Cabinet members beware: What Trump is doing to Sessions can happen to you

Oh, most will just suck up to Trump. No worries.


Cabinet members beware: What Trump is doing to Sessions can happen to you

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/26/opinions/cabinet-beware-trump-sessions-opinion-borger/index.html


By Gloria Borger, CNN Chief Political Analyst

Updated 4:44 PM ET, Wed July 26, 2017


Source: CNN
Trump on Sessions's fate: Time will tell 02:12
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Gloria Borger: It has not escaped other Cabinet members that what happened to Sessions could happen to them.
The President will stop at nothing to get loyalty, even if it means rubbing up against the rule of law, she writes

"Gloria Borger is CNN's chief political analyst, appearing regularly on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper's AC360 and across the network's primetime programs. Follow her on Twitter @GloriaBorger. The opinions expressed in this commentary are hers."

(CNN)Just imagine you are a key member of the President's cabinet. Maybe you were completely loyal to him during the campaign; maybe you came around late in the game. Or maybe you were apolitical. Whatever your history, you're in the thick of it now. And you're in the job to serve the country.

But as you watch the President publicly troll, trash and torment Attorney General Jeff Sessions every day -- the man who was the first senator to endorse him, who never abandoned his candidate (even in the darkest days of the Access Hollywood tape), who happily gave up a 20-year Senate career to serve -- you have to understand: this could happen to you.

And that isn't going to change.

The incoming communications chief Anthony Scaramucci put it this way: "The President wants his Cabinet secretaries to have his back." And a friend of the President makes it even more clear. "This is the way the President likes it. Nobody has command and control except him.".......................................