{"id":178512,"date":"2018-11-07T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/07\/wednesday-afternoon-massacre\/"},"modified":"2018-11-07T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T01:26:00","slug":"wednesday-afternoon-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/07\/wednesday-afternoon-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Afternoon Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Trump Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/nov\/07\/jeff-sessions-fired-us-attorney-general\">fired US Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Something tells me that this was not caused by Trump suddenly &#8220;discovering&#8221; that Session is an unrepentant racist: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Senior Republicans led a chorus of public warnings that the special counsel Robert Mueller must be allowed to continue his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-russia-inquiry\">Russia investigation<\/a> after Donald Trump finally fired his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. <\/p>\n<p>As Trump replaced Sessions with a senior aide, Matthew Whitaker, a critic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-mueller\">Mueller<\/a>\u2019s inquiry, Senator Susan Collins was amongst the first Republicans to warn: \u201cIt is imperative that the Administration not impede the Mueller investigation \u2026 Special Counsel Mueller must be allowed to complete his work without interference.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney, who won the race on Tuesday to become a senator for Utah, aimed his first broadside at Trump, tweeting: \u201cIt is imperative that the important work of the Justice Department continues, and that the Mueller investigation proceeds to its conclusion unimpeded.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, like the Mueller investigation is going to be unimpeded.<\/p>\n<p>If I were Mueller, I&#8217;d find a pumpkin in which to stash a memory stick of his work to date.<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t rehabilitate Jeff Sessions because Trump fired him, he remains an evil racist demagogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Just fired US Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions. Something tells me that this was not caused by Trump suddenly &#8220;discovering&#8221; that Session is an unrepentant racist: Senior Republicans led a chorus of public warnings that the special counsel Robert Mueller must be allowed to continue his Russia investigation after Donald Trump finally fired his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,573,407,374,454],"class_list":["post-178512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-justice","tag-politics","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}