Eugene Robinson: Trump Wants an AG Who Will Be His ‘Bouncer’

RUSH EXCERPT:
ROBINSON: "This is ridiculous on one level. You point out. Is this a man he could fire anytime he wants. But I actually think that Hillary Clinton is right. I think that I will not fire Jeff Sessions before the election. Though he would like to. But he won’t because of the political ramifications and the fact that that would Republicans’ chances of keeping both houses of Congress. And afterwards win or lose, I think that he will fire Jeff Sessions. Because I think he wants an attorney general who will be his bouncer, you know, at the velvet ropes protecting him, not as he said when naming sessions, not protecting the United States, but protecting him. I think that is what he wants. And whether or not that person goes all the way and fires Rosenstein and Mueller and shuts the investigation down to the extent that he or she can, I don’t know. But I think that at the very least the idea would be to control it, to oversee it in a way that keeps it from harming the president, if all else fails to keep secret parts of the Mueller findings that really should be shared with the American people. And that Rosenstein and sessions probably will make public. But that a new attorney general might not."