Under the assumption that Attorney General Jeff Sessions will eventually leave his post, President Donald Trump “is considering” as many as five potential replacements, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, based on unnamed White House officials and outside advisers. The Journal acknowledged that Sessions “isn’t currently planning to leave,” and “there are no finalized plans to remove him,” but that Sessions does anticipate “he may be asked to resign,” in the paper’s words.
The Journal’s sources listed five potential replacements for Sessions:
“Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Transportation Department general counsel Steven Bradbury, former Attorney General Bill Barr, Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan and Janice Rogers Brown, a retired appeals court judge from the District of Columbia Circuit.”
Unless he makes Rosenstein the AG, he’s not going to be able to replace Sessions that easily. I can’t see Sessions leaving the job willingly and I do think he would rat out Trump in a second if he lost this dream job. All these Sessions pieces which pop up every 2 weeks or so are just the usual palace intrigue.
Lindsey Graham is not on the list. All his tantrums were for nothing. Will Lindsey be mad or sad?
Trump will have to fire Sessions. It’s better to keep potential enemies on the inside than cast them out.
He’ll be whatever the Donald tells him to be.
When LBJ was urged to fire J. Edgar Hoover, the president said he would “rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.” Hoover stayed.