Attorney General Jeff Sessions told White House Counsel Don McGahn last weekend that he would consider resigning if President Donald Trump fires Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the Washington Post reported Friday evening, citing sources familiar with the conversation.
Sessions’ call with McGahn came at the height of Trump’s rage over the FBI raid on his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. Sessions called McGahn not to threaten his resignation, but to inquire about a meeting between Trump and Rosenstein, according to the Washington Post. Sessions was relieved that the meeting was not contentious and said that Trump firing Rosenstein would force him to consider leaving as well, per the Washington Post.
Rosenstein reportedly told Trump in that meeting that he was not the target of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe or the Cohen investigation, prompting Trump’s anger with Rosenstein to cool off.
Read the Washington Post’s full report here.
I think Rosenstein told a big fat lie. Heh.
And IQ45 really got upset then. He began to worry it wasn’t about HIM.
Of course, Rosenstein never told Trump that two of his sons, his daughter, his son-in-law, his wife, Barron’s hamster, and the Pence’s Russian handler weren’t “targets” though, did he?
Idle threats from Lyin’ Jeff Sessions. He’ll never resign; he has far too much work ahead of him in his crusade to incarcerate and terrorize as many black people (and other minorities) as possible. His life’s mission is to drag the nation back to the days of Jim Crow and segregation.
Sessions’ resignation if Rosenstein were fired would be a bonus, not a problem, from Trump’s point of view. Having said that, my impression is that Sessions is holding onto his job tooth and nail. He would certainly find a reason not to resign, even if both Rosenstein AND Mueller were fired. This is why he only threatened to resign after it became clear that the heat was temporarily off of Rosenstein.