Pressured to recuse himself from the Russian probe March 2, 70-year-old Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions acquiesced to media pressure once it became known he had a few undisclosed conversations during the transition period with former Russian U.S. Amb. Sergey Kislyak. Confirmed Feb. 9 as the nation’s 84th Attorney General, 71-year-old President Donald Trump had no clue Sessions would recuse himself from the Russian probe because of innocuous phone calls with Kislyak after the Nov. 8, 2016 election and before the. Jan. 20, 2017 inauguration. Trump realizes how Session’s recusal has harmed his administration, unable to provide legal counsel to combat what looks like a Democrat and media-staged witch hunt to discredit his White House. Since the last debate in Las Vegas Oct. 19, 2016 where Hillary branded Trump a “Russian puppet,” Democrats and the media haven’t stopped the narrative.
When Hillary lost the election Nov. 8, 2016, Democrats and the media blamed Hillary’s loss on Russian meddling and, now, Trump collusion with the Kremlin. “So why aren’t the Committee and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillary’s crimes & Russia relations,” Trump tweeted Monday, extending an open invitation to Sessions to resign. While former FBI Director Robert Mueller continues the FBI investigation into Russian meddling and Trump collusion, the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, and Senate Judiciary Committee, have conducted their own investigation. Not one shred of evidence has surfaced to prove that Trump or his campaign associates colluded with the Russian government to win the election. Yet the anti-Trump media runs 24/7 stories about Russian meddling and Trump collusion in the 2016 election.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, 36-year-old White House senior counsel Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner provided evidence that no collusion took place. Yet no matter what evidence is provided, Democrats and the media continue the false narrative of Russian collusion. Take the case of Donald Trump Jr., for instance, the New York Times insisted July 9 that he met with a Kremlin lawyer to discus dirt on former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Kremlin officials and the lawyer herself, Natalia Veselnitskaya, deny working for the Kremlin or any part of the Russian government. Yet Democrats and media pressure campaign officials today, the same way they pressured Sessions to recuse himself March 2. Former New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani agreed with Session’s decision to remove himself from the Russian investigation.
If Sessions had no substantive conversations or relations with Moscow, why would he agree to recuse himself from the Russian investigation? Trump’s wondering that same thing now that his AG can’t do anything to combat spurious allegations from Democrats and the media about Trump collusion in the 2016 election. Of all the House or Senate investigators, none is more partisan that House Intelligence Committee Co-chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). “Sleazy Adam Schiff, the totally biased Congressman looking into ‘Russia,’ spend all of his time on television push the Dem loss excuse,” tweeted Trump going after Schiff. “With respect Mr. President, the problem is how often you watch TV, and that your comments and actions are beneath the dignity of the office,” said Schiff showing that Trump got under his skin. Schiff’s comments underscore in neon his extreme prejudice against Trump.
Trump finds himself with an AG that can’t defend his administration against a relentless onslaught by Democrats and their media elites. When Sessions recused himself from the Russian probe, he was guilty of no collusion, only speaking with Kislyak about how to start the slow process of rebuilding U.S.-Russian relations. “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 someone else,” said Trump, obliquely telling Sessions to step down. Worried about fallout in the media, Trump doesn’t want to ask directly for Sessions’ resignation. In fairness to Sessions, he probably didn’t know he’d resign Feb. 9, the day he was confirmed. What Sessions didn’t tell Trump was that he had at least two conversations with Kislyak about taking steps to improve U.S.-Russian relations.
Instead of taking a hint, Sessions showed no interest in stepping down, yet the handwriting’s on the walls. Sessions said he stays AG “as long as that is appropriate.” With Trump wanting him out, it’s no longer appropriate for Sessions to hang on. Sessions knows that Cabinet secretaries serve at the pleasure of the president. “Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself. I then have, which, frankly, I think is a very unfair to the president. How do take a job the recuse yourself. If he would have recused himself before taking the job, I would have said ‘Thanks Jeff, but I can’t you know, I not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair, and that a mild word, to the president,” said Trump. Session’s heard Trump speak and it’s appropriate for him to step down. No president should have a rogue Cabinet secretary. Cabinet secretaries serve at the pleasure of the president and nothing else.
