{"id":16672,"date":"2017-07-22T17:48:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T00:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16672"},"modified":"2017-07-22T17:48:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T00:48:23","slug":"nothing-new-to-report-about-the-man-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/07\/22\/nothing-new-to-report-about-the-man-in-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"nothing new to report about the man in the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh. \u00c2\u00a0Yeah. \u00c2\u00a0The big gossip coming out of Washington. \u00c2\u00a0And. \u00c2\u00a0Wait. \u00c2\u00a0Wait. \u00c2\u00a0Brash talk from Donald Trump, assailing his key aides?<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 Like, we can’t see this in his history anywhere.
\n(He does have that bit of Lyndon Johnson doing important business with anyone he wants to powertrip over while doing important business by doing so while\u00c2\u00a0sitting on the toilet about him.)<\/p>\n

It turned out to be a preview of\u00c2\u00a0even more cutting remarks<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Mr. Trump would make two days later in an interview with The New York Times: an extraordinary public expression of dissatisfaction with one of his top aides based on Mr. Sessions\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision in March\u00c2\u00a0to recuse himself<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0from the expanding federal investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite Mr. Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s avowal\u00c2\u00a0in the interview<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0that he would not have picked Mr. Sessions if he had known he would recuse himself, Mr. Sessions said on Thursday that he intended to serve \u00e2\u20ac\u0153as long as that is appropriate.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, tried to moderate her boss\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s remarks, telling reporters later, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Clearly, he has confidence in him, or he would not be the attorney general.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

But even if Mr. Sessions remains in his job, the relationship between him and Mr. Trump \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the Alabama lawyer and the Queens real estate developer, an odd couple bound by a shared conviction that illegal immigration is destroying America \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is unlikely to ever be the same, according to a half-dozen people close to Mr. Trump. And this is not the typical Trump administration feud.<\/em><\/p>\n

I can’t wait to see the National Enquirer dossier on Jeff Sessions any day now, and how Donald Trump is just “leading the charge” somehow, and a new demonization of Jeff Sessions to match that of everyone else.<\/p>\n

Mr. Stone listed a chain of events Mr. Trump often ticks off against Mr. Sessions: Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein took over the Russia investigation after Mr. Sessions\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recusal, which led to the appointment of Robert S. Mueller III, a former F.B.I. director,\u00c2\u00a0as special counsel, which, in turn, led to irrepressible presidential rage.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The president initially bonded with Sessions because he saw him as a tough guy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mr. Stone, who has urged Mr. Sessions to investigate Obama-era officials instead of Trump campaign operatives. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s saying: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my tough guy? Why doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t he have my back?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lack of aggressiveness with Sessions, unless it involves chasing people for smoking pot<\/strong>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added, referring to the attorney general\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent focus on marijuana offenses largely ignored under President Barack Obama.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sure. Like you can’t see from his record what Session’s priorities as Attorney General would be. \u00c2\u00a0But Wait. \u00c2\u00a0Where does this lead Trump on the pot issue? \u00c2\u00a0If Trump could get new appointee Tommy Chong (granted, not “tough” in any traditional definition of the term) to promise to do everything in his power to sweep away the “Russian mess”, would this end the Drug War?<\/p>\n

Like, I want to get something out of the Trump mess, don’t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh. \u00c2\u00a0Yeah. \u00c2\u00a0The big gossip coming out of Washington. \u00c2\u00a0And. \u00c2\u00a0Wait. \u00c2\u00a0Wait. \u00c2\u00a0Brash talk from Donald Trump, assailing his key aides?\u00c2\u00a0 Like, we can’t see this in his history anywhere. (He does have that bit of Lyndon Johnson doing important business with anyone he wants to powertrip over while doing important business by doing so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16673,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16672\/revisions\/16673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}