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| Senator Ted Cruz being considered to replace Jeff Sessions |
| 2017-07-25 |
| [The Hill] President Trump and his advisers are floating possible replacements for Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- and the list includes Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), The Washington Post reports. Cruz and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) are reportedly among the candidates Trump’s team is considering to replace Sessions, though Giuliani said earlier in the day that he's not being considered. Trump has repeatedly said that he is disappointed by Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the probe into ties between the Trump administration and Russia, saying in an interview last week that he would have never hired Sessions if he knew he would recuse himself. Trump also slammed Sessions in a tweet Monday morning, asking why our "beleaguered A.G." wasn’t investigating ties between Hillary Clinton and Russia. Giuliani denied reports that he was up for Sessions’s spot earlier Monday and defended the attorney general’s decision to pull himself from the probe, saying it was "the right decision." Trump associates are viewing a possible Sessions ousting as a step toward firing special counsel Robert Mueller, according to the Post. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller to his post and has said he would not fire him, but a new attorney general would have the power to do so. Trump left the option open to fire Mueller in an interview with The New York Times last week. Cruz and Trump sparred often on the campaign trail when both were seeking the GOP nomination for president. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 They need to save Cruz for a Supreme Court vacancy that has to be coming. Would other Senators vote for him? How many do you think would like to get him out of the Senate? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-07-25 18:55 |
| #3 From your mouth to the ear of G*d, Butch. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-07-25 01:56 |
| #2 His son-in-law was hauled before congress yesterday, but don't ask Sessions about that, he excused himself from the witch hunt. Don't mess with the Don's family, kapisch? |
| Posted by: Butch Sheath9092 2017-07-25 01:52 |
| #1 Given the way Trump whales away at his subordinates, I'm seriously doubtful that Cruz (or anyone able) will step up. It's one thing for Trump to smack his enemies around. It's another for him to do so to his direct reports. He's not an absolute dictator. He can't make them serve on pain of death. The Apprentice is a TV show where nobodies are recruited with a chance to become big shots. The people in line for cabinet positions are already big shots. Trump can't humiliate his people and expect men of substance to step up. He needs to zip his trap about his guys, and focus his wrath on the Democrats. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2017-07-25 01:36 |