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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1071789)	5/31/2018 2:27:36 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574096

While the Republican leadership has failed to act to formally protect Mueller, they have told the POTUS they won't approve a replacement for Sessions. The President can't fire or pardon his way out of jeopardy. ........ The theory has always gone that if Trump fired Sessions, he could appoint a new Attorney General who doesn’t have a conflict of interest, and who could retake control of the Trump-Russia investigation from Rosenstein, for the purpose of shutting it down. But partway through a lengthy New York Times article which otherwise largely just recaps how much Trump hates and abuses Sessions, there’s a key piece of information. It turns out the Senate Republican leadership told Donald Trump a long time ago that if he fired Jeff Sessions, they wouldn’t be willing to approve any new Attorney General in his place. The article doesn’t spell out the specific reason, but it’s not difficult to logically deduce. Sessions just finished spending decades in the Senate, and his GOP former colleagues there are trying to protect his job out of personal loyalty. So if Trump fired Jeff Sessions, there would be no new Attorney General. Rod Rosenstein would indefinitely become Acting Attorney General, and he would retain control of the investigation. Even if Trump then tried to fire Rosenstein, some other career DOJ official would become the new Acting AG by default. Trump wouldn’t be able to insert one of his cronies into the role. ............ palmerreport.com