After Another Trump Attack on Jeff Sessions, Senator Ben Sasse Hits a Mic Drop Moment

So on Monday we talked about the president’s latest Twitter attack against his beleaguered attorney general, Jeff Sessions.

President Trump decided to grouse and snipe over the Department of Justice’s announcement of charges being brought against two early Trump supporters, Representatives Chris Collins (R-NY) and Duncan Hunter (R-CA).

In early August, Collins (the first sitting congressman to jump the Trump train) was charged with securities fraud and lying to the FBI about it. He engaged in insider trading, by tipping off family members to nonpublic stock information, in an effort to give them an upper hand in their investments.

He’s claiming innocence, but still suspended his reelection campaign.

The second congressman, Duncan Hunter, along with his wife, was charged in the latter part of August with using around $250,000 in campaign funds for personal needs.

He used it to pay for his kids’ tuition, for dental work, international trips for around a dozen of his family members, golf outings, fast food, and a few other not-at-all-campaign-related purposes.

He then falsified the reports to the Federal Election Commission to account for the missing funds.

Sessions did his job, as the top law enforcement officer in the land.

Trump, however, saw his partisanship, and worst yet, the loss of two who would protect him.

Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff……

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2018

….The Democrats, none of whom voted for Jeff Sessions, must love him now. Same thing with Lyin’ James Comey. The Dems all hated him, wanted him out, thought he was disgusting – UNTIL I FIRED HIM! Immediately he became a wonderful man, a saint like figure in fact. Really sick!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2018

So President Trump feels that because the investigations began while Barack Obama was still president, Sessions and the DOJ should just let them go?

That’s not how law and order work, Mr. President.

Let’s be clear about what Trump is saying with these tweets.

He wants there to be some sort of partisan qualifiers put on the law. He feels Collins and Hunter should get a pass for their crimes, simply because the investigations began under Obama. Also, because prosecuting these cases could risk a Republican majority in the House.

Again – not how the law works.

Sadly, we’ve seen on far too many occasions that there are few in the Republican party with the guts to call out Trump for his blatant disregard for his duties or with doing the right thing. Why should this be any different?

In this instance, however, Sessions is not left twisting in the wind. A sitting Republican senator quickly spoke up to defend the department against Trump’s latest act of obstruction lunacy.

Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, of course, has become a reliable voice in calling out the President. This was a case that desperately required an answer.

In a statement, Senator Sasse nailed it.

“The United States is not some banana republic with a two-tiered system of justice – one for the majority party and one for the minority party,” Sasse responded in a statement.

“These two men have been charged with crimes because of evidence, not because of who the President was when the investigations began,” he continued.

“Instead of commenting on ongoing investigations and prosecutions, the job of the President of the United States is to defend the Constitution and protect the impartial administration of justice.”

In a word – BOOM.

It is not the attorney general’s job to run interference for the president or the party. It is the job of the attorney general to uphold the laws of this nation, with no regards for the political ramifications.

I don’t know which is sadder: that Trump doesn’t know this or that Jeff Sessions didn’t realize what Trump would expect of him, once he took the job as attorney general.