{"id":384642,"date":"2018-11-11T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T15:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/postmortem-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-11-11T16:59:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T15:59:55","slug":"postmortem-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/postmortem-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Postmortem – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And so, with the midterm election in the rearview mirror, behold the rush into the next phase of Civil War 2. The Golden Golem of Greatness (aka, President Trump) finally requested the resignation of the feckless Attorney General, Mr. Sessions \u2014 a fine point as we shall see.\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>, of course, played it as an opportunity to litigate the constitution in their headline the day after:<\/p>\n

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Jeff Sessions Is Forced Out as Attorney
<\/em><\/strong>General as Trump Installs Loyalist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday, replacing him with a loyalist who has echoed the president\u2019s complaints about the special counsel investigation into Russia\u2019s election interference and will now take charge of the inquiry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Notice that in the headline and the lede\u00a0The Times<\/em>\u00a0is trying to establish the legalistic meme that Sessions was fired rather than resigned, hoping to trigger an obscure DOJ rule that a fired AG cannot be replaced by a temporary appointment. (Well, Mr. Sessions did sign a letter of resignation stating that\u2026uh\u2026 he\u00a0resigned<\/em>.) At the same time,\u00a0The Times<\/em>\u00a0tries to establish that the incoming Acting AG, Matthew G. Whitaker, is too biased to serve, setting the table for a constitutional food fight.
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Of course\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0is no longer a newspaper in the traditional sense, but an advocacy and propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. They\u2019re pushing this desperate gambit because it\u2019s clear that Mr. Trump is taking the gloves off now in this long-running battle. What\u2019s at stake is whether the DOJ will prosecute the\u00a0actual<\/em>\u00a0and obvious collusion that occurred during and after the 2016 election…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And so, with the midterm election in the rearview mirror, behold the rush into the next phase of Civil War 2. The Golden Golem of Greatness (aka, President Trump) finally requested the resignation of the feckless Attorney General, Mr. Sessions \u2014 a fine point as we shall see.\u00a0The New York Times, of course, played it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}