GOP’s Shameless New Plan: Bulldoze Sessions in Order to Get Rid of Mueller
Nevertheless, Republicans persist in protecting a man they all know to be unfit to lead, and possibly even compromised by a foreign adversary. On Thursday, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, charter members of what was once considered to be the most principled conservative organization in the Congress, the House Freedom Caucus, took to the pages of The Washington Examiner to demand that Attorney General Jeff Sessions resign. Why? Because the Russia investigation must be shut down.
It’s seems like an odd request, considering that Sessions is recused from that probe, but Meadows and Jordan suggest that the attorney general is allowing FBI and Department of Justice employees to leak false stories to the media and that unless he’s willing to take those agencies in hand, he must step down. They blow a bit of smoke about the details of the George Papadopoulos case relayed to The New York Times last week and pretend that they are concerned about the integrity of the FBI. But since it’s an open secret that Trump is still fulminating about Sessions recusing himself from the Russia investigation, it’s obvious they are doing the bidding of their unstable leader by keeping the pressure on Sessions. Maybe they hope he’ll take some action to rein in Robert Mueller’s investigation, despite his recusal. Or maybe they’re just trying to make Trump feel better.
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