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still_one

(92,131 posts)
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 09:39 PM Mar 2017

Did Trump reverse Obama order last month because he knew there would be a Sessions investigation?

On Feb. 9, the same day current Attorney General Jeff Sessions was sworn into office, Donald Trump quietly signed an executive order that effectively changed the line of succession within the Department of Justice, laying out who will succeed Sessions in the event he dies, resigns or otherwise becomes incapacitated.

Trump’s order was a reversal of one signed a month prior by then-president Barack Obama. A week before leaving office, Obama authorized Executive Order 13762, “Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Justice.” That order inexplicably removed Obama appointee Dana Boente, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, from the DOJ line of succession. As USA Today reports, at the time Obama offered no justification for why he removed an attorney he appointed from the order of succession within the DOJ.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/did-trump-reverse-an-obama-order-last-month-because-he-knew-there-would-be-a-sessions-russia-investigation/

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Did Trump reverse Obama order last month because he knew there would be a Sessions investigation? (Original Post) still_one Mar 2017 OP
Boente vigorously osculated Drumpf's rectum when he was appointed Acting AG. rzemanfl Mar 2017 #1
In other words, the Obama administration knew what was going on with Sessions hedda_foil Mar 2017 #2
Thank you stillone.. I have so much reading to catch up on.. nt Cha Mar 2017 #3

rzemanfl

(29,556 posts)
1. Boente vigorously osculated Drumpf's rectum when he was appointed Acting AG.
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 09:41 PM
Mar 2017

Obama must have been suspicious of him.

hedda_foil

(16,372 posts)
2. In other words, the Obama administration knew what was going on with Sessions
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 11:54 PM
Mar 2017

It sure seems like they knew he was dirty and they tried to take the naming of his successor off the table.

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