Trump White House Privately Considering Replacing Jeff Sessions With Ted Cruz

[applegrove]

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/07/24/trump-white-house-privately-replacing-jeff-sessions-ted-cruz.html


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Private talks inside the Trump White House continued to escalate on Monday as a new Washington Post report indicates that the president is also considering Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to replace Jeff Sessions as the attorney general.

According to the report, Cruz’s name is one of two individuals – the other is former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, as earlier reporting noted – being considered to replace Sessions.

More from the report:

Among the names being floated as possible Sessions replacements are Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, according to people familiar with the conversations.

 Giuliani dismissed a report floating his name as a possible attorney general and told CNN that Sessions “made the right decision under the rules of the Justice Department” to recuse himself. He did not return a message seeking comment.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. There seems to be an unending supply of bigoted assholes in the Repub party...

[applegrove]

3. I'm hoping it is just Trump rattling his golden cage.

[irisblue]

2. Can you imagine Sen Franken at the Judiciary Hearing?

[applegrove]

4. That would make Franken President one day soon.

[irisblue]

7. There cannot be enough hazmat material to clean after that bloodletting.

[onetexan]

31. lol good one

[moonscape]

26. Rachel pointed out tonight that when the Senate is

in recess, 45 could fire Sessions and make a recess appointment of a new AG who would not then need confirmation and could remain in place until 2019.

What an unrelenting nightmare ...

[OnDoutside]

27. **** THIS. ***** Dems should be prepared to march on this.

[dalton99a]

5. Getting worse and worse

[exboyfil]

6. Cruz would be the smart choice

He definitely needs someone outside his campaign/inner circle. Why would Cruz take it. A deal for Trump to step aside and support Cruz in 2020?

[Not Ruth]

8. Cruz is too important to the GOP where he is

Plus Trump turnover is very high and very sudden. Who is going to give up a steady govt job for a chance to get hung out to dry? Unlike a lot of his peers, Cruz needs the job.

[applegrove]

12. Cruz is self involved enough that he might just think he could

leverage fighting all that's decent in the USA, which he would be up against and seems to especially enjoy, to win a presidential nomination.

[JCMach1]

30. Cruz will be in a fight for re-election

That's the 411 down here in TX. He has made a lot of enemies on the R side.

[onetexan]

32. u got it, we need to kick out this ideologically radical scumbag

Beto is polling better than him thank goodness

[Gabi Hayes]

9. Fake news!

Sessions and Donnie jr. and Jared and Flynn and mooch and Kelly Anne and Gorka all tell truth all the time

So do all the Repub senators when describing the panacea that is trumpcare

[Not Ruth]

10. Cruz is more likely to hold out for SCOTUS

Lifetime job, lots of perks, and he had a brief background in it.

[panader0]

11. Who would replace Cruz in the Senate?

Would Trump risk that?

[virtualobserver]

14. it wouldn't be a risk

The Governor would just appoint another scary Republican

[Not Ruth]

18. It might makes sense after a Cruz and Abbott win in 2018

Not before

[virtualobserver]

19. Trump is thinking about his short term needs

Winning a Senate election in Texas isn't hard for Republicans.

[lapfog_1]

28. Louie Gohmert

[virtualobserver]

33. a scary thought indeed.....

but Gohmert might lose in 2018....so I might welcome that choice.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. He would not even think about it.

He sees himself as playing a virtual game of The Apprentice.
trump rules thru fear and intimidation, has no clue how inherently unstable revolving doors are in Gov.

One upside is whoever he picks, hopefully Cruz or Guiliani, they will be in a career dead end one way or another.
this is good..very good.
Betcha Cruz knows that.

[applegrove]

20. But if the GOP healthcare goes through and millions of Texans lose

their health care, Cruz could lose his Senate seat.

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. Oh goody...so, no easy choices for him. Love it.

Have you noticed that he is not getting much press of late?

[applegrove]

25. There is someone out there more Cray-Cray than him these days: Trump.

[mnmoderatedem]

13. no better choice for Attorney General

than a guy the president himself refers to as Lyin' Ted.

[UTUSN]

15. Who can go *LOWER* - Drumpf or Cruz?!

[DefenseLawyer]

17. Dershowitz has been throwing himself at Trump for a while now.

I think he would take the job.

[Efilroft Sul]

21. That would kill two birds with one stone: The Mueller investigation and Cruz's political career.

[Warren DeMontague]

22. It'll be an ethics-challenged toady with real limited near-term career options

[applegrove]

23. That makes alot of sense. Trump probably misses him at this point.

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And Christie's career as a politician is over.

[lapfog_1]

29. It won't be Ted Cruz or Chris Christie

Their loyalty to Trump is not absolute. Cruz will never forgive Trump for the comments Trump made about his father or his wife. Christie is intensely disliked by Jared and was passed over for everything because he put Jared's father in prison.

That leaves one person that Trump would trust to end the Russia investigation... one that he could appoint during the recess.