Sen. Lindsey Graham told NBC’s “Today” show Tuesday that the rift between President Trump and his Attorney General Jeff Sessions is “much deeper” than Trump’s clear ire with Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe.
“This relationship [between Trump & Sessions] is beyond repair…You have to replace him [Sessions] w/ somebody who is highly qualified & will committ to the Senate to allow Mueller to do his job.” @LindseyGrahamSC explains why his opinion of AG Jeff Sessions has changed pic.twitter.com/hrGAFoCA6K
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) August 28, 2018
Not buying it, Lindsey. You sold us out on that golf course. There’s only one reason Trump wants Sessions gone. So let’s not talk about commitments. We know how much that’s worth in the kind of Washington you people have created.
Yes, it’s not like the relationship broke down because the two just couldn’t get along. PP wants Sessions to obstruct justice. Sessions won’t do it. That’s the entirety of the breakdown/disrepair of their relationship. He’d have the exact same problem with anyone else who is confirmed. Graham knows this.
Oh, the massive ironies! No one – no one – has worked harder than Jeff Sessions, or with greater fealty to the Troll in Chief, in implementing the racialist, anti-immigrant, vote-suppressive elements of the Trump/GOP agenda. Sessions should be a hero of the modern Republican Party. Yet despite his subservience to Trump on all other matters, his unwillingness to embrace the full implications of das Fuhrerprinzip has earned him nothing but contempt from his GOP colleagues. Of all the weird things happening right now, this has surely got to be right at the top of the list.
It’s becoming so obvious to anyone who’s paying attention.
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1033442546079473664
https://twitter.com/Lawrence/status/1033343367625748480