My reader George True has posted eloquent comments here.
I used two, with his consent, as guest posts:
Guest post: a reader’s perspective on the Florida school shooting (February 23 comment)
Guest post: a reader’s perspective on the Deep State and Mueller investigation (April 15, George True)
George’s latest is about Jeff Sessions’s priorities, initially posted here in reply to ‘Increasing outcry for Sleepy Sessions to go’.
George has kindly consented to my using his comment as a guest post. Q is the intel source dropping geopolitical breadcrumbs. Sundance is the founder and author of The Conservative Treehouse. Emphases mine below.
I really do not know what to believe at this point in time. Q keeps saying ‘trust Sessions’. Sundance keeps saying ‘trust Sessions’. Yet Sessions appears to have been MIA for fifteen months, while the entire time his boss (our President) has been continuously savaged by the MSM, the DNC, and rogue agencies such as the FBI and Sessions’ own agency, the DOJ.
One of the highly publicized actions of the DOJ under Sessions is the rounding up of MS-13 gang bangers in certain parts of our country. While I am in favor of this, what good does it do without also reining in the agencies that promoted and facilitated the importation of massive numbers of Mexican criminals in the first place? And in any case, how is arresting MS-13 members MORE important than arresting the ringleaders of what is now known to have been an attempted coup and overthrow of the lawfully and constitutionally elected government of the United States?
As I have opined in prior comments at this blog, I sincerely hope and pray that there is far more going on under the radar than we everyday people can possibly see. One of two possibilities exists. Either Sessions is doing essentially nothing……..OR, he is fully engaged in the greatest stealth operation of getting the goods on the Deep State criminal cabal that there has ever been. In other words, boiling the frog so slowly that he won’t realize it until too late.
Only time will tell. And time is running out. Primary elections are almost upon us, and the mid-term elections are just six months away. If there is no action against the coup plotters soon, the Republicans stand to lose big, possibly losing one or both houses of congress. Just today, April 20, the corrupt and criminal DNC filed suit against the Trump campaign in federal court. This highly visible lawsuit breathes new life into the ab initio false narrative of Trump being elected as a result of ‘collusion’ with Russia.
The suit will go nowhere. Its entire purpose is to continue the fraudulent claims against Trump for the purpose of tilting the all-important mid-term elections to the Democrats. Once they have even marginal control of congress, they will vote to impeach Trump. Even if they are unsuccessful in removing him, they will effectively hamstring his administration for the rest of his time in office. Only the public exposure and prosecution of the Democrat coup plotters by Jeff Sessions’ DOJ prior to then will blunt the ongoing propaganda campaign of the left and prevent a mid-term debacle. We will soon know whether Sessions is the real deal or not. Let us pray we do not find out the hard way due to complete inaction on the part of Sessions.
I couldn’t agree more, George.
What now looms in my mind is the possibility that Jeff Sessions has been compromised.
In February, Sessions had dinner with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — the de facto Attorney General after Sessions’s recusals — and Solicitor General Noel Francisco at a restaurant near the Justice Department. Was it, as the Washington Post posits, a show of solidarity?
The same WaPo article, published on April 20, zeroed in on Sessions’s rumoured loyalty to Rosenstein, who is closest to Robert Mueller and his investigation: ‘Sessions told White House that Rosenstein’s firing could prompt his departure too’:
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 …
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.
Sessions’s primary loyalty should be to President Trump rather than Rod Rosenstein. The Mueller investigation is going nowhere, and Rosenstein is the one who appointed Mueller on May 17, 2017 without consulting with Sessions beforehand:
The decision took Trump by surprise and greatly angered him.
Back to the present: on April 20, Donald McGahn gave Rosenstein a set of presidential cufflinks he wore at his appearance before the Supreme Court on April 23 to argue a case about sentencing in a drugs case conviction.
It’s difficult for the public to know what to think.
If President Trump did fire Rosenstein and Sessions subsequently resigned, then Trump could get a Senate-approved replacement for the AG spot under vacancy rules.
It wouldn’t hurt for Trump’s supporters to have a bit of clarity about this situation.
A post about Sessions’s recusals is coming soon.
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April 27, 2018 at 2:10 pm
georgiafl
If I may post an old Southern biddy’s 2¢ worth on Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Attorney General of the USA, former Senator, Alabama AG, and Federal Prosecutor.
There is not the slightest chance that JBSIII will betray his President.
No chance that Sessions is going to let up one tiny bit from his fierce lifelong defense of the law and Constitution.
“Back in 2011, the indomitable Peter Schweizer published Throw Them All Out, a detailed examination of political corruption as it is actually practiced in the halls of Congress.
In his investigation, Schweizer found one single member of Congress against whom no allegations could be held – who had never taken a dime that was not his, had never cut any backroom deals, had never, simply put, played the game.
That individual was Jeff Sessions.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/03/sessions_makes_his_move.html
Sessions was known as the silent assassin. Good iron-clad cases that stick and bring down crooks, are put together slowly and methodically.
Sessions has been working hard and unceasingly to do just what his President directed and tasked him to do.
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April 27, 2018 at 2:16 pm
churchmouse
Okay, thanks, georgiafl.
I have read similar on a near-daily basis at The Conservative Treehouse, but thanks for posting here for the benefit of my readers.
I am 99% unlikely to change my mind, even if/when something good happens (e.g. indictments, arrests, imprisonment). Those good things will happen in spite of Sessions.
Right now, it looks as if the President is trying to light a fire underneath him, so I will give the President full credit for any good things to come in this regard.
The Sessions issue is a burning one for me.
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April 27, 2018 at 4:07 pm
georgiafl
The cufflinks story was new to me. I doubt the President’s own legal counsel would have done that without Trump’s knowledge and approval.
Sessions is a lifelong defender of law and the Constitution, I doubt he will depart from that for the sake of Rosenstein or for the sake of collegiality with the likes of the dark denizens of the Senate.
I’m not trying to change your opinion, just offer encouragement and comfort – as you have done so wonderfully for me.
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April 27, 2018 at 9:42 pm
churchmouse
SD covered it in his post early this week with the first of the smiling baby photo features.
No slight against SD as readers were overjoyed.
That said, a few of us (myself included) wondered what was going on. A few commented that they did not understand the joy or the context.
Thank you for your kind words, georgiafl.
Re the AG, however, I’m fed up to the back teeth. I spent an hour this evening thinking what I would do in his shoes. I could come up with only one word.
We can be encouraged only in the faith in and love of Christ Jesus. All else pales into insignificance.
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April 27, 2018 at 2:27 pm
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Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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April 27, 2018 at 9:48 pm
churchmouse
Thank you very much for the reblog.
I also greatly appreciate seeing how many of your readers liked the post. No doubt George True does, too. (I have suggested that he start his own blog. 🙂 )
Many thanks, Michael.
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April 27, 2018 at 2:28 pm
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May 2, 2018 at 9:05 pm
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