Wednesday, October 18, 2017

The Attorney General Jeff Sessions had a rather contentious Senate hearing today.

Courtesy of the Business Insider:  

Attorney General Jeff Sessions engaged in a lengthy, heated exchange with Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. The battle focused on what Sessions told the Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing in January about his communications with Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign. 

During a line of questioning from Franken in that January hearing, Sessions was asked what he would do as attorney general if he found evidence that "anyone affiliated with the Russian government" communicated with the Trump campaign through the election. Sessions said he was unaware of any such activities and insisted he "did not have communications with the Russians." 

It was later reported that Sessions had a handful of conversations during the campaign with the Russian ambassador to the US at the time, Sergey Kislyak. As a result, Sessions recused himself from all matters related to the Trump campaign and insisted he did not attempt to mislead the committee. 

"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," Session said on Wednesday in response to a question from Franken. "And in retrospect, I should have slowed down and said, 'But I did meet one Russian official a couple of times, and that would be the ambassador.'" 

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Franken said that once Sessions was confronted with the reports, he began to change his answer about whether he communicated with Russians. 

"So again, the goalpost has been moved," Franken said. "First, it was 'I did not have communications with Russians,' which was not true. Then it was 'I never met with any Russians to discuss any political campaign,' which may or may not be true. Now it's 'I did not discuss interference in the campaign,' which further narrows your initial blanket denial about meeting with the Russians. 

"Since you have qualified your denial to say that you did not 'discuss issues of the campaign with Russians,' what in your view constitutes issues of the campaign?" he said.

Sessions of course denied that "he had any improper discussions with the Russians at any time about the campaign."

This was by no means the only adversarial back and forth that Sessions had today.



Courtesy of CNN: 

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday faced tough questions from his former colleagues on the Senate judiciary committee -- forcing him to once again repeatedly deny any improper contacts with the Russian government during the presidential campaign. 

"My concern is you were part of the Russian facade and went along with it," Vermont Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy said after a second round of tense questioning as the hearing stretched into the afternoon. "I'm sorry, I've known you for years, and I'm sorry you would do that. " 

Sessions denied the allegation and expressed dismay that his former committee chairman would make it. 

"It did hurt me to hear you say I'm part of a façade, I'm not part of a façade," Sessions said.

So the Keebler elf got his little fee fees hurt and really wanted to take his ball and go home.

However his emotional boo boos did not keep him from stonewalling.

Courtesy of Vox: 

Attorney General Jeff Sessions acknowledges that he discussed then-FBI Director James Comey with President Donald Trump before writing the letter that was used as justification for Comey’s firing in May. But he won’t say what, specifically, Trump’s concerns with Comey were — and in particular, whether Trump was intent on getting rid of Comey to dispel the “cloud” he felt the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election had cast over his presidency. 

In a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sessions confirmed to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had met with the president before writing their May 9 letters, which justified firing Comey based on his treatment of the 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state. 

But asked whether Trump had ever voiced concerns about a “cloud” over the Russia investigation to Sessions — or what, in particular, Trump’s concerns about Comey were — Sessions claimed the content of his conversations with the president was confidential.

So even though Trump has repeatedly blamed Jeff Sessions for recusing himself and allowing a Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate possible ties to Russia, and even though his continued employment seems to be tenuous at best, Sessions refuses to throw his boss under the bus?  

Man, Adolph Hitler WISHES he had soldiers this loyal.

32 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:10 PM

    They all have money in the game.
    If one falls, they all fall down.
    No more U.S.A. today or tomorrow.
    It will be worse than a bomb. :/

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    1. Anonymous4:36 PM

      @ 4:10

      Wrong. America is coming back better than ever. DJT, et. al, are going to be held accountable/going to prison. Representatives/Senators/Lobbyists going to be held accountable/going to prison. Zuckerberg/FB going to be held accountable. Jack/Twitter going to be held accountable. Putin/Russia going to be held accountable. And it will cost them billions.

      You have no idea the Patriots working behind the scenes to pull America out of this muck and they are winning.

      Tick, tock. You ain't seen nothing yet.

      GeorgiaPeach

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    2. Anonymous4:59 PM

      Gotta disagree with you, GeorgisPeach, it IS money and power at the expense of our very lives as citizens. I’ll believe it when I see it.

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    3. Anonymous5:29 PM

      @4:59

      Keep the faith. Much yet to be exposed. Soon.

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    4. Anonymous7:47 PM

      Lol at GP. Seriously, prepare yourself for embarrassing public disappointment Georgia.

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  2. Anonymous4:33 PM

    Sessions is an !! (can't put in print) and comes across as 'entitled'! Plus, he's been caught in numerous lies. What is wrong w/these Republican white men? They are horrible and should not be running our government. Vote more wisely America when next going to the polls.

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  3. Anonymous4:58 PM

    http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/18/facebook-ad-disclosure-bill-243914

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  4. Anonymous5:21 PM

    ot Melania? Controversy, she has a body double... Looks like Natasha Fatale to me.
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMdmZ-lWAAU9Qe8.jpg

    Melania body-double conspiracy theory
    https://www.salon.com/2017/10/18/melania-body-double-conspiracy-theory/

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    1. Anonymous5:53 PM

      http://addictinginfo.com/2017/10/18/the-fake-melania-trump-conspiracy-theory-is-taking-the-internet-by-storm-and-its-everything/

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    2. Anonymous5:56 PM

      http://uproxx.com/webculture/melania-trump-body-double/

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    3. Anonymous6:24 PM

      ‘Fake Melania’ Is The Conspiracy Theory We All Need To Believe In Right Now

      https://wonkette.com/624511/__trashed-5

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    4. Anonymous6:31 PM

      If it *is* Melanoma, she sure has gotten a different lip - been spouting off to Dotard and had to 'be taught a lesson'?

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    5. Anonymous3:23 AM

      Next they will say it was the "double" who posed for the naked photos. She wears sunglasses to cover the "work" she has done on her eyes.

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  5. I'm sure Franken was merciless since Sessions jerked him around the first time. Franken was very specific and Sessions borderline lied. And this confidence crap? You know it means Sessions can't answer without lying or hanging Trump out to dry. Trump told Sessions it was to stop Comey's Russia investigation.

    What I'd like to know is how far Trump has to go before these worms finally turn on him. No way he has the "compromat" or power to keep these guys silent. Does he have hitmen on speed dial ready to take them out of their families if they squeal? What will it take for them to finally spill and take him down?

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    1. Anonymous3:27 AM

      It will take self respect and courage. None of these people appear to have either trait. Covering for that fat failure of a "man" has to be really demeaning to any decent person. tRump chose these cowards well.

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  6. OT:

    Roy Moore took money from a Nazi Group. (Boy, Alabama is starting to be very entertaining.)

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roy-moore-foundation-nazi-donation_us_59e79abae4b08f9f9edc59a0?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

    "In 2005, the foundation run by Judge Roy Moore, now the Republican nominee for a Senate seat in Alabama, accepted a $1,000 donation from a group founded by Willis Carto, a white supremacist, Nazi supporter and World War II vet who famously said he regretted fighting for the U.S instead of Germany.

    The Foundation to Defend the First Amendment is one of several nonprofit groups Carto used to shuffle money around to his anti-Semitic and racist conspiracy publications, to fund Holocaust deniers, and, apparently, to donate to Moore’s nonprofit. The Carto-founded group touts its support for Moore and his Foundation for Moral Law on its web site. The contribution to Moore’s group stands out as one of just a handful it has made to organizations not explicitly involved in Holocaust denial.

    The people who run the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment have an ideology that is, “Total Nazi; and notice I didn’t say neo-Nazi,” Todd Blodgett, the former head of the white supremacist record label Resistance Records — and later an FBI informant — told HuffPost."

    No record they ever gave it back. I'd say 12 years would be a little late to correct that oversight.

    If he plays his cards right, Doug Jones just might win. But he better be willing to take off the gloves and get down and dirty.

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  7. Anonymous6:00 PM

    UPDATE:

    Gryph remember Anonymous 1:22's comment below when Trump promised to give a Gold Star father a personal check for $25k and never did?

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    Anonymous1:22 PM

    Gryph you're not going to believe this, but then again you will

    America Not Again


    Washington Post: 
    Trump offered a grieving military father $25,000 in a call, but didn’t follow through

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-offered-a-grieving-military-father-25000-in-a-call-but-didnt-follow-through/2017/10/18/8d4cbc8c-b43a-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html
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    WELL AFTER BEING SHAMED BY THE WASHINGTON POST, TRUMP TODAY SENT THE $25,000 CHECK HE PROMISED IN JUNE.
    SEE BELOW:


    CNN:
    Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump sent a $25,000 personal check to the family of a fallen soldier the same day that The Washington Post reported that he had promised the soldier's father a personal donation during a June condolence call but never followed through....

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/18/politics/donald-trump-personal-check-soldier/index.html

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    1. Anonymous6:52 PM

      With all the money Don the con has made overcharging the secret service,we,the taxpayers covered that check.

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    2. Anonymous5:58 AM

      Dad better run to the bank before the check bounces or 45 stops payment.

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  8. Anonymous6:18 PM

    https://www.mediaite.com/online/pro-trump-twitter-account-with-massive-clout-was-run-by-russian-trolls/amp/

    Just the beginning. Twitter and Facebook have much to answer for.

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  9. Anonymous6:38 PM

    I had to share this. Times sure have changed for most of us.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEWnXmDfVZg

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    1. Anonymous7:43 AM

      Anti Social - A Modern Dating Horror Story |
      Comic Relief Originals

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  10. Anonymous8:18 PM

    White House does not dispute details of Trump's call with Army widow

    ● The White House on Wednesday did not dispute reports that President Donald Trump told the widow of a slain U.S. soldier that her late husband "knew what he was signing up for" when he joined the military.

    ● Trump on Wednesday claimed he had "proof" that a lawmaker had "totally fabricated" her account of the call.

    ● Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later said that there were no tapes of the call. She also declined to back up the president's denials, emphasizing that Trump had done "the best job he could under those circumstances."

    https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/18/white-house-does-not-dispute-details-of-trumps-call-with-army-widow.html

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  11. Anonymous8:21 PM

    Judge Orders Detained Pregnant Undocumented Minor Be Allowed To Have An Abortion

    http://crooksandliars.com/2017/10/judge-orders-pregnant-undocumented-minor

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/judge-trump-administration-cancannot-block-abortion-for-pregnant-undocumented-teen/2017/10/18/82348e08-b406-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html

    Trump administration appeals abortion ruling

    http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/18/abortion-undocumented-teen-judge-243922

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  12. Anonymous8:54 PM

    The unrelenting crisis in Puerto Rico is forcing people to drink dirty water

    https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/10/18/16489180/water-crisis-puerto-rico-hurricane-maria

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    1. Anonymous3:45 AM

      This would be a good time for the wealthy famous Puerto rico citizens, actors, athletes, etc to step in and step up to rebuild the area to be self sufficient, clean, safe and able to handle the next hurricane better. Water purification systems, solar, wind, stronger buildings. There are endless possibilities, jobs and progress in the future for PR.

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    2. Anonymous5:26 AM

      Because there are so many of them,of course between them they could provide hundreds of billions of dollars to do so.This would actually be a good time for American citizens to help American citizens.

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  13. Anonymous3:37 AM

    Did Russians have any american help invading our country? Sessions.....duh I don't think so? Really? where in hell did these dotard useful idiot white traitors come from? What in the F is wrong with them?

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  14. Perjurer Sessions added a "continuously"to his newest lie about meetings. No one ever asked or said he met continuously with any Russkies. WJC was impeached for perjury. Just saying.

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  15. Anonymous6:01 AM

    Drag him Al! Damn, wish he was my Senator.

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  16. WA Skeptic7:24 AM

    I thought that Sen Franken's questions were beginning to sound like the WJC questions! And Session's answers were beginning to sound like WJC's answers! Deja vu, all over again. All we need is a navy blue dress!!!

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  17. Anonymous11:22 AM

    OT?"Whispers emerging from the court indicate Gorsuch is more likely to alienate than influence even his conservative colleagues."
    "Totenberg, a renowned court reporter who is friendly with several justices, noted that Gorsuch “ticks off some members of the court—and I don’t think it’s just the liberals.”"Why is Totenberg’s reporting here so extraordinary? Because it’s astonishing that any reporter would hear details from conference, let alone score some genuinely juicy scuttlebutt. Conference is famously sacrosanct: "communications make clear that Gorsuch has generated some ill will among justices. Signs have emerged from the bench, too, as Gorsuch has been on the receiving end of a few retorts." Gorsuch, by comparison, is a Fox News anchor’s idea of a first-rate justice: an insipid ideologue peddling warmed-over dogmas."

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/10/why_rumors_of_a_gorsuch_kagan_supreme_court_clash_are_such_a_bombshell.html

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