Señor Trumpanzee On 60 Minutes

Even if Trump loses the presidency and the Democrats hold the House, McConnell will still be able to block a progressive agenda if the GOP holds the Senate— or even a strong minority in the Senate. The Republicans are fighting to hold onto a majority and they will have all the money in the world to do just that. One screw up would be not being able to win back the Alabama Senate seat they narrowly lost to Doug Jones when Trump named Jeff Sessions Attorney General and then Republican voters nominated extremist and— worse for some GOP voters— child molester Roy Moore to replace Sessions. As we saw last Friday, Moore can easily win a Republican primary but not a general election, not even in Alabama. (Although he almost won— 673,896 (50.0%) to 651,972 (48.350). Anyway, now that Moore is running again, McConnell and the Alabama Republican Party think their way out of that potential pitfall is to recruit a very reticent Sessions— who announced he’s done with politics— to run for his old seat again, even to just serve for a couple of years and have the Republican governor appoint a Republican replacement.

When Trump appeared on Meet The Press yesterday, it isn’t likely that Sessions became any less reticent hearing Trump describe him as his biggest mistake. In response to a question from Chuck Todd, Trump said “I would say if I had one do over, it would be… I would not have appointed Jeff Sessions to be attorney general... That was the biggest mistake.” Now Trump is trying to make sure Moore loses the primary. His comments about Sessions must have made McConnell cringe.




And that wasn’t even the worst part of the 35 minute interview for Trump and his congressional enablers. He wasn’t able to satisfactorily explain the loss of a $130 million drone in the Persian Gulf. He lied on the economy over and over again, especially as soon as Obama came up. He lied about the humanitarian crisis at the border, blaming everyone but himself. He lied about the Mueller report. He lied about how badly treated he and his family have been. He lied about his business career. He lied about healthcare. He lied about the 2016 election results. He lied about every question Todd brought up.