A little more on our new AG

An obscure conservative podcast recorded by a former Trump administration official last Sunday provided a unique window into acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker and the reasons some have found his appointment alarming.

Broadcasting from Hinton, Iowa, a small town in what he called the “reddest part of the state,” Sam Clovis talked about his “very good friend” Whitaker.

“I know Matt very well, I know him well enough that … we’ve chatted on the phone a lot. We’ve texted back and forth,” Clovis said.

  

We need to consider everything Sam Clovis says in the light of who Sam Clovis is. He's up to his eyeballs in Trump's Russia trouble. And he's a big ball of bullshit. Having been pushed to the back of the picture, Sam is a small-town dick who no doubt wants to seem like he's still in the inner circle. But it does appear that he knows Whitaker.  In fact, he was Whitaker's Whitaker was Clovis' campaign chair when he ran for Iowa State Treasurer.  It's quite the incestuous group.  (Don McGahn, Trump's ex-White House counsel, championed Whitaker for his role as Sessions' assistant.)

But, continue...

Clovis predicted Whitaker would “do what is right” with respect to the Mueller probe.

“He has my 100 percent support and I know he will follow the evidence where it goes, but he will also not let these things get out of out of control … get outside of the confines of what was intended in the special investigator’s position here. So, again, I trust Matt Whitaker to do what he’s supposed to do,” Clovis said.

Doing what's right and what he's supposed to do are two very opposite things.

Clovis, who went from being a top campaign aide to holding a position in the Trump administration, offered his own thoughts on Sessions and hinted at what his idea of doing “what is right” with the Russia probe would be during his radio show last Sunday. While Clovis said he had a ”great relationship” with Sessions through the transition, he described the former attorney general’s recusal as “a mistake” that angered Trump and messed up “everything.”

“I don’t know what was in his head when he decided to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, which knocked everything into a cocked hat and left a very bad taste in the mouth of the president,” Clovis said of Sessions, adding, “He probably could have held up and stood up to the whole thing as best as anyone could.”

For once in his life, Jeff Sessions did what was right by listening to his DOJ advisers and recused himself from an investigation in which he himself is not immune.

“I just don’t think they can help themselves,” Clovis said of the Democrats. “They hate this president so much and they hate the people who support this president so much. And by the way, folks, that’s you. They hate you.”

Or, maybe, Sam, it's you.

Clovis, who also boasted of his closeness to the president on the broadcast, did not respond to requests to comment on this story. His ties to Whitaker have raised eyebrows in the wake of the acting attorney general’s appointment because Mueller’s prosecutors have taken an interest in Clovis.

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During the 2016 presidential race, Clovis supervised a Trump campaign staffer named George Papadopoulos. Emails obtained by the special counsel show Clovis encouraged Papadopoulos’s interactions with Russian officials, including efforts to arrange a meeting for them with Trump.

I believe Papadopolous has a sentencing hearing shortly after Thanksgiving.

Clovis, who was a co-chairman and policy adviser on the campaign, began working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture after Trump’s election.

Trump tapped Clovis to be the department’s top scientist, but he withdrew his nomination a month after testifying before the grand jury amid controversy over the attention he drew from Mueller’s team. Clovis eventually left the USDA in May of this year.

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The Iowa Democratic Party has also been pushing for Whitaker to recuse himself from the Mueller probe, as Sessions did.

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The party’s statement said Whitaker’s “relationship with Clovis is where serious questions come in to play about his credibility.”

Serious questions come into play about his credibility from pretty much everywhere. His relationship with Clovis isn't number one on the list.

Clovis offered some far more personal praise for the acting attorney general.

“He is not a shy, retiring violet I will tell you that,” Clovis said of Whitaker. “He’s big. He’s bigger than life. … He is a real stud of a man out there.”

Hmmmmmm. Like Trump, Clovis seems to have some manhood issues.

Sam & Whit (source) 

I'm not sure we're gonna have enough orange fabric.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.