Attorney General Sessions is in Serious Trouble

[KatieG]

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What I hilited was a short, to the point, sums it all up comment about this situation. I give credit where credit is due

I did get electricity shot into my back to kill some nerves on Tuesday. Been curled up with my kindle, my dogs, and some kick butt stuff I got from my grower. Don't want Sessions to harsh my mellow

 

[A'isha]

No you're wrong. Its just the beginning.

I'm sure this is just the beginning. Only not in the way you and Trump would like.

 

[Babbylonian]

Putin and friends have to be enjoying this. First, they help get an utter incompetent elected as President of the United States. That would be a good couple years' work, but now, thanks to the incompetence of those working for the incompetent, the US also has a discredited executive branch presided over by said utter incompetent. Total win/win for Russia's assassin-king.

 

[logger]

I'm sure this is just the beginning. Only not in the way you and Trump would like.

But then of course we have Pence if the left ever gets their little wet dream to come true. Your side is still screwed.

 

[TheL8Elvis]

But then of course we have Pence if the left ever gets their little wet dream to come true. Your side is still screwed.

If by your side you mean the entire country ... spot on.

 

[dudalb]

Putin and friends have to be enjoying this. First, they help get an utter incompetent elected as President of the United States. That would be a good couple years' work, but now, thanks to the incompetence of those working for the incompetent, the US also has a discredited executive branch presided over by said utter incompetent. Total win/win for Russia's assassin-king.

It depends on what Putin was after. If he wanted a puppet who would give Putin sweetheart deals,that is over. Any deal favorable to Russia is totally toxic ....it is the one area where Trump has gotten pretty widespread and consistent pushback from the GOP in Congress....and is DOA.

 

[Andy_Ross]

"Okay, FINE. I will recuse myself. Now can I get back to enacting as many racist policies as I can before I'm forced to resign? JEEZE."

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

If you are on the foreign affairs or military commitees, it IS part of your job. You seem to be a little confused about foreign affaris. The President does NOT have a monopoly on foreign affairs. It is a joint responsibility...although the tradition has been to allow the POTUS to take the lead. But the POTUS does not have, and never has had, total control and power over foreign affairs.

So what the meetings were about then, should have been related to Sessions' position on the Armed Services Committee, (not even considering the other committee members have had no such meetings over the past year)?

Here's the problem:

Transcript of Jeff Sessions’s recusal press conference, annotated

SESSIONS: The Russian ambassador ... asked for a meeting, as so many of the ambassadors were doing. And we set up a time, as we did -- as we normally did. And we met with him.

Two of my senior staffers were there, and maybe a younger staffer, too. And they are both retired Army colonels, and not politicians, and we had a -- we listened to the ambassador and what his concerns might be.
QUESTION: Which were what?

SESSIONS: Well, it was just normal things, such as I started off by saying -- I don't remember a lot of it, but I do remember saying I'd gone to Russia with a church group in 1991, and he said he was not a believer himself but he was glad to have church people come there. Indeed, I thought he was pretty much of an old-style Soviet type ambassador. And so, we talked about a little bit about terrorism as I recall.

And somehow the subject of the Ukraine came up. I had had the Ukraine ambassador in my office the day before. And to listen to him, nothing that Russia -- Russia had done nothing that was wrong in any area, and everybody else was wrong with regard to the Ukraine. It got to be a little bit of a testy conversation at that point.
It wrapped up, he said something about inviting me to have lunch. I did not accept that, and that never occurred.

Come on, these are supposed to be important things that Senators do, meet with ambassadors and the meeting was little more than chit-chat and a superficial discussion of the Ukraine?

And this was supposed to be a surprise to Sessions:

And secondly, when you answered Senator Franken's question, were you just not thinking of the meeting with the Russian ambassador, or did you not consider it relevant?

SESSIONS: I was taken aback a little bit about this brand new information, this allegation that a surrogate -- and I had been called a surrogate for Donald Trump -- had been meeting continuously with Russian officials, and that's what I -- it struck me very hard, and that's what I focused my answer on.

He makes it sound like he had very little to do with Trump's campaign.

Here's a Breitbart article from a year ago: Trump Campaign Releases New Details About Sessions’ Role As Foreign Policy Adviser

Donald Trump’s senior policy adviser Stephen Miller is explaining the detailed role Sen. Jeff Sessions will play as chairman of Trump’s Foreign Policy Advisory Committee.
“The news that I’m here to tell you about tonight,” Miller said on The Kelly File, “is that Senator Sessions is the Chairman of his Foreign Policy Committee. And that’s a major piece of news, I mean, who’s Ted Cruz’s guy? Who’s John Kasich’s guy?”

For first time, Miller detailed the effort Sessions has poured into this new role. “Jeff Sessions has been meeting for hours now putting together a team of foreign policy advisers, military experts, [and] intelligence experts,” Miller said. “I had a chance to speak to Sen. Sessions today and his military advisers for about half an hour before coming here and we discussed some robust foreign policy ideas.”

Miller informed viewers that Trump has “sat down with Senator Jeff Sessions and has spoken about these [foreign policy] issues at length.”

And yet we are to believe Sessions was taken aback by Franken's questions? And Sessions barely remembers meeting with the Russian ambassador? Helloo, sanctions, interference with the election, hacking, Ukraine invasion, Crimea take over, NATO-Russia issues, all the Trump-Russia connections, ...

It's not credible.

 

[Strawberry]

Sessions needs to resign before his presence starts to damage America's relations with her allies, if it isn't already.

To anybody in this thread who's defending Sessions - your excuses might fly in Trump's heartlands, they might even silence Democrats, but they won't fly among the intelligence services of the other Five Eyes countries. Get rid of him, before the Brits, Aussies, etc, start cutting your guys out of the loop.

 

[Babbylonian]

It depends on what Putin was after. If he wanted a puppet who would give Putin sweetheart deals,that is over. Any deal favorable to Russia is totally toxic ....it is the one area where Trump has gotten pretty widespread and consistent pushback from the GOP in Congress....and is DOA.

I think what's happening is exactly what Putin wanted: Ineffectual chaos. My reasoning is that Putin likely knows how the US government works better than our current moron-in-chief, meaning he knows any "sweetheart deals" would require congressional approval, which is more difficult to influence from the outside and requires spending lots of money...Putin and company consider Russian government money to be their personal piggy bank, and they'd be loathe to spend a lot of it on the US Congress. With the nutbars currently running the executive branch, Putin at least makes it more difficult for there to be any rapid intervention by the US when he decides to deploy his army to take over another neighboring state.

 

[CapelDodger]

Sessions seemed "old man" confused. Not encouraging.

It is for people hoping to see more blood in the water (in a metphorical sense, I mean).

 

[Andy_Ross]

Y'all, I apologize. i got so excited to do racism that i slipped up and did a dang perjury!

 

[A'isha]

Uh oh...

 

[sunmaster14]

Uh oh...

Are you going to post this nothingburger in every thread?

 

[A'isha]

Are you going to post this nothingburger in every thread?

Just the ones with the highest likelihood of making Heil Trumpers squirm trying to make excuses for this too.

 

[dudalb]

Are you going to post this nothingburger in every thread?

A lot of people in the GOP seem very worried about this Russian "nothingburger".
But we get that you think that Trump is God and Can Do No Wrong....

 

[dudalb]

BTW Sessions walked back some of his statements about Mary Jane in a private session with several senators..and yes, I don't think it is a coincidence that it happened at the same time the Russian meeting scandal broke...

 

[Mumbles]

Sessions needs to resign before his presence starts to damage America's relations with her allies, if it isn't already.

To anybody in this thread who's defending Sessions - your excuses might fly in Trump's heartlands, they might even silence Democrats, but they won't fly among the intelligence services of the other Five Eyes countries. Get rid of him, before the Brits, Aussies, etc, start cutting your guys out of the loop.

I'm pretty sure Sessions doesn't do much in the way of intelligence - he's mostly law enforcement. As for sharing intelligence, I'm sure they're more interested in Trump than Sessions.

 

[dudalb]

Best comment so far on another website.
"Jeff looked really upset. He needs to go home ,take a hit from a bong,and mellow out".

 

[jeffas69]

Sessions needs to resign before his presence starts to damage America's relations with her allies, if it isn't already.

To anybody in this thread who's defending Sessions - your excuses might fly in Trump's heartlands, they might even silence Democrats, but they won't fly among the intelligence services of the other Five Eyes countries. Get rid of him, before the Brits, Aussies, etc, start cutting your guys out of the loop.

Would you clarify what it is that you are talking about? How would Sessions presence in the Justice dept. affect the foreign intelligence relations with the Dept. of Defense? I would be much more concerned with our horrendous piping system in that area. The leaks are disgusting.