America owes Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein its thanks

The role played by Sessions and Rosenstein in these recent events is of a piece with their conduct throughout the Trump presidency. It’s fashionable for progressives to mock members of the Trump administration, to label them “cowardly” or “complicit” in the administration’s wrongdoing. But that is an utterly unfair assessment of the Trump Department of Justice.

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Jeff Sessions properly and prudently recused himself from the Russia investigation. Rod Rosenstein properly and prudently appointed a special counsel after Trump fired FBI director James Comey and misled America about the reasons.

In fact, the Trump DOJ has even produced not one, but two damning assessments indicating that the FBI took improper actions during the 2016 campaign that hurt Hillary Clinton — thus directly contradicting the favored GOP “deep state” narrative that imagines an entire federal law-enforcement bureaucracy united against Trump in 2016.

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