Good point. But I'm not confident Trump understands what Sessions does for him. He just knew Sessions was an early supporter but may not appreciate that some part of the alt-right's ultimate devotion is with Sessions and the project of Making America White Again, not Trump personally. I agree some other committed white supremacist would help win those people back, but I suspect Trump would just consult his Fox pundit rolodex and arrive on Mark Levin or that Jay Sekulow guy who runs that grift charity.

So I think you're correct he could find someone else who is a replacement-level committed white supremacist but he'd probably just do something inane and lazy.

Trump will try to replace him with Giuliani. Maybe Barron gets the cybers job.

I hope Mueller is making IT security a priority.

Sessions may get fired, but he ain't quitting. He left the Senate to take this job and the opportunity to lock up hundreds of thousands of black people.

The bottom line is that Trump needs the support of a compliant AG if he decides to fire Mueller.

Firing Mueller would be a desperation move, as Nixon's firing of Archibald Cox was. But if the alternative is bad enough, then Trump may decide that a desperation move is his best play.

And if Trump is forced into that sort of desperation move, he definitely wants a compliant AG who will publicly support the firing. Sessions can't do that because he recused himself, and that's why, from Trump's perspective, Sessions has to go.

Or Christie. Someone like that is far more likely. Trump ain't gonna go for an ideologue, he now thinks that position is supposed to be filled with a lackey who will never cross him. Which as I said is going to lead him to some Fox n Friend type candidate or one of the lawyers already in his orbit. And I bet that causes a lot of problems for him. Christie and Giuliani or some of his buddies aren't going to win him the devotion of the truly deplorable who think Sessions is deeply committed to the project, and think Christie/Giuliani types are fakers. But he can't shed many more deplorables and still maintain political viability and they're already growing quietly alarmed Trump and his family and friends are just dicking around all day not building the wall, not deporting people, etc.

The more I think about it, the more certain I am that Trump wants Sessions to quit. If Sessions quits, Trump will be spared the fallout of firing him. If Sessions wants to make life hard for Trump, then he will force Trump to fire him, thus triggering some of the fallout that DVaut has alluded to.

He's trying to avoid stepping on his own NYT news. That was obviously pointed loud and clear towards non-Trumpists and away from the discovery of that vile & disgusting Americanless 2nd Putin meeting.

Christie would be a terrible choice imo. He is not a reliable enough ally for Trump's purposes. Even as AG, he would throw Trump to the wolves if he thought it would be in his self-interest to do so.

It's hard to find someone who has his Neo-Confederate cred. The man is named after three Confederate generals and was personally criticized by Coretta Scott King for voter suppression!

The way I read this is as a semi-bluff move by Trump. What Trump actually wants is for his Attorney General to fire Mueller, but he realizes Sessions won't do the dirty work for him. So the "solution" is to goad Sessions into resigning and then he nominates a new AG who (he hopes) will fire Mueller. Of course, Trump is delusional if he thinks he can get away with his version of the Saturday Night Massacre.

I suspect at some point we're going to have a constitutional crisis. If Donald Trump and his family members are involved in criminal activity, Mueller will surely uncover it, (i.e. "Just follow the money!"), and lower-level folks will start getting indicted and/or prosecuted. Trump can't let that happen so, in his mind, Mueller must be circumvented. When Trump fires Mueller, we'll find out if we're a nation of laws - or a nation of men.

Which is why I posted that revised theory saying it feels like Trump already approached Sessions (and possibly Rosenstein) about firing Mueller after he met with Putin.

Roy Moore ftw.

0% chance that Rosenstein would support the firing of Mueller. Doing so would make him look ridiculous.

Plus he's from Baltimore, and you know what that means.

Do you guys think this is actually mueller straight calling the bluff from trump about firing him if he went into his finances? The timing of this is elite, and i really hope mueller team is behind it

We already knew this because Trump raged about Mueller looking at his finances in the NYT interview.

Dude has the best tells.

The Saturday Night Massacre did not directly bring Nixon down, he remained in office for a year. With Democrats in control of Congress.

Today is the 6 month anniversary of Trump's inauguration. Only 87% of his term left to complete!

There's a perverse part of me that really wants to see how something like this would play out. Especially if Trump starts throwing around pardons for all of his family/associates/etc.

For extra perverse-ness, I wonder how it plays out if this drags out to say December 2020 and Trump loses. What does he have to lose by just going pardon-happy?

This is wrong atm; all the polls (if you trust them anyway) say trump supporters and R's gonna turn out in 18 and D voters aren't.

btw, this trump sessions spat is fake news and you're all falling for it again.

I'd bet a lot against this.

Don't say that. I've repeatedly posted that the important news was discovering the 2nd Putin meeting the night before last.

He screwed up his fraud so badly it ended up being honest.

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/statu...79212938231808

Deeply sick AND deeply concerned.

"sick"

Since we have an AG who plays too much by the rules, maybe he can start going after criminals like this:

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/s...78315457826816