OPINION:
A couple of Republicans called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step down this week.
And nice as Sessions seems — these Republicans have a point.
Sessions never should have recused himself from the Russia collusion investigation when he did, months ago.
Since, the whole matter has spun past Witch Hunt Haven, headstrong into Gimme a Break Bullhawky.
Bluntly put, Sessions, by both mooting and muting himself early in the game, only ratcheted the left’s fury and constant calls for impeachment. Sessions may have thought he was taking a high road. But Democrats saw his principled step-down as a personal and political win, and they bared bloody teeth to try and grab even more.
Now, we have a real mess.
Reps. Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, the chairman and former chairman, respectively, of the House Freedom Caucus, said as much in an opinion piece to the Washington Examiner in which they called out the “manufactured hysteria” that’s resulted in this whole Russia collusion thang — and pointed fingers squarely Sessions’ way.
“In spite of the constant headlines, rampant speculation and overshadowing of accomplishments, a simple truth remains: There is no evidence of any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians,” the congressmen wrote. “And let’s be clear: The absence of evidence is not due to a lack of examination.”
They also ask why the FBI never interviewed former Trump campaign adviser George Papadoploulos until January of 2017. This is the guy, according to a recent New York Times piece, who was basically the catalyst for the FBI’s July 2016 launch of an investigation into campaign-tied Russia-Trump collusion.
Seems an important dude to question, yes?
“If Sessions can’t address this issue immediately, then we have one final question needing an answer,” Meadows and Jordan wrote. “When is it time for a new attorney general? Sadly, it seems the answer is now.”
Powerful words.
But seriously, Sessions has taken himself out of the picture on the biggest media-driven, leftist-fueled matter to hit this White House. You think an attorney general serving a Democratic administration would have similarly recused?
You think Eric Holder would have? Loretta Lynch?
Nope. And that’s what makes Sessions’ own stand-down so frustrating. It’s one thing to mount a principled horse. It’s another thing entirely to ride the horse straight off the battlefield.
And sadly, that’s what Sessions did in his first weeks as attorney general.
Once again: Meadows and Jordan have a solid point. This administration needs a warrior at Justice — not a kitten.
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