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Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46132348
"US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been fired by President Donald Trump.
[...] Mr Trump said Mr Sessions will be temporarily replaced by his chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, who has criticised the Russia inquiry.
[...] In a resignation letter, Mr Sessions - a former Alabama senator who was an early supporter of Mr Trump - made clear the decision to go was not his own.
[...] The president cannot directly fire the special counsel, whose investigation Mr Trump has repeatedly decried as a witch hunt. But Mr Sessions' replacement will have the power to fire Mr Mueller or end the inquiry.
[...] Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he looks forward to 'working with President Trump to find a confirmable, worthy successor so that we can start a new chapter at the Department of Justice'.
Mr Graham, of South Carolina, had said last year there would be 'holy hell to pay' if Mr Sessions was ever fired."
[...] House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said: "It is impossible to read Attorney General Sessions' firing as anything other than another blatant attempt by President Trump to undermine & end Special Counsel Mueller's investigation."
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns
Jeff Sessions is out. The new Acting Attorney General is Matthew G. Whitaker:
President Donald Trump on Wednesday fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions. "At your request I am submitting my resignation," Sessions wrote in a letter to White House chief of staff John Kelly.
Matthew Whitaker will take over as acting attorney general, the President said. Whitaker is expected to take charge of the Russia investigation and special counsel Robert Mueller from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Whitaker has been openly critical of Mueller and the investigation and Democrats immediately called on him to recuse himself, just as Sessions had.
See also: New acting A.G. criticized Mueller probe several times
What does Jeff Sessions's firing mean for Mueller and the Trump-Russia inquiry?
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(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday November 08 2018, @04:14PM (8 children)
> I've never had a boss who wasn't a sociopath.
Don't give Trump excuses.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 08 2018, @06:03PM (7 children)
Don't act like that's a special state of affairs.
Sociopaths belong in a leper colony in the South Pacific, not running our banks, companies, or governments.
As sociopaths go, however, this particular sociopath (accepting the premise that he is a sociopath, for the sake of argument) has done more of what he promised than any other sociopath I've ever seen in government. He did kill the TPP. That is still worth the price of all the rest. He has levied tariffs against China and others who have been taking advantage of lopsided trade agreements for years. He has tried to use the bully pulpit to bring manufacturing back to America. Nobody else has even tried for 30 years. He has taken measures to secure the borders and get tough on illegal immigration; now, that's not an issue I care about but it is something he promised to work on, and he has. He has been a staunch supporter of Israel (again, I couldn't care less about Israel but he promised he'd be a strong supporter and he has been). He promised to get tough on North Korea, and he did. He promised to get tough on Iran, and he did.
Maybe those things are desirable, and maybe they aren't, but he did promise to do something about them, and he has.
Personally, I am disgruntled he has not made good on his promise to put Hillary in jail or to drain the Swamp.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @07:55PM
Wow, so you built up the online-persona just for these time period? I had a feeling you'd turn this way, but wow it still surprises.
I wasn't sad to see the TPP go, but now it seems likely that all it will do is cut the US out of a variety of trade deals and harm us economically in the long run. I could excuse that ONE item, but then you go on about trump trying to bring back jobs?
My bet is on you being yet another fake user account. Using the background of a seriously disgruntled Democrat who was personally hurt by the Clintons was a good move. You could vent your true feelings while pretending to be something else.
You liars should ashamed of yourselves, but hey you probably don't even realize YOU are on of the sociopaths.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @08:04PM (1 child)
I had a post written up that disproved every single point you made while adding additional things Drumpf fucked up during his first 2 years in office but soylentnews took a dump. So rather than waste another 10 minutes I'll just point out the obvious: You're a fucking idiot if you actually believe your own shit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @10:54PM
Yup, he suffers from CDS and Trump won him over with his "lock her up" chants.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @08:15PM
So he did everything he promised to do, except the things of merit.
Of as the doctors say, the operation was a success but the patient has died.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @08:23PM
Provisions from the TPP are actually being inserted into the USMCA. So much for that.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Friday November 09 2018, @01:27AM
Yeah, about that.. Trump’s Tariffs Have Fully Kicked In—Yet China’s Exports Grow [wsj.com]
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @04:35AM
> He has levied tariffs against China and others who have been taking advantage of lopsided trade agreements for years. He has tried to use the bully pulpit to bring manufacturing back to America.
Unfortunately, some of the manufacturing that has come back to USA (before Trump) relies on Asian-made parts. The tariffs have been hell on these small companies.
Here's one, a rugged-ized tablet assembler, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/1/buffalo-tablet-maker-bak-usa-suddenly-shuts-ak-usa/ [washingtontimes.com]
Not Foxconn, but not nothing either, they were training people that have often been given up on. Longer story in Buffalo News, but couldn't find it easily.