Quote from: theymos_away on November 07, 2018, 08:31:19 PM

Good, Sessions is a terrible person. I knew from the start that he'd be in Trump's initial administration, and I hated it. I hope he stays out of politics for good.

Trump's first priority in AG will be loyalty. Rand Paul has been careful to appear 100% personally loyal to Trump (while still expressing disagreements), and could conceivably be asked; while he's probably in a better position as senator, he'd be a very good AG.

I wouldn't be shocked if Trump picked one of his sons, even though that'd look super bad. Or Guiliani, maybe.

A really good political move would be to appoint a registered Democrat who has so far resisted the Russia hysteria. But it's unlikely.

Trump is bad at picking people, so the new AG might end up causing him the same issues. But it'll be difficult to find someone worse for the country than Sessions.

Hm. But going back to Sessions, he's probably one of the most unpopular picks ever (due to views on Marijuana, etc) Was a pretty dumb pick.

I mean I really can see the reasons for people thinking Giulini, but that seems like too large of a conflict of interest. It's pretty much the same one that Sessions had and caused him to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. This COI is the fact that they both have a bias towards Trump, and they both worked on the Trump campaign.

Of course, anyone he picks is going to have a tad bit of a conflict of ensuring the investigation is done without Trump fighting it -- but there is a way to attempt to limit this.

With that said, I could see Lindsey in the role -- he seems like a pretty solid pick and a loyalist to Trump.

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Matt Whittaker is the interim AG.

You can see his position on the Mueller investigation he's been quite vocal about it.

Sessions just became a witness in the Mueller investigation haha!

Rosenstien is next? He's on his way to the WH for a pre-scheduled meeting.

Wednesday massacre?

Rosenstein is on the way out cause he wasn't working with the House GOP before. He slowwalked a good amount of paperwork. Maybe he'll salvage his job, maybe he won't. Who knows.