ICHEOKU says believing that former Attorney General Jeffrey Sessions has learnt his lesson that he should not have recused himself from the Russian Collusion investigation, fully aware that it was a sham, the president should forgive him and allow him to regain his Senate seat. Jeff Sessions was an insider of the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and knew the truth that there was no Russian Collusion of any kind, yet he recused himself anyway, thereby exposing President Donald John Trump to the hazards of the orchestrated Mueller's witch hunt. Luckily enough for the president, the Robert Mueller's investigation found no collusion and no obstruction of justice by the president; a matter made more significant in that Jeff Session had recused himself from supervising the investigation, thereby rending further credibility to the outcome of the Mueller expedition.
Had Jeff Session not recused himself and Mueller found as he did, the Democrats would insisted that Jeff Session influenced the investigation, the reason the outcome was exculpatory. It was therefore a double blessing for the president that Jeff Session recused himself and also that Mueller found nothing against him. The president survived a vicious and by far, the greatest witch hunt ever levied on a sitting American president by the Deep State. This should have ordinarily been a cause for celebration and enough for the president to just take his victory lap and gloat about it. But unfortunately, a still seething president wants to get his pound of flesh from everyone who had anything to do with the Russian Collusion hoax, including his former Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not holding the forte and abdicating from his duty post when it should have mattered most.
The main reason the president put Jeff Session in charge of the Justice Department was because he thought that Jeff Session was a dire hard loyalist, who will move mountains to ensure that the president was protected and shielded from whatever with hunt that might arise from the Justice Department. But when Jeff Sessions threw in the towel at the first salvo, he left the president unfairly exposed to the same bad elements he was trying to protect himself from by putting Jeff Sessions in charge of them, believing that he will get his back from their poisoned darts.
Also, according to the president, Jeff Sessions did not inform him about his plans to recuse himself and that during the interview for the job, he failed to disclose that he will recuse himself should such a situation arose that warrants that. So, it is easy to see where the president is coming from, feeling sabotaged by a man he trusted with the Justice Department, who left him bare when he should have vigorously protected him, fully aware that there was no Collusion with the Russians during the campaign in which he was himself fully involved. ICHEOKU says anyone faced with similar circumstances as the president would similarly feel betrayed and heavily disappointed in Jeff Sessions and that is the simple human truth.
The president eventually prevailed despite Jeff Sessions's failure to hold forte at the Justice Department, in defense of a president, who to his knowledge, was innocent of the Russian Collusion charges. So, going forward, it will be very difficult for the president or anyone in his shoes to trust such a person who will easily chicken out when the fight gets ugly and leave the president so vulnerable to the machinations of the anti Trump forces in the Justice Department. This is the reason the president is fighting to stop Jeff Sessions' planned comeback to the Senate, afraid that Jeff Sessions might gang up with Mitt Romney and other renegade Republicans In Name Only (RINO) in the Senate to thwart his political agenda. This fear is well founded, although Jeff Sessions is from the South and Alabama is a strong base of the president and he cannot afford to antagonize the president for a second time or make Alabama voters become mad at him.
ICHEOKU says the president should try and cash in on this and give Jeff Sessions a second chance at redeeming himself by ending the ongoing feud between them. The president does not have to trust Jeff Sessions or bring him closer to his inner circle again because trust once gone is gone forever. But at least, the president should compensate Jeff Sessions for the time he was a loyal soldier, being the first Senator to endorse the then candidate Trump when every other Republican Senator and top honchos of the party were reluctant to be even identified with the president. ICHEOKU strongly believes that Jeff Sessions meant well when he recused himself and did not intend to needlessly expose the president to the vagaries of the Mueller investigation, admitted it turned out that way.
Jeff is a loyalist and such politicians are very hard to find, as many politicians are risk averse to backing controversial figures and are always hedging their loyalty based on convenient political calculus, usually swayed as political wind blows. Jeff Sessions is an exception to the rule and this should make the president forgive him and allow Jeff Sessions to return to the Senate by ending the current attack on him and his support of Jeff's opponent. Times like this require seasoned political operatives in the Senate to help Majority Leader Mitch McConnell continue to navigate the Senate and keep the president's agenda aloft. Politics is a game of interests and the interest of Jeff Session aligns perfectly well with the president's, so the president should let the matter lie and let Jeff Sessions conduct his comeback election bid in peace.
ICHEOKU is afraid that if the feud continues, the Republican Party in Alabama might become split once again and the bad blood will get so bad that the party might again lose the seat to the Democrats. It happened in 2017 and it might repeat itself in November; so in the interest of party unity and in order to regain the senate seat, President Donald John Trump should reach out and welcome Jeff Sessions back; withdraw his support for Jeff Sessions' opponent and allow Jeff Sessions to regain his seat and return back to the Senate. Jeff Sessions earned the right to do so, he sacrificed that seat for the sake of the president and the president in return should help him to regain that seat. One good turn deserves another. Let Jeff Sessions not only be judged by the mistake of his recusal, but by the totality of his being and his support for the president. He was a good AG and zealously pursued border policing, drugs interdiction as well as MS13 gangs, three major policy initiatives of the president. Enough of the bickering.
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