Jeff Sessions

Matthew Whitaker will become acting AG until Trump can win a confirmation for Sessions' replacement.  Whitaker will also assume control of the Mueller probe, replacing Rod Rosenstein. Whitaker previously criticized the investigation for venturing outside its scope.

Trump wasted no time after the midterm elections to warn Democrats (ready to take over the House) that should they drag the country back towards Russia collusion hoaxes, tax return fantasies, or impeachment procedures, that this time the office of the President, along with a strengthened Senate, would strike back at Democrat leadership.
First order of business for Trump, fire Jeff Sessions and appoint as acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.

Republicans in Maine did a lot of losing yesterday. Eric Brakey tried taking out Angus King and got 35.2% of the vote for his effort. Chellie Pingree was reelected to the House with 58.9% of the vote. Republican Mark Holbrook took just under a third of the vote-- 106,750 (32.3%).

Trumpanzee, always delighted to play the fool and play the victim, whined during a Hill.TV interview that "I don’t have an attorney general. It’s very sad." Get me a box of tissues, quick. "I’m not happy at the border, I’m not happy with numerous things, not just this... I’m so sad over Jeff Sessions because he came to me. He was the first senator that endorsed me. And he wanted to be attorney general, and I didn’t see it.

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Did you ever doubt that Trumpanzee called Jeff Sessions a retard? Why? Once Melania almost left him because, referring to his youngest son's autism on Howard Stern's radio show, he called Barron a retard. After she flipped out, he said he didn't mean Barron, but Donald, Jr.

Nancy Ohanian: Emperor With Fig LeafYesterday, Bernie was at an AFL-CIO Labor Day breakfast in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he told the crowd that Señor Trumpanzee is a "pathological liar." What's the difference between a pathological liar and a congenital liar? Bernie also reminded the folks that Trump "works night and day on behalf of his fellow billionaires...

Via Zerohedge…

I first heard about the Politico Jeff Sessions story that included a bit about how Trump hates Sessions' southern accent, on Wednesday evening on either Maddow's show or The Last Word. I instantly understood what that meant, what was behind it.

So it wasn't just Lindsay Graham leading the charge on the right to allow Trump to seamlessly rid himself of Jeff Sessions with no noisy consequences from the base. Jerry Falwell had a son, Jerry, Jr., and some people bill him as "a top conservative religious leader." On Monday, Jr.