was united in its support of Mueller and opposition to Trump.
if the GOP Senate was actually on Trump’s side, he could have had Barr (or somebody like Barr) as AG back in the summer of 2017. But they have gone to extravagant lengths to make their hostility towards Trump clear. Unfortunately much of the GOP base has gone to equally extravagant lengths to not notice what is staring them in the face … that their elected Representatives and Senators are playing for the opposing team.
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Agree 100% John55. The Democrats, even with the eneMedia, could not have taken the Muh Russia / Obstruction BS anywhere near as far as they have, had the Republican leadership (Ryan, McConnell et al) been honest and not so far in the pockets of the Globalists.
Small edits: Sessions stepped down after the November 2018 midterm elections.
(Pretty sure that’s what you intended).
“Congress was united in its support of Mueller and opposition to Trump…” Yes—-except for Nunes, Gaetz, Jordan and made a half dozen others who saw through the Collusion manure early on.
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..Yet NONE of these RepubliCON senators had permitted Trump to make his recess appointments, his *only* opportunity to straighten out his cabinet and rid himself of the Brutuses.
Not a one, when just one of these CONgressmen standing with their POTUS would have been THE game changer.
I agree 100% with John55. We are blind to the enormity of the traitors within our own party who deliberately lost the House to impeach Trump. They are all traitors to MAGA, to the President and to our Constitutional Republic, without which we are no longer a nation of free people.
There will always be one or two “pressure valves” who pretend to be one of us, but they only release hot air, just like FOX news. Pretenders all.
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John55 is probably right. Republicans are Democrat moles. They need cover so cant be overt hence their undercover underming of POTUS. They and their comrade Democrats know if Repub voters catch on its curtains for their deception
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Yep. That’s why Sundance constantly refers to the anti-Trump Republicans as the Uniparty. They are DC Swamp / Establishment along with many of the long term incumbent Democrats. They’re all solely dedicated to preserving every bit of profit and power from the corruption and graft in which they have long participated.
PDJT represents an existential threat to their tax-dollar sucking lifestyles – thats the only explanation needed. “There are trillions at stake.”
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John, your first paragraph explains exactly why the sessionistas should recognize that sessions was part of the Uniparty cabal.
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There was the 1987 Vacancy Act. Trump could have appointed someone who had already been confirmed by the Senate for another position, and it would have been a temporary position, long enough to declassify everything. With Ezra Watnick Cohen in DOJ, they knew where the dirt was.
Trump even tipped his hand he was considering Scott Pruitt, and the swamp destroyed him. They drove him from office for some stupid crap about lobbyists, like every single member of Congress isn’t beholden to them. There was no reason Trump couldn’t have fired Sessions the day he recused.
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@Invisigoth: There was one reason he couldn’t fire Sessions: His party was united against him and itching to charge him with obstruction the moment he slipped their noose.
In fact, they wanted him to fire Mueller in the worst way. Mueller was just going through the motions, anyway. The trap had already been set.
When President Trump didn’t bite, their Hail Mary was to raid his attorney’s offices and railroad people like Manafort and Stone, hoping to set him off.
But VSGPDJT would not obstruct their witch hunt, nomatter how much they provoked him. When they made noise about Don Jr, that could have escalated to a charge of retaliation, had they indicted and Trump responded. Retaliation was the very last card that Mueller could play. But something made him blink.
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We may come to find that Mnuchin was Trump’s worst mistake, folks. The jury is still out.
But in the near term, Sessions has been the worst. I initially thought he’d be great, too.
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I hope not as he would be better than Roy Moore. Sessions was a decent senator. The appointment of Sessions as AG was POTUS’s mistake, as he points out, and I’m sure it was made for two reasons: 1) he appreciated Sessions’ early and stalwart support when no one else in DC and politics was supportive and 2) POTUS didn’t ask Sessions the right questions before he decided to appoint him as AG, basically because of his own naivete about a lot of things DC.
If one mystery ever gets solved in this whole mess, I hope it’s the mystery of Sessions. Sometimes a man or woman’s behavior in a certain instance does NOT match the behavior of a lifetime. That seems to be the case here. Okay, so Sessions recused himself. Naive mistake or simply a big mistake, but in either case it doesn’t explain WHY the hell an otherwise honorable man stayed as long as he did while Trump twisted in the wind.
There is still so much that doesn’t make sense.
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I suspect Deep State blackmail.
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So you’re rather have Sessions back as Senator over Roy Moore …. even though you think the Deep State is pulling Sessions strings and can make him do whatever they wish?
The Senate acts a private club which selects its own members with no regard for the electorate. It really needs some ‘bull-in-a-china-shop” elected to it to allow for some genuine diversity of opinion and genuine disagreement over important issues. The fact that the Senate does not want Moore in it and would accept Sessions back indicates that Moore would be what is needed and Sessions would not.
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Everyone’s chains in DC are yanked by someone, directly OR indirectly.
As for blackmail, I will tell you that it’s possible to blackmail anyone. Period. If you think otherwise, you’re naive.
It’s possible for anyone to be put in a vise, where unselfish choices don’t exist, unless you think it’s selfish for you to want loved ones to survive.
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The problem for Trump has always been limited choices for appointments, either because he can’t get the Dems or even GOP approval OR because he doesn’t personally know anyone both competent for the job and loyal to him.
I don’t KNOW that Sessions was blackmailed. It’s one of many suspicions.
I’d bet a lot that Roy Moore would always cause the conservative cause and POTUS trouble. Period.
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Everyone is compromised, everyone is blackmailed or blackmailable, nobody has the courage to tell the blackmailers to go to hell and do the right thing?
We might as well just give up and let the Deep State run our lives for us if what you say is true.
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Deep State can make mistakes and get caught like all criminals.
Look at what happens to whistleblowers?
Or people who rat out capos.
They even got one of their own in prison, Billy Bulger.
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Correction: Whitey Bulger, not his very religious brother, Billy, former Speaker of ths House in MA.
Now, speaking of dilemmas–consider Billy Bulger.
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Jeff did not go to the president before he recused. If he had, the president would have explained to him the sedition that was underway. No, he had to be Mr. Clean. Was in way, way over his head. It’s just that simple. Sadly.
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That may really be true, but that same righteousness or piety should have led him to say to himself, “This investigation is a runaway train and the press is killing the POTUS’s ability to govern so I have to resign.
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The Justice Department ganged up on Sessions. They held a meeting with all the top Justice officials present, and told him he had to recuse. I’ve seen a list of the lawyers present, probably from Sundance, but it’s been published. Evelyn Farkas told us in March 2017 who was taking part in the Coup: it was nearly everyone in Washington. Luckily for us, they locked themselves into the Saturday Night Massacre archetype; when our President Trump didn’t fire Mueller or Rosenstein, they were stymied.
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It was most generous of our President Donald J. Trump to do an interview with former Democratic Staffer Chuck Todd. Mr. Todd is a totally biased Democrat.
I liked Sen. Jeff Sessions as a Senator but not as Attorney General. You know the lovely Maxine Waters(D-CA) told CNN reporter Roland Martin that Pres. Obama has assembled a “database that will have information about everything on every individual in ways that’s never been done before”.
It I sure seems to me that Obama ran a spy operation like the old KGB.
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I will always wonder how things might have turned out differently if POTUS would have immediately fired a lot of people right after the inauguration in January 2017–starting with Jim Comey. We elected a man who made “You’re fired!” a famous brand so I expected mass firings and I can’t help but think that others (maybe Sessions) expected it, too.
I believe POTUS got some bad advice from some swamp people embedded in his transition team. Rience Preibus, etc. The corruption was probably deeper/larger than even Sessions imagined. Nearly all of Sessions’ staff transferred to the Trump administration and are still there-Stephen Miller being just one. Hard to believe that Sessions was a Trojan horse but I don’t think he would have had the necessary courage to investigate Spygate, either. The corruption was already too big when Sessions arrived at AG. It became a monster because too many key people remained in place after the inauguration.
Hindsight is 20/20. Even with all of this, I couldn’t be prouder of President Trump. Believing and expecting the best in people is never a character flaw.
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The combined forces of the GOP and Democrats in Congress went after Trump for firing Comey Do you have any reason to believe that their response would have been any different if he had fired Comey at the end of January instead of the beginning of May?
The problem in DC is that the people who most urgently need to be fired are people who cannot be fired by the president but who can only be fired by the voters. And for whatever reason, the voters seem very, very reluctant to stop voting for their crooked Congressmen. There will be no meaningful change for the better as long as people like McConnell and Sasse and Tillis and Graham and Burr and the rest are the “Republicans” in the Senate.
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I am still a Sessions fan.
“Nearly all of Sessions’ staff transferred to the Trump administration and are still there-Stephen Miller being just one.”
Who else besides Miller?
Miller has been great. Did Sessions fool all his staff or were they all pretending along with him?
If Sessions is such big part of the deep state, why isn’t he on the talk show and book tour circut along with Comey, Brennan, and Clapper?
He could easily have done so much damage to President Trump once he was out of the government. If he is evil or blackmailed, why doesn’t he?
Is the main current theory here the evil duplicitous super clever deep state planted Sessions to help get Trump elected , and evil duplicitous super clever super villain Session cleverly reclused himself and stayed on to cause the maximum damage to Trump?
If Sessions just made a mistake through naivety or obliviousness, why isn’t he on the talk show circut defending President Trump and himself?
His silence suggests to me he is on the side of good and President Trump.
Short version:
Evil or blackmailed = talk
Naive or oblivious = talk
Good and countering deep state plot = silent and complete avoidence of russia.
I think Gman summed it well:
“Who is Jeff Sessions and why did he recuse himself? Is he a Judas and deep state operative? Was he blackmailed? Was he just a nice guy and naive? Did he just get talked into making a whopper of a mistake? Was he a Magoo and doesn’t have a clue? I don’t know, but his silence bothers me.
Gman1976 on June 23, 2019 at 6:04 pm”
I also wonder why Rogers never has said anything at all. As far as I know it is all speculation based on a visit to Trump tower.
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Thank God for Barr. Time will tell.
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I read yesterday that the Republicans in this new budget has said they want to replace the acting COS with Munician. I didn’t think they had any right to do something like Replace on of the Presidents staff? especially one that is trying to cut out the waste in the budget but the republicans now are as bad the Dems and want to raise the Debt ceiling again for the next two years.
I also saw that PT had made a slight mistake with Sessions, He had told the Dems when he was confirmed that he would not do anything to harm Hillary Clinton and if asked to do so he would recuse himself. they got him to recuse for a different Reason However this Traitor blindsided the President because he didn’t bother to go to him first and tell him what he had been advised to do and should he just quit before taking office, Instead he waited and then came out for the camera’s and told them what he had just done. The President said he had been caught totally un aware of what he was about to do. and the Rats in the senate played a big part of him not firing Sessions right then, As far as I am concerned I don’t care how many people run for that seat as long as its not sessions I will be fine with it.. No I don’t especially like Moore either but will back any one who Tree house might suggest
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All I know is that the Jeff Sessions thing broke my heart.
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Elmer Fudd Sessions was a huge friggin mistake all-right… what a pathetic loser (from Dumb & Dumber).
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The final kill of the BS slung by the 69D crowd.
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Guess that finally blows the “Stealth Jeff” conspiracy theory outta the water. LOL
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Not to join the choir, give undue attention to internet personlity wars, or be petty….. BUT it really is the only Q to be asked since we all kinda have agreed forever Sessions was a big mistake: how is the cult of Saint Sessions responding? If anyone sees it, pls post
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Just look upthread aways.
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I had hope for sessions when he was nominated, but then I was reminded about my thoughts when he let the country down: career politicians should NEVER be trusted.
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For those unable to read the NBC link due to blocker restrictions. Beat the man…. 😎
https://outline.com/kRRtUf
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Not sure what Trump is waiting for but it’s way past time to fire Wray, Boente, and anyone else associated with these scandals and personally pull their security clearances.
These shenanigans are exactly why a new CEO fires all the top people in the first few days on the job.
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Who is Jeff Sessions and why did he recuse himself? Is he a Judas and deep state operative? Was he blackmailed? Was he just a nice guy and naive? Did he just get talked into making a whopper of a mistake? Was he a Magoo and doesn’t have a clue? I don’t know, but his silence bothers me.
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Ray Charles can now see Sessions was deep state served up to PDJT as a joke by the Rino’s , after all he was not supposed to win . He worked hard to cover after the fact , along with Rosey . He had the dream for an AG with the biggest scandal in history in his lap , but he chose the wrong side .
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Trump has had a lot of problems with staffing. The problem is there are only a few professionals that are MAGA. It is really Trump vs the world.
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Howie..hope you get to read this post..you were 100 percent right on THE POSSUM …
miss ya my friend…be well
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Jeff Session did a good job on immigration, personally taking over immigration courts to deal with the fake asylum claims. His mistake was in not advising the President to ignore Resistance federal judges that ruled against his executive authority.
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Jeff Sessions quit his job as Attorney General on day 1 by recusing and abdicated to Rod Rosenstein. Then he proceeded to play US Attorney cops-and-robbers while Donald Trump’s presidency burned.
A horrible man.
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So I guess all that Stealth Jeff 4-D chess Wictorism nonsense was just that: Nonsense.
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Several posters have hit upon what I believe are the correct reasons for Sessions’ recusal and subsequent low-key role as the AG on everything BUT the Mueller conspiracy… er ……. the so-called investigation.
Mr. Clean (Sessions) was convinced by the Obozo Coup Plotters including the WH lawyer McGhan that he (Sessions) had committed a sin by talking to a Russian before Jan 20, 2017. Sessions was more concerned about being squeaky clean than understanding the actual legality of what he had done.
PDJT thought Sessions could work some magic on the border and immigration problems, including the human trafficking problem. I think Sessions actually did work on that and got some indictments, but he never helped the President effect any real change to the border problem.
Ultimately Sessions – due to his ignorance of the extent and breadth of the coup plotters schemes – was convinced that the case against PDJT was substantive so he, more concerned about preserving g his Squeaky Clean image – never got involved – his heart was not into defending the President against charges of what Sessions likely believed were real violations of law. And I have no problem believing that McConnell, Ryan, Graham, McCain and the other DeceptiCONs convinced Sessions that he had done the right thing.
Naivete (ignorance of the real fraudulent scheme behind Muh Russia), a bit of narcissism, and lack of political courage to stand up to The Swamp are the reasons why Sessions failed and why the President is rightfully regretful of that appointment.
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My remembering is sessions cut Lois Lerner loose and also wouldn’t prosecute antifa but did go after anti antifa groubs.
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Looks like ole Chuckie was expecting something more juicy from our wonderful President.
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I read the transcript and just kept shaking my head over the panel discussion. No way they would ever have talked about Obama, or really, any previous president they way they do PDJT. They really are hurting this country
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Repeatedly, seemingly effortlessly, “The Orange Fox™” has out-foxed these people. I’m quite sure that he was immediately aware that he was surrounded by jackals on all sides, and that these jackals were taunting him to “recklessly” do this-or-that because they perceived him to be impetuous. And Donald Trump does sometimes use social media to create this very impression! What none of them realized – and most of them still don’t – is that he is maneuvering them all. Placing them exactly where he wants them and then keeping them there.
Washington DC really doesn’t know what to do with a Chief Executive who is cunning.
He actually fired just one person: Comey. And, the letter which Rosenstein wrote to recommend it was actually very good. It showed in just a few pages what a sleaze Comey was and is, and how many people throughout the Justice and Intelligence communities were opposed to what he was doing. Furthermore, since that time Comey has by his own stupid actions and un-pluggable loud mouth merely reinforced that the decision was indeed correct.
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