USA Republican senators' pushback on president Trump's public humiliation of AG Sessions; Lindsay Graham: Trump is trying to turn democracy upside down
This New York Times article got published in The Hindu, a mainstream South India newspaper, today: Trump may let Sessions stay, for now, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/trump-may-let-sessions-stay-for-now/article19374144.ece, dated 28th July 2017.
The article mentions that some Senate Republicans are incensed over the (humiliating) treatment of USA Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a former Senate Republican colleague, by president Trump (publicly via critical tweets).
Sen. Bob Corker is reported to be strongly opposed to replacement of AG sessions during the coming recess (break) in USA Congress. Republican senators are reported to have said that they will block any such replacement move during the recess period.
Sen. John Cornyn said that removal of Sessions would be "incredibly disruptive".
Sen Lindsay Graham said, "I hope Jeff Sessions doesn’t give in to this humiliation campaign."
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Graham: Holy hell to pay if Sessions is fired, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCafpKcnBJA, 1 min. 11 secs, published by CNN, dated 27 July 2017.
The words of Republican Senator Lindsay Graham who serves on the judiciary committee, from the above video, are transcribed below.
I am a hundred percent behind Jeff Sessions. The chairman of the judiciary committee sent a pretty chilling tweet yesterday - There will be no confirmation hearing for a new Attorney General (in) 2017.
If Jeff Sessions is fired there will be holy hell to pay. Any effort to go after Mueller could be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency unless Mueller did something wrong.
This is not just a diversion. This is unnerving. It is unfair to Jeff Sessions who is a good man who deserves better. And some suggestions the .. president is making go way beyond what is acceptable in a rule of law nation. So I hope president will get good counsel and advice and focus on what he got elected to do which is change the culture in Washington. This is not draining the swamp. What he is interjecting is turning democracy upside down. Not taking political stale bodies and replacing them with new ideas but taking two hundred year concepts that we are a nation of .. laws not men and trying to turn it upside down.
-- end transcript of Graham words ---
The tweet referred above of Senate Judiciary committee chairman, Chuck Grassley, is this one: "Everybody in D.C. Shld b warned that the agenda for the judiciary Comm is set for rest of 2017. Judges first subcabinet 2nd / AG no way", https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/890365726825099271
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Seems to have parts of the same video above but from another angle, and has some additional words of Graham: Lindsey Graham Sounds Off: 'Holy Hell To Pay' If Jeff Sessions Is Fired | NBC News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYPpTfN1LS0, 2 min. 25 secs.
Please note that I have a PUBLICLY NEUTRAL informal-student-observer role in these posts that I put up about USA politics. Of course, as I am an Indian citizen living in India, there is no question of me having voted in USA elections.
[I thank New York Times and CNN, and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me referencing the above article and video from their website/youtube channel on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever.]
The article mentions that some Senate Republicans are incensed over the (humiliating) treatment of USA Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a former Senate Republican colleague, by president Trump (publicly via critical tweets).
Sen. Bob Corker is reported to be strongly opposed to replacement of AG sessions during the coming recess (break) in USA Congress. Republican senators are reported to have said that they will block any such replacement move during the recess period.
Sen. John Cornyn said that removal of Sessions would be "incredibly disruptive".
Sen Lindsay Graham said, "I hope Jeff Sessions doesn’t give in to this humiliation campaign."
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Graham: Holy hell to pay if Sessions is fired, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCafpKcnBJA, 1 min. 11 secs, published by CNN, dated 27 July 2017.
The words of Republican Senator Lindsay Graham who serves on the judiciary committee, from the above video, are transcribed below.
I am a hundred percent behind Jeff Sessions. The chairman of the judiciary committee sent a pretty chilling tweet yesterday - There will be no confirmation hearing for a new Attorney General (in) 2017.
If Jeff Sessions is fired there will be holy hell to pay. Any effort to go after Mueller could be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency unless Mueller did something wrong.
This is not just a diversion. This is unnerving. It is unfair to Jeff Sessions who is a good man who deserves better. And some suggestions the .. president is making go way beyond what is acceptable in a rule of law nation. So I hope president will get good counsel and advice and focus on what he got elected to do which is change the culture in Washington. This is not draining the swamp. What he is interjecting is turning democracy upside down. Not taking political stale bodies and replacing them with new ideas but taking two hundred year concepts that we are a nation of .. laws not men and trying to turn it upside down.
-- end transcript of Graham words ---
The tweet referred above of Senate Judiciary committee chairman, Chuck Grassley, is this one: "Everybody in D.C. Shld b warned that the agenda for the judiciary Comm is set for rest of 2017. Judges first subcabinet 2nd / AG no way", https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/890365726825099271
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Seems to have parts of the same video above but from another angle, and has some additional words of Graham: Lindsey Graham Sounds Off: 'Holy Hell To Pay' If Jeff Sessions Is Fired | NBC News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYPpTfN1LS0, 2 min. 25 secs.
Please note that I have a PUBLICLY NEUTRAL informal-student-observer role in these posts that I put up about USA politics. Of course, as I am an Indian citizen living in India, there is no question of me having voted in USA elections.
[I thank New York Times and CNN, and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me referencing the above article and video from their website/youtube channel on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever.]
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