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highplainsdem

(49,017 posts)
Thu Aug 23, 2018, 07:43 AM Aug 2018

Trump says Jeff Sessions 'never took control of the Justice Department'

Source: CNN

President Donald Trump again lambasted his attorney general as woefully ineffective during an interview aired on Thursday.

"I put in an attorney general who never took control of the Justice Department. Jeff Sessions, never took control of the Justice Department. It's sort of an incredible thing," Trump said on Fox News, bemoaning Sessions' failure to investigate a myriad of perceived injustices against Trump and his campaign.

He pinpointed Sessions' decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation -- a longtime sore spot for the President -- as an act of deep disloyalty.

"It's a very, very sad day. Jeff Sessions recused himself, which he shouldn't have done or he should have told me," he said. "Even my enemies say that Jeff Sessions should have told you that he was going to recuse himself and then you wouldn't have put him in."

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/politics/trump-jeff-sessions-justice-department/index.html

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Trump says Jeff Sessions 'never took control of the Justice Department' (Original Post) highplainsdem Aug 2018 OP
The enemies are getting closer Donald underpants Aug 2018 #1
Enemies? Freethinker65 Aug 2018 #2
trump trying ever thing he can to get Sessions to quit and so far he is 0-122 beachbum bob Aug 2018 #3
trump tied his hands Soxfan58 Aug 2018 #4
Trump will never understand that the government isn't a scam and it isn't a mobster racket. Nitram Aug 2018 #5
Trump feeling sorry for himself once again is bitching about Sessions. riversedge Aug 2018 #6
Many, many of his enemies said Sessions was no fair to T Rump. Mc Mike Aug 2018 #7

Freethinker65

(10,029 posts)
2. Enemies?
Thu Aug 23, 2018, 08:02 AM
Aug 2018

I would like to see a list of his perceived enemies and friends.

It appears anyone that criticizes or disagrees with him, he labels an enemy and feels the need to destroy.

Trump sees no difference between an opponent/rival and an enemy. That is extremely dangerous for someone in power.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
3. trump trying ever thing he can to get Sessions to quit and so far he is 0-122
Thu Aug 23, 2018, 08:20 AM
Aug 2018

Sessions aint leaving as the Senate has his back.

The only explanation

Soxfan58

(3,479 posts)
4. trump tied his hands
Thu Aug 23, 2018, 08:35 AM
Aug 2018

By involving him in a crime. Sessions must be under a lot of pressure, may I suggest a nice Indica-sativa hybred that works well for me.

Nitram

(22,845 posts)
5. Trump will never understand that the government isn't a scam and it isn't a mobster racket.
Thu Aug 23, 2018, 09:07 AM
Aug 2018

He thought once he got elected he was in charge, and if he put his people in charge of the departments, he'd have absolute power over the government. Like a mafia boss. Wrong.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
7. Many, many of his enemies said Sessions was no fair to T Rump.
Thu Aug 23, 2018, 09:53 AM
Aug 2018

But I've also heard many, many people say that T Rump only hires the best people.

So it's a wash.

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