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If I were U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions — and I am so glad I am not<\/em> — I would be looking for a new job.<\/p>\n

As in right now. Immediately if not sooner. But I am not altogether certain a new attorney general would serve the public interest as it regards an ongoing investigation into the president’s 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n

The president of the United States, Donald John Trump, has tweeted once again that he regrets picking the former Republican senator from Alabama to be the nation’s top law enforcement officer.<\/p>\n

Why is that? Oh, it’s just Sessions decided to do the right thing<\/a> by recusing himself from any Justice Department investigation into the Russia matter and the Russians’ meddling in our 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

I am no fan of the AG, but on this matter he made precisely the correct decision. He had served on Trump’s political team; he was central to the president-elect’s transition to the presidency. Had he remained involved in the Russia matter, he would have been in charge of investigating himself.<\/em> How does the attorney general do such a thing without compromising\u00a0 a sensitive and complex investigation? He cannot. That’s why he bailed on the Russia probe and turned it over to his deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump, though, keeps yapping that he should have picked someone else to lead the DOJ, had he known Sessions was going to recuse himself.<\/p>\n

Sessions might be inclined to want out. But there’s this thing involving the integrity of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Would a new AG be as faithful to the appearance of conflict of interest that Sessions was when he recused himself?<\/p>\n

Hey, maybe Jeff Sessions ought to wait for Trump to fire<\/em> him.<\/p>\n

Then he can watch along with the rest of us as the crap hits the fan.<\/p>\n\n

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