{"id":95624,"date":"2018-02-28T19:28:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=95624"},"modified":"2018-02-28T19:29:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:29:39","slug":"its-time-for-ag-sessions-to-go-and-the-sooner-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=95624","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time for AG Sessions to go, and the sooner the better."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>AG Sessions Responds To Trump&#8217;s Twitter Taun<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>It looks like all those Saturday Night Live sketches portraying Jeff Sessions as an obsequious diminutive imp have gotten to the attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>In a stiffly-worded response to President Trump &#8211; who\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-02-28\/trump-blasts-sessions-disgraceful-investigation-fisa-abuses\">earlier today<\/a>\u00a0castigated the AG for ordering the Justice Department&#8217;s inspector general, an Obama-era holdover, to investigate FISA abuses &#8211; Sessions defended his handling of the FISA investigation by saying he followed the &#8220;appropriate process&#8221; by ordering the IG to investigate and that, as long as he remains attorney general, he will &#8220;continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AG SESSIONS STATEMENT: \u201cWe have initiated the appropriate process that will ensure complaints against this Department will be fully and fairly acted upon if necessary&#8230;.&quot; (1\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MXsl6QF0r3\">https:\/\/t.co\/MXsl6QF0r3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Levine (@adamlevinecnn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamlevinecnn\/status\/968915894058541057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AG SESSIONS STATEMENT CT&#39;D:  &quot;As long as I am the Attorney General, I will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor, and this Department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and Constitution. \u201c (2\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MXsl6QF0r3\">https:\/\/t.co\/MXsl6QF0r3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Levine (@adamlevinecnn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamlevinecnn\/status\/968915993602023424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Of course, as one twitter user reminds us, Senate Republicans have said they will not confirm another AG nominee if Sessions is forced out.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/Hydraman40Black\/status\/968917036448534529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2018-02-28%2Fag-sessions-responds-trumps-twitter-taunt<\/p>\n<p>The statement elicited a wave of incredulous responses from twitter users, who were surprised by Sessions&#8217; strongly worded response.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The statement is a remarkable public response from Sessions to another critical comment from President Trump directed at him and the Justice Department<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steve Brusk (@stevebruskNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevebruskNews\/status\/968917066743975936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>His response begs the question: Will their spat end here? Or will we soon hear from a (no doubt infuriated) Trump?<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-02-28\/ag-sessions-responds-trumps-twitter-taunt\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-02-28\/ag-sessions-responds-trumps-twitter-taunt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AG Sessions Responds To Trump&#8217;s Twitter Taun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}