Rudy Giuliani for Attorney General? Trump Reportedly Considering Ex-NYC Mayor

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite




by Aidan McLaughlin | 9:59 am, July 24th, 2017

President Donald Trump is considering replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions with former campaign adviser Rudy Giuliani, according to a new report from Mike Allen at Axios.

The president has publicly voiced his displeasure with Sessions, and Axios described Trump’s “fury” directed at the attorney general after he recused himself from the Russia investigation.

Trump bashed Sessions — who was one of the first Republican lawmakers to back his long-shot bid for the presidency — in an interview with The New York Times last week, and took to Twitter Monday morning to ask why the attorney general was not investigating Hillary Clinton.

Following Trump’s comments, speculation again ignited that Sessions would resign from his post — rumors the attorney general shot down in a press conference.






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[underpants]

1. That's management folks! Who doesn't like having their job discussed publicly?

Nothing gets people fired up for work like having their possible replacement talked about right in front of them.

[SCantiGOP]

43. I had totally discounted this possibility until........

I just saw that Giuliani said that Sessions was right in recusing himself. This sounds like the type of amateurish trick Trump would play to be able to claim that he doesn't require complete, abject loyalty from everyone he appoints.
He sure couldn't get a better lackey that Rudy to help him obstruct justice.

[SayItLoud]

2. tRUMP is so obvious

He's going to keep slamming Sessions until he resigns and then put his punk Rudy up for the gig.

[jayfish]

4. And then order him to...

fire Mueller. Firing Mueller is what this is all about. It has little to do with Sessions.

[Old Vet]

21. Bingo, Firing mueller is his number one agenda currently...

Iam not a betting man buy I would bet money sessions has a limited time left as AG. My prediction Hmmmm is within two weeks sessions will be replaced with someone also in love with trump.

[George II]

3. Giuliani has more skeletons than 10 Jeff Sessions.

[Kathy M]

17. This ......... I would also like to add a few otehr people have skeletons also , I do not think

Trump means anything by this tweet but is sending message of sorts ..... just a hunch ......

edit to add or just plain trolling ..........

[FakeNoose]

25. Sure he does, and I doubt he'd get approved by the Senate

... but so much time will be wasted while Mueller keeps digging.

Trump's time is running out and he knows it. Sessions is hanging on for dear life and I'm sure he's doing it on purpose. Sooner or later Jeffy-boy will be fired, and then Giuliani (or somebody) will pass the loyalty oath. But he still needs to be approved by the Senate and that's not a given. Especially Giuliani is not a given - they'll toast him for lunch.

Meanwhile Mueller keeps finding more stuff and it's all coming together.

[Hortensis]

30. Including connections with Russia. Lol! They don't have to

be potentially actionable, but I suspect Rump might actually regards them as a plus. Another body that could be tossed off the wagon to the wolves.

"Axios’s con goes far deeper than simply disguising corporate PR as journalism; it wants to redefine the very meaning of news until it is fundamentally indistinguishable from PR." (My, hasn't the Kochs' investment, Axios, become really big really suddenly? Quoted all over the place, elbowing out others.)

[NCjack]

38. After Mueller finishes with Ghuliani, he will never get Senate confirmation for anything. nt

[Hortensis]

39. Thank goodness. But he could serve as a distraction,

perhaps gain some time for some purpose, and of course be a martyr proving yet again the "left-wing" "deep-state" "fascist" suppression of the will of the people. Lot of that last going around these days.

[NCjack]

40. I expect Ghouliani to be revealed as a member of the chain of leakers that were

serving Trump during the campaign by leaking details of the FBI's investigation of Hillary's emails.

[Hortensis]

44. Every easy to believe that. Wonder if he knows anything

about Comey's dragging the investigation out and then revving it up in the final summer of the election? We need to know if the director of our FBI was actively conspiring with others.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Egads.

What a corrupt worm.

[Chasstev365]

6. Makes Sense

You have to bring another co-conspiritor to cover your crimes. Who better than Rudy G?

[Javaman]

7. oh great it would be...

"what ya say?" working for "whose that?"

two guys going around the bend.

[Roy Rolling]

8. What?!

All the phony Fox News expert judges are all booked? Judge Pirro or Napalitano should reconsider, it's likely to be a very short gig.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Oh hell no

Ghouliani has baggage out the wazoo, although it could be because he is probably neck deep in Russia himself (notably since he was mayor when the Russian mob infested the city and his "cyber security" company was probably linked somehow to the election hacks), so he would have a reason to fight against any investigation. However he could (and should) get nailed himself.

[Doug the Dem]

10. Attention Whore Considers Other Attention Whore for Attorney General

That should be the headline!

[Dopers_Greed]

11. You can't get any more of a sycophant than Ghouliani

[Still In Wisconsin]

12. He's going to purge his cabinet of anyone who isn't seen as being 110% loyal to TRUMP.

In wonder if there's anyone he wouldn't throw under the bus. Sessions was pretty damn loyal and supportive.

I guess this is just about making the investigation disappear. Ghouliani is, I'm sure, willing to do that.

[thesquanderer]

13. I figured that would be Trump's obvious pick...

...but I'm not sure Rudy would want to subject himself to the confirmation process, which could be quite a spectacle!

[dem4decades]

15. he'd legally have to recuse himself anyway. Haha

I made a joke, I said legally.

[dembotoz]

14. well rex had some signs of competence...gotta fix that

[INdemo]

16. Surely Giuliani could never be confirmed ..could he?

[neohippie]

18. I hope he's investigated too

Giuliani has ties to Trump Russia, money laundering and even Turkey's lobbying like Flynn


https://dutchreview.com/news/international-news/trump-money-laundering-in-the-netherlands/



http://www.startribune.com/judge-in-iran-sanctions-case-homes-in-on-giuliani-trump-ties/422366073/



http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170515/POLITICS/170519933/judge-eyes-giuliani-trump-ties

[riversedge]

23. Yup. Trump would be digging into his stinking sewer to dig up Rudy.

[denbot]

19. Giuliani went dark about the same time the Russian investigation got hot.

Me thinks the Goul was warned by his FBI sources to STFU, and keep his head down. I doubt if he would accept a cabinet chair that was fully engulfed in flames.

[jpak]

31. yup

n/t

[canetoad]

41. I also suspect

Guiliani will have more than a cameo part in Eric Schneiderman's NY investigation.

[TeamPooka]

20. hahaha Jeff Sessions gave up his forever-for-life Senate seat for this clown. lol

[riversedge]

22. ...And in a Monday morning tweet, Trump referred to "our beleaguered A.G." not investigating Hillary

Someone must be tweeting for him. beleaguered to too big of word for bully trump.


...........And in a Monday morning tweet, Trump referred to "our beleaguered A.G." not investigating Hillary Clinton.

Link to tweet

[Mad_Mongol]

24. Bottom of the barrel

Trump would do better to nominate Chris Christie, he at least have *some* friends.

It's not a given that a Trump nominee can get confirmed in the Senate for AG at this point. No sane Democrat would vote to confirm, and any three out of {McCain, Graham, Collins, Heller, Burr, Portman, Paul, Murkowski} may really relish the opportunity to embarrass Trump.

And this is before question of Russia over Country are asked.

[LudwigPastorius]

26. I despise Rudy, but...

I don't think he's dumb enough to tie the rotting carcass of the Trump presidency around his neck at this point.

He might have taken the job back in January, but now...?

[AJT]

27. I hope sessions makes 45 fire him.

[VigilantG]

28. Good luck confirming Giuliani

But I think all Drumpf's blustering is just more of the same game. Distraction. I believe this just as much as Pence was lied to by Flynn.

[KRISITNA]

29. DO IT! If Guiliani is hired and fires Mueller it's the end of the road for 45.

[Texin]

32. It'd be nice to believe that, but I don't think that's what'd happen.

I don't think the rethugs are going to do anything about 'trumplethinskin'. They'll let the orange cretin run through the entire Federal Justice Department, fring the last person standing until there's nobody left to even sweep the floors. McConnell is not going to do anything about the shitgibbon. Nothing. Nada.

[RKP5637]

33. Hmmmm, when's he gonna go for Chris Christie. n/t

[Jimbo101]

34. 12/9/16 - "Giuliani Removes Himself From Contention for Any Trump Admin. Post" - ABC News

Has something changed ?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/giuliani-removes-contention-trump-administration-post/story?id=44096384

[halobeam]

35. K & R n/t

[Gothmog]

36. Rudy would be a horrible choice

[L. Coyote]

37. Replce the co-conspirator who got caught lying with another co-conspirator. Yeah, good luck w/that.

I'm sure Rudy wants to join the obstruction indictment as a fellow defendant ....

I doubt Trump can find a new AG right now. His lawyers are jumping ship.

[DeminPennswoods]

42. Just goes to show...

good flunkies are hard to find.

Even a toadying toady like Sessions can't cut it.

[orangecrush]

45. So we will have the mob

Running the DOJ.

What else did you expect?