The Unraveling Begins

Kent Anderson
Jul 20, 2017 · 2 min read

If I’m Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (and thank goodness I’m not), I would walk into the Oval Office this morning and say to the charlatan-in-chief, “I quit.”

If I’m Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (and thank goodness I’m not), I would walk into the Oval Office this morning and say to Delusional Don, “I quit.”

But, I’m not them and they won’t quit, because they’re in too deep with this 71-year-old phony. They can’t, because the vacuum and maelstrom it would create would make the infamous “Saturday Night Massacre” look like a going-away party by comparison.

Six months. Last night in an interview with the “fake” New York Times, referring to himself in the third person, called Sessions ‘recusal’ — which is a bit suspect in and of itself — “very unfair to the president.”

“Sessions should have never recused himself,” Trump told the paper, “and if he was going to recuse himself he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else.”

Now that he has set himself up and pushed Sessions into a corner, what will the Attorney General do? Resign and take his deputy with him? Or force his boss to fire him, Rosenstein and Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe?

Which brings us to whom he really wants to fire, Robert Mueller. Mueller is the Special Council appointed by Sessions to get to the bottom of Russia’s collusion to get this guy in over Hillary Clinton. He claims that because he interviewed Mueller for the FBI job after he fired James Comey, that makes it a ‘conflict of interest.’ “There were many other conflicts that I haven’t said, but I will at some point.” Sure, Donny, sure. Just like the “evidence” you had that President Obama wasn’t born here.

No, it doesn’t. It makes it look like a set-up. This whole administration is a sham, quite possibly the worst since Harding. Sessions should walk away. But just like Harry Daughery, Harding’s AG, he won’t. Not because he can’t, because he can, but because if he does, everything will fall apart (not that it isn’t already) and he’ll be facing time in court.

It has been six months. This man has turned this country into a far worse place than eight years of obstruction against President Obama ever did. The Republican health care bill is dead, yet McConnell plans to hold a vote on it next week, even though three GOP Senators have said they would vote against it. After seven years of trying to overturn the ACA, their plan just didn’t cut it.

Six months. This chaos cannot go on much longer. President temper-tantrum is not long for the office. This man shows no interest in the responsibility given to him, doesn’t know how to behave in a manner that speaks to the better angels of our society. This man, who never should have been elected in the first place, let alone nominated, is ruining our country faster than anyone ever thought possible.

We cannot take much more of this.

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