Jeff Sessions wimps out

| 2:04 pm EDT March 30, 2018
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For months many vocal Republicans in Congress have been screaming about alleged improprieties by top members of the FBI. While this is clearly a partisan attempt to distract from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump’s Russia scandal, it has resulted in recent elevated demands for a second Special Counsel to investigate Mueller’s team and the FBI. This notion started gaining momentum on conspiracy theory shows such as those of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. Top members of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of far right Tea-Party Republicans, are daily guests on Hannity’s show, spreading lies and propaganda. Senators Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley have joined in the call for a second Special Counsel.

In a win for justice, and a huge loss for Trump and his supporters, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced that he will not appoint a second Special Counsel. Sessions announced that the US Attorney in Utah, John Huber, has been looking into the supposed misdoings of the FBI. Huber, who was appointed by President Obama in 2015, actually resigned after Trump’s inauguration but was reappointed to his position shortly thereafter by Trump. While those demanding a second Special Counsel will certainly be upset about this, and will likely say that since he was originally appointed by Obama he can’t be trusted, they must be reminded that Trump was the one who gave him his job back.

If you’re able to stomach more than a couple minutes of the Hannity show, you would surely hear talk about Uranium One. This conspiracy theory has been debunked numerous times, even by some on Fox News, yet Hannity refuses to drop the issue. As Palmer Report previously documented, Hannity had conversations with Paul Manafort that may have been picked up by American Intelligence agencies, meaning he may be wrapped up in the Trump-Russia conspiracy as well. His last hope of avoiding prosecution may have been to hopefully smear Mueller and the FBI in order to discredit the investigation itself. The best way to accomplish that was to get a second Special Counsel to try to fabricate some sort of skeletons in the closet of lifelong public servants. Now that Jeff Sessions has refused to appoint one, Hannity and Trump know there’s nothing left to save them.