Attorney General Jeff Sessions says reports Mueller reassigned top FBI agent in Russia probe over anti-Trump texts 'would raise serious questions of public trust' https://t.co/w5TlRPQz26 pic.twitter.com/7SvtUqcQEh
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 3, 2017
Sessions testing limits of his recusal https://t.co/iczaHz5aYe
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2017
There’s been talk all week that Sessions “ought” to fire Mueller, and replace him with a (Repub-) “trustworthy” prosecutor. I personally doubt that’ll happen, because the blowback would be intense, and Sessions is having way too much fun pursuing his dreams of returning American society to the Fifties — the 1850s, for preference.
Can’t overemphasize what an unusual, political act this statement from Sessions is – in the middle of an IG investigation, about things he acknowledges aren’t proved, related to an underlying probe from which he is recused. https://t.co/rB5ifWaCrB
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) December 3, 2017
Imma also argue that Sessions *sudden* concern for "questions of public trust" might be more convincing if a) he didn't work for President Obstruction and b) hadn't perjured himself repeatedly in Congressional testimony in the last six months.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 3, 2017