Firing Sessions is a Terrible Idea
By Bruce Walker / American Thinker
Donald Trump is a naturally polarizing figure. His bread and butter is brazen attacks on those who challenge him. As a media figure and as a business promoter, that worked well. As president, however, Trump needs to pick his fights carefully and avoid needless political bloodletting. Changing people in his administration when he feels that things have gone wrong suggests that he picked the wrong people to begin with, especially in the first six months of his administration.
In some cases, like Comey, a holdover from the Obama administration, Trump should have cleaned house right at the beginning of his term of office, when people naturally understand Trump’s need to have his own people in key positions. When Trump gets rid of people who have been his supporters and who have interviewed for the job Trump gives them in his administration, it is a different matter.
Jeff Sessions was the first senator to endorse Trump in his run for the Republican nomination. Sessions is also a man who during his political career has stood up to the Establishment and done what he has believed to be the right thing even if it was not the most politically expedient. Sessions has a reputation among the Republican caucus in the Senate as a particularly honorable and decent man. He also gave up a safe Senate seat as a member of the majority party to serve on Trump’s team.
If President Trump fires Attorney General Sessions or if Trump continues to harass Sessions with dumb tweets, then the president runs the risk of alienating honest, genuine Senate conservatives who are immune to threats from Trump but who can give him headaches and problems he cannot imagine.
Almost everything Trump does, except for executive orders, must go through the Senate – legislation, appointments, and treaties. If Trump alienates conservative Republicans in the Senate, it is hard to see how he will be able to do anything during his term as president. Why should these senators trust Trump? Why should they believe he is really conservative, particularly if he taps Rudy Giuliani as the next attorney general, a decent man on the wrong side of nearly every social issue?
When every single Republican Senate vote is vital in repealing Obamacare, why in the world would President Trump risk offending those conservative senators whose support he desperately needs? While pressure from McConnell and Trump have doubtless switched some votes, every single vote in the Senate is necessary to beginning the repeal process.
When the investigation of Trump and his family bubbles into allegations that suggest the need for congressional investigation, why would Trump go out of his way to outrage conservative senators who will be on the very committees interrogating his family and his staff? Does Trump grasp that these senators could garner rave reviews from the mainstream media by asking tough questions in these hearings?
Trump behaves as if he were the head of a corporation called the federal government and everyone were his employee subject to firing at his wish. His influence over senators in conservative states, however, is limited. (The same is true of House members from safe districts, which is to say nearly every House member.)
Donald Trump won the presidency with less than 46% of the popular vote because conservatives supported him. Conservatives wanted to support Trump and wanted to believe that he represents their values. Without their support, Trump cannot do anything at all except lose the next election by a landslide and perhaps even lose the Republican nomination in 2020 to someone like Jeff Sessions.
No conservative really wants this, because it would mean needless civil wars and might lead to a leftist in the White House again, but President Trump needs to do much more to solidify his support with conservatives than he has done so far. Conservatives are used to being disappointed in Republican presidents. They have learned the hard way that supporting Republican presidents reflexively because that president is Republican is a betrayal of conservatism.
Firing a strongly conservative attorney general who left the Senate to serve Trump, an early supporter of Trump, and a thoroughly decent and honorable man is a terrible idea – and a test for conservatives about the character and values of President Trump.
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Sessions is an enemy of the marijuana reform and keeps criminalizing honest people, with their victimless crimes of drug possession. The war on drugs is a war on family members . The people trying to keep drugs illegal are the same ones using drugs behind closed doors. If we were truly free ,then we should be able to put whatever we want in our bodies, it is not what goes in the mouth that defiles him, it’s what comes out.
Jeff S needs to go if he will not go after the real massive criminals and would rather go after Joe Six Pack to steal more money for the corporate state. You all know what I am talking about.
The federal gov is a corporation and foreign owned. “Trump behaves as if he were the head of a corporation called the federal government”
In fact he is.
And Trump likely got way more of the popular vote than he was credited for. HC stole at least 5 states and likely millions of Trumps votes were transferred to her. That woman could had to cancel rallies because so few would come. Don’t believe anything the MSM reported as factual.
If the writer wants to learn a little bit how the real system works read this case and then report on it. Otherwise the writer is part of the problem and is spreading disinformation. https://supremecourtcase.wordpress.com/
The whole asset forfeiture and going after marijuana users is simply wrong and unconstitutional and he should know this. If he swore an oath to defend the constitution these these two act along would appear to be treason to the constitution.
Show me the constitutional authority for a foreign gov to do anything to Americans or back off.
Sessions is “Deep Stater”, or his is much too timid to be effective. Either way, he has to go.
Fire Him, get into his office and kick in the hind and and yell git out, yer slowing down nailing that criminal clinton you bastard
trump has already given him public shaming and is expecting his resignation any day, we dont know why trump wanted to stop the russian connection investigation, the thing is even if the fbi stops looking into foreign/collusion other intelligence agencies wont stop looking into trump’s personal income tax evasion along with other high profile high income earners, its a scam rich people know how to not pay taxes
Yes, he is honorable and decent, That does not mean he is doing the job. Germany arrested 87,000 pedophiles, many of them officials. We arrest 3,500 really bottom of the barrel pedos. Where are the blood drinking, organ trafficking, child eating elite? We know some of their names from hacked information and they are skating. They have not even slowed down their nasty project. How about getting someone that does the job?