DANGER AHEAD, WHAT'S BEHIND TRUMP BASHING A.G. SESSIONS?

It’s not hard to see that Trump is intent on getting A.G. Sessions to resign.  Firing him would bring back memories of Watergate. Trump is desperate to get rid of the Special Prosecutor who is investigating Trump for obstruction of justice and some of his family, associates and former staff for a variety of crimes.  No one, not even the President, not even Donald Trump is above the law.  This is a basic tenet of the rule of law which is fundamental our Constitution and freedom.  Here we have a President who wants to avoid the rule of law by trying to quash and investigation of himself and others in his circle.  This is country is not some country run by tin-horn dictator.  It is a constitutional system attempting to secure rights and democracy for all. 

“The spectacle of President Trump’s efforts to humiliate the attorney general into resigning has transfixed the country. But while we are busy staring at the wreckage of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ relationship with the man he supported for the presidency, there is something more insidious happening. . .

The president is attempting to dismantle the rule of law, destroy the time-honored independence of the Justice Department, and undermine the career men and women who are devoted to seeking justice day in and day out, regardless of which political party is in power.” . . .

President Trump claims that it is very “unfair” that Mr. Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation, a recusal indisputably necessary given Mr. Sessions’ role in the campaign that is now under investigation. At its core, the president’s complaint is that he doesn’t have a political ally at the Justice Department to protect him from the Russia investigation. And he is apparently trying to bully Mr. Sessions into resigning so that he can put someone in place who will.  . . .

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“The president hasn’t stopped there. He has also tried to goad Mr. Sessions into re-initiating a closed investigation of the president’s former political rival. And all of this takes place in the wake of the president’s attempts to persuade the former F.B.I. director James Comey to back off the Michael Flynn investigation, and then firing Mr. Comey when he didn’t.  . . .

President Trump’s actions appear aimed at destroying the fundamental independence of the Justice Department. All the while, he’s ripping the blindfold off Lady Justice and attempting to turn the department into a sword to seek vengeance against his perceived enemies and a shield to protect himself and his allies.”