So what? Maybe he was otherwise going to resign and the kabuki was necessary to keep things under wraps.

The senate race was a top 2 primary so he was able to keep a democrat off the ballot

Recusing from Russiagate was a monumental disaster and rightly so ended Sessions career.

Honestly, what did recusing from Russiagate do other than allow him to continue doing his job as AG while ignoring an obviously fake investigation into HIS president where he would have had to sign an unconstitutional FISA application renewal that he (quite cleverly) instead passed onto Swamp Rod, who may himself have been playing Mueller according to recent information, because the hoax was likely done to tie Trump's AG into a multi-year investigation that would have prevented him from actually doing his job, busting pedos, and taking a hard stance on immigrants.

Name literally ONE reason why recusing was actually bad aside from the political theatre that was going on. He actually only recused himself from JUST the fake Mueller probe and literally nothing else. Y'know, the report that even Mueller had no fucking clue what the fuck was happening?

Instead, Sessions appointed Durham who later went on to be the key figure in "investigating the investigators".

Again, literally give me one reason why Sessions should have wasted his time that was better spent busting pedos on that piece of shit report that wasted EVERYONE'S time (Except for Mueller who clearly didn't even lift a finger or give a single ounce of fuck about his own report) and money.