Jeff Sessions is in peril; so is America
What could happen if Donald Trump sacks his attorney-general
.. PERHAPS the only reason to doubt Donald Trump is contemplating sacking his attorney-general, Jeff Sessions, in order to protect himself and his associates from the counter-espionage investigation being run by Robert Mueller, is that the president has been so astonishingly upfront about it... Yet Mr Trump’s history of rule-breaking suggested he was indeed weighing a measure that would pitch his scandal-plagued presidency into its biggest crisis yet... it is also reasonable to assume that the president’s problem with Mr Sessions does not really concern the fact that he let the probe happen so much as that, because of his recusal, he cannot end it... The president has suggested some members of the counsel’s team of a dozen top-notch investigators are “conflicted”, perhaps because of past donations to Democrats (though Mr Trump was once a donor to them too)... the president will understand that sacking Mr Mueller, after first sacking Mr Sessions, would spark a backlash. How seriously he is contemplating it must therefore depend on how worried he is about what Mr Mueller might find.