Trump's reelection campaign manager calls for firing Sessions

Trump's reelection campaign manager calls for firing Sessions

By POLITICO STAFF
06/19/2018 01:51 PM EDT

Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, on Tuesday called for the ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and an end to special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling Russia probe.

In a terse tweet, Parscale said that the Justice Department’s recently released inspector general report on the handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation gives Trump all the evidence he needs to take the highly controversial actions.

“Time to fire Sessions End the Mueller investigation You can’t obstruct something that was phony against you The IG report gives @realDonaldTrump the truth to end it all,” Parscale wrote.

Trump and his allies have seized on the report to argue that the Mueller probe is hopelessly corrupt and that the findings exonerate the president. However, the main conclusion of the report was that political bias did not impact the outcome of the Clinton probe, but that former FBI director James Comey broke from protocol.

The report did not touch on the validity of the separate Mueller probe, which is examining whether Trump campaign aides colluded with Russian officials trying to sway the election and whether Trump tried to obstruct justice.

It's not clear how much sway Parscale's message will have on Trump. The president has long had a fraught relationship with Sessions and has regularly publicly criticized him for having recused himself from the Russia investigation.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...essions-654199

Enough of this crap. As a campaign adviser to the Trump campaign, Jeff Sessions rightfully recused himself from the Russian collusion probe. Now leave the man the hell alone and let him do his job fighting excessive immigration and illegal immigration!