Saving Sessions: Inside the GOP effort to protect the AG

[DonViejo]

By JONATHAN LEMIRE, ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO
1 hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after President Donald Trump deemed Jeff Sessions “beleaguered” and threatened to fire him last July, members of the president’s inner circle made a desperate case to save the attorney general’s job.

The White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and the president’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, pleaded with Trump during a heated Oval Office meeting to keep Sessions, warning that his dismissal would only pour gasoline on the Russia investigation. And, they said, it could alienate those in Trump’s conservative base, supporters enamored with the attorney general’s tough stances on law enforcement and immigration.

Priebus and Bannon both were out of their jobs within the month. But Sessions survived, his reprieve delivered by John Kelly as one of his first acts as chief of staff.

Ten months later, the Republican campaign to save Sessions has continued and — at least for now — succeeded. In private meetings, public appearances on television and late-night phone calls, Trump’s advisers and allies have done all they can to persuade the president not to fire a Cabinet official he dismisses as disloyal. The effort is one of the few effective Republican attempts to install guardrails around a president who delights in defying advice and breaking the rules.

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https://apnews.com/9f341490400a4058ace6e4c1acd5c1b6

[lark]

1. He delights in getting away with stealing from the taxpayers for his persona benefit.

He delights in committing crimes to steal the presidency and is doing everything possible to steal the next elections with foreign help, stage a false flag terrorist event, suspend the constitution, steal all the SS and Medicare $ for himself, do away with all labor and environmental laws, & end public education and healthcare.

[Phoenix61]

2. Sessions is an evil little elf

A very smart, evil little elf. He's been in politics a long time and I'm sure he knows where a lot of bodies are buried. Push come to shove, he'll flip in a New York minute, blame his sins on Satan, publically repent, and have a big showy baptism. His transgressions will be forgiven by his loving Alabamians and all will be well.