1) Soooooo.... Sessions statement. I know @ThomasWictor is doing a thread right now, but I had a sudden thought. Note the key phrase, 'The Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.' This is actually longstanding DoJ policy.
2) "Simply put, politics must play no role in the decisions of federal investigators or prosecutors regarding any investigations or criminal charges." A memo from 2008, which was actually a memo that was RESENT from a memo from the Bush years. justice.gov/sites/default/…
3) "Law enforcement officers and prosecutors may never select the timing of investigative steps or criminal charges for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party."
4) Essentially, if prosecutions started landing NOW, about 2 1/2 months before the midterms, it would DEVASTATE the Democrats. Something which the Democrats could then use as a platform to claim they're being politically persecuted, and could drive their turnout numbers way up
5) Or, better yet, give them viable defenses against the prosecution. 'Oh, Sessions is just being Trump's good little Gestapo and crushing us poor political resistors underfoot!' You think ANTIFA is bad NOW? Imagine ANTIFA with an actual cause.
6) "I was resisting arrest because Trump's administration is trying to destroy their political opposition in the midterms, your honor, I swear!"
7) AFTER the midterms though? After midterms that, if everything else remains constant with the current trends the GOP should at least hold if not completely demolish the Dems?
8) It won't be the election year any more. There won't be voters that could be swayed one way or the other. That defense simply will not hold up in court. "Your honor, this isn't politically motivated, we specifically waited until AFTER the midterms as DoJ policy states..."
9) "To AVOID THE APPEARANCE OF POLITICAL INFLUENCE." What was a key phrase during the OIG reports? The appearance of political influence.
10) I'm not going to publicly come down on one side or the other for the Sessions thing. I think excessive fear mongering about Sessions is bad, but I understand where people on both sides of the argument are coming from, and they're both rational to one degree or another.
11) BUT, if we're removing emotion from the equation and looking at the facts as they currently exist: from day one of the Trump administration, it would have taken a LONG time to do the investigation required to put forth a lot of the indictments we want to see.
12) We HAVE seen the FBI and the DoJ cleared out or marginalize the ones who politicized the investigation. Also, note, we didn't actually ever SEE the Trump Dossier that was the 'evidence' until AFTER the election. I think that was intentional.
13) I think that was because the DoJ and FBI knew for a fucking FACT that they were hosed if they went public before the election with the Muh Russia crap, for the exact reason that we're seeing NOTHING for prosecutions that would annihilate the Democrats wholesale.
14) They're not allowed to pursue investigations for the sake of politics. They're not allowed to use their positions as political weapons during election years. The Comey FBI and the Lynch DoJ fucked up ROYALLY in that regard, but they were smart enough to not make it public.
15) Let's assume Sleepy Sessions is being a stickler for rules as he has announced. That he will not allow his investigations to be tainted by the appearance of political concerns. Then he WILL NOT allow the bombshells to land before the midterms.
16) Also, Mueller needs to be fucking fired for allowing his Special Counsel investigation to be politicized for a fucking year and for his prosecutions and those prosecutions he recommended turn into weapons meant to damage the GOP in the months leading up to the election.
17) He was around when the policies were FUCKING WRITTEN. There's no excuse for his investigation to have been politicized the way it has been. Just saying.
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