Recently, Donald Trump has been placated and has put off firing Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and Special Counsel Robert Mueller after Rosenstein gave the House Judiciary copies of former FBI Director James Comey's memos on his meetings with Trump.
The House Judiciary immediately leaked the notes to the press in hopes that it would somehow show that Comey wasn't credible, but that "brilliant plan" has already backfired and this morning Trump was attacking the "Special Council" on Twitter yet again.
But the bigger story this morning is Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who over the course of the last week or so may have accidentally developed a microscopic thread of human decency.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently told the White House he might have to leave his job if President Trump fired his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the exchange.
Sessions made his position known in a phone call to White House counsel Donald McGahn last weekend, as Trump’s fury at Rosenstein peaked after the deputy attorney general approved the FBI’s raid April 9 on the president’s personal attorney Michael Cohen.
Sessions’s message to the White House, which has not previously been reported, underscores the political firestorm that Trump would invite should he attempt to remove the deputy attorney general. While Trump also has railed against Sessions at times, the protest resignation of an attorney general — which would be likely to incite other departures within the administration — would create a moment of profound crisis for the White House.
In the phone call with McGahn, Sessions wanted details of a meeting Trump and Rosenstein held at the White House on April 12, according to a person with knowledge of the call. Sessions expressed relief to learn that their meeting was largely cordial. Sessions said he would have had to consider leaving as the attorney general had Trump ousted Rosenstein, this person said.
Another person familiar with the exchange said Sessions did not intend to threaten the White House but rather wanted to convey the untenable position that Rosenstein’s firing would put him in.
A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.
I know, I'm astonished as well. Jeff Sessions actually doing the right thing, going to bat for his eople to protect them from Trump after spending nearly a year twiddling his twiddlers doing nothing because of his recusal from the case? Why, that would be two correct actions in 11 months. At that rate, Sessions might win the Nobel prize in 3416.
Meanwhile the Democrats aren't sitting back and waiting around for once either (all these people in politics doing the right things, what the hell?) Dems are now suing Trump, Russia, and WikiLeaks in a major civil case.
The Democratic National Committee filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Friday against the Russian government, the Trump campaign and the WikiLeaks organization alleging a far-reaching conspiracy to disrupt the 2016 campaign and tilt the election to Donald Trump.
The complaint, filed in federal district court in Manhattan, alleges that top Trump campaign officials conspired with the Russian government and its military spy agency to hurt Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and help Trump by hacking the computer networks of the Democratic Party and disseminating stolen material found there.
“During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump’s campaign,” DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement.
“This constituted an act of unprecedented treachery: the campaign of a nominee for President of the United States in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency,” he said.
The suit asserts that the Russian hacking campaign — combined with Trump associates’ contacts with Russia and the campaign’s public cheerleading of the hacks — amounted to an illegal conspiracy to interfere in the election and caused serious damage to the Democratic Party.
Go for it, guys. Stormy Daniels shows us the way.
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