Only Donald Trump could make one (almost) feel sorry for Jeff Sessions.
This adolescent taunting is of course meant to force Sessions out as attorney general, so that Trump can put in a lapdog of even more ferocious loyalty. This, everyone knows, with the possible exception of Jeff Sessions, who strikes me as dimwitted as his former Senate colleague, James Inhofe. Would that Sessions gets the point of Trump's exercise in schoolyard bullying — and quits. That would facilitate Trump's moving us closer to the crisis that everyone also knows is coming: the firing of Bob Mueller.
And my wager is that, in any case, it's coming soon. Once "repeal and replace" Obamacare or simply "repeal" implodes, Trump will be in need of a monstrous distraction. Fast.