Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next Tuesday as part of its probe into Russian interference in the election, The Hill confirmed on Tuesday.
Sessions's appearance will allow Democrats on the panel to pepper the top U.S. law enforcement officials about his past statements concerning exchanges with Russian agents during the time he served the Trump campaign last year.
Democrats are particularly interested in his ties to former Trump campaign staffer George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about contacts with Russians. Court documents revealed that Papadopoulos had offered to set up a meeting between Moscow and then-candidate Donald Trump.
They want to know why Sessions, an Alabama senator (R), failed to previously disclose Papadopoulos's offer to use his contacts and set up a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in March 2016.
Sessions previously told lawmakers that he was "not aware of any of those activities" of contacts between Russian officials and Trump campaign surrogates.
Well you knew this had to be coming.
However I would rather that Sessions was facing the Senate Judiciary Committee instead of the House.
The only problem with that would be that it might give Trump enough reason to fire Sessions and appoint a replacement, which will allow him to undermine or do away with the Mueller investigation.
That last possibility is certainly going to put a dent in my popcorn consumption.
He has plenty of time to get his lies straight and suffer "memory" loss.
ReplyDeleteI would rather see him interviewed by Mueller,at least he can bring charges.
Pretty certain that he will say he didn't lie.
DeleteSure, he can say he didn't lie, but that doesn't mean he didn't lie.
DeleteI'm sure Devon Patrick Kelley is going to say he didn't kill anyone. Oh, that's right. He can't any more.
But you get the idea.
May be those "Bat Ears" can flap and carry him out a there. ;)
DeleteNice pictures of President Obama below:
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ot~But whats @ $take:
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"rump’s management of U.S. foreign policy is “revolutionary in a very negative way,” said Aaron David Miller, who is vice president and Middle East programs director at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and a former State Department negotiator in past Democratic and Republican administrations.
Delete“It’s a galactic disaster.”
"Most non-Americans consider Trump “arrogant,” “intolerant” and even “dangerous,” the poll found. Just 22 percent of respondents expressed “confidence in Trump to do the right thing when it comes to international affairs,” compared with 64 percent during Barack Obama’s presidency. The decline in trust was most marked among America’s closest allies in Europe and Asia, as well as in neighboring Mexico and Canada."
"In only two of the polled countries ― Russia and Israel ― did people believe Trump is a better president than Obama."
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-one-year-world-perspective_us_5a029dc4e4b06ff32c9456ac?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
I️ used to think that Trump would be protected and come away unscathed. Now, in IMO, he’s going to go down and take quite a few with him.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/inside-ivanka-and-jareds-first-year-in-washington
Delete$'T'art here!
"Despite anti-nepotism laws and looming conflicts of interests, the couple quickly determined that they would re-route their ambitions through the White House, impervious to any sort of significant public-relations setback. They benefited from both clever legal maneuvering and an American public so paralyzed by the thought of a President Trump that it could countenance the prospect of two political neophytes entering the inner sanctum of American government. Among a motley crew of Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Jeff Sessions, and Mike Flynn, they didn’t merely seem moderating—they seemed human. Even if they were ambitious, inexperienced creatures of privilege, so the argument went, they were at least a secure line for the liberals they left behind in their globalist cuckocracy—the world of the All Hallows’ Eve benefit, the Met, the Upper East Side they left behind."rump himself has repeatedly reminded the couple of what a nice life they had in New York, before they were “getting KILLED” by the press in D.C., several sources have said. Their old life in New York, of course, no longer exists for them as it did. Many of their onetime friends stepped away from the couple as they jumped in head-first to support HER father and his policies, and few have rushed back toward them. Kushner himself noted to Forbes after the election that friends or business associates of theirs had not been enthused by Trumpian VALUE$, though he called it “exfoliation” on his part of former friends who didn’t have “a lot of character.”“They’re in a world of shit,” one of the people close to the family told me. “He may seem cool, but he’s sweating, and $HE’s like her father. $HE’ll never acknowledge it and [will] blame the media. But $HE’s been working on her reputation forever" To bad, so sad>
'I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation
You're living in the past it's a new generation
A girl can do what $HE wants to do and that's
What I'm gonna do…"
Fox News Had A Meltdown And Pretended Like The Democratic Election Wave Never Happened
ReplyDelete...Once the election was breaking big for Democrats, Fox News decided that the election didn’t exist. They decided not to cover the biggest news of the night, and instead, live inside the Trump bubble where everything is going wonderfully.
Under Trump, Fox News has retreated even further from reality. The election was so bad for Republicans that Fox News started pretending like it wasn’t happening. Fox News and Trump have taken a media bubble and turned into a full psychotic break from reality.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/11/08/fox-news-meltdown-pretended-democratic-election-wave-happened.html
Here’s A List Of Historic Victories Democrats Had On Election Day
Deletehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democratic-victories-firsts-election-day_us_5a026c51e4b092053058cf38?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Buses aren’t known for blazing speeds. But the one that Ed Gillespie found himself under Tuesday night came faster than even the biggest cynic expected.
DeleteThe former RNC Chairman suffered a brutal defeat to Lt. Governor Ralph Northam in the Virginia gubernatorial election on Tuesday. Only after, however, he was truly pulverized.
Shortly after the loss, President Donald Trump and his top allies began spinning the result as the result of Gillespie being insufficiently obedient to and appreciative of the Trump agenda.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ed-gillespie-lost-an-election-then-he-was-pulverized-by-trump-and-his-allies
Exit poll results: How different
Deletegroups of Virginians voted
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/local/virginia-politics/governor-exit-polls/
Virginia shows that anti-Trump Republicans and Democrats still have a pulse
...Exit polls show that twice as many people used their vote to send a message of opposition to Trump as those who said they wanted to send a message of support. A traditional coalition of women (+19 points), minorities, college-educated voters (who made up 59 percent of the electorate) and suburban voters rallied to Northam. Among two critical groups — white college-educated women and married women — Northam won handily. Northam ran up huge margins in D.C. suburbs and exurbs.
...Trump won’t be able to avoid getting tarred for this one. He surely made his presence felt. On Monday and Tuesday, a Trump robocall flooded the state. On Election Day, he started off with two obnoxious, demonstrably false tweets.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/11/07/virginia-shows-that-anti-trump-republicans-and-democrats-still-have-a-pulse/
Trump and Republicans think Gillespie should have bowed down to Trump? Give me a friggin' break!!! He DID support many things Trump DID when he ran for potus. They didn't listen or read very well!
DeleteTrump was on the ballot in Virginia. He lost.
DeletePresident Trump may have been 7,000 miles away in Seoul on Tuesday, but make no mistake: He was on the ballot in Virginia when his imitator, Republican Ed Gillespie, lost the closely watched gubernatorial race to Democrat Ralph Northam.
This was, in part, because Trump himself embraced Gillespie, endorsing him and, as Election Day arrived, tweeting about the “terrible” Virginia economy, its “high crime” and its gangs, and urging support for Gillespie.
But more than that, Trump was on the ballot because Gillespie, in the general election, attempted to remake himself as a Trump clone.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-was-on-the-ballot-in-virginia--and-lost/2017/11/07/cb5bf2c8-c429-11e7-84bc-5e285c7f4512_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/08/the-shifts-in-virginia-voting-that-handed-trump-an-embarrassing-defeat/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/11/08/virginia-bloodbath-trump-is-exorcising-the-democrats-midterm-curse/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/07/trump-just-made-a-bad-night-for-republicans-much-worse-for-himself/
DeleteIn stunning Trump rebuke, Montana elects Liberian refugee as state’s first black mayor
https://shareblue.com/in-stunning-trump-rebuke-montana-elects-liberian-refugee-as-states-first-black-mayor/
Three months after Charlottesville, Virginia elects second black lieutenant governor
https://shareblue.com/three-months-after-charlottesville-virginia-elects-second-black-lieutenant-governor/
Washington state victory leaves GOP in control of absolutely nothing on the West Coast
https://shareblue.com/washington-state-victory-leaves-gop-in-control-of-absolutely-nothing-on-the-west-coast/
Democrat easily wins New Jersey governor’s race as Christie’s failing era comes to a close
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'Washington state victory leaves GOP in control of absolutely nothing on the West Coast"
DeleteLisa~Wake the fuck up in Alaska.
Lewandowski: 'My memory has been refreshed' on Carter Page Moscow trip
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/08/corey-lewandowski-carter-page-email-244689
These “low level staffers/volunteers” were used as go between between the Trump campaign and Russia. They probably thought they were expendable. Like dominos, they are starting to topple. Trump jr., Sessions, and Kushner.... Trump.
ReplyDeleteHouse Democrats prepare to pepper Sessions with questions about Papadopoulos
ReplyDelete...Democrats have been eager to grill Sessions for months and have griped openly that their committee’s chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), has largely stayed on the sidelines of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Goodlatte has pointed to the multiple investigations already underway, including special counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal probe, as a reason to stay out of the way.
Sessions is also bound to face questions about the recent testimony of another campaign adviser, Carter Page, who told the intelligence panel last week that he informed Sessions in July 2016 about his own planned trip to Moscow, one that has drawn scrutiny from FBI investigators.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/07/jeff-sessions-george-papadopoulos-russia-questions-244639
The Department of Justice has dropped a case that was, indeed, a laughing matter.
Desiree Ali-Fairooz was scheduled to stand for her second trial on Nov. 13 after being arrested for what appeared to be laughing during Attorney General Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing in January. Ali-Fairooz tweeted she had received notice that her case was being dropped on Monday afternoon.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/07/doj-drops-case-woman-laughed-at-jeff-sessions-244646
Congressional investigators have interviewed ex-Donald Trump aides about the campaign’s push to remove proposed language that called for giving weapons to Ukraine.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/08/republicans-russia-platform-fight-244672
Exclusive: Russia Activated Twitter Sleeper Cells for 2016 Election Day Blitz
ReplyDeleteIn its final, climactic push for Donald Trump, the Kremlin’s troll army enlisted new members: semi-dormant propaganda accounts created as far back as 2009.
As U.S. polling places opened last Nov. 8, Russian trolls in St. Petersburg began a final push on Twitter to elect Donald Trump.
They used a combination of high-profile accounts with large and influential followings, and scores of lurking personas established years earlier with stolen photos and fabricated backgrounds. Those sleeper accounts dished out carefully metered tweets and retweets voicing praise for Trump and contempt for his opponent, from the early morning until the last polls closed in the United States.
“VOTE TRUMP to save ourselves from the New World Order. Time to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” read one. “Last chance to stop the Queen of Darkness! Vote Trump!” urged another.
The Daily Beast analyzed a dataset of 6.5 million tweets containing election keywords like “Hillary” and “Trump” that was collected over 33 hours last Nov. 7-9 by Baltimore-based data scientist Chris Albon.
The data are not comprehensive—only tweets with one of the keywords were collected, and limitations in Twitter’s API prevent a full capture even of those. But they represent a significant sampling of Election Day Twitter.
By filtering for the 2,752 users identified by Twitter as Russian troll accounts—a list the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released last week—we isolated 80 accounts dishing Election Day agitprop and reconstructed the big finish to Russia’s months-long active measures campaign.
The contours of that campaign, allegedly ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, have become clearer in the year since the 2016 election, thanks to declassified intelligence findings, congressional hearings, and media reports.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-russia-activated-twitter-sleeper-cells-for-election-day-blitz
Was one of them Leah McElrath?
DeleteWTF? She needs to be gagged.
ReplyDeleteFormer interim Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairwoman Donna Brazile in a new interview referred to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign as a "cult."
"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough said during Brazile's appearance on the MSNBC show on Wednesday that he thinks President Trump won the 2016 election because of mistakes the Clinton campaign made, former FBI director James Comey and the influence of Russia.
"I'll put it all in there, but it should have never been a close race," he said.
He then asked: "Why did they lose? Was it at the end of the day arrogance?"
“It was a cult,” Brazile said. “I felt like it was a cult. You could not penetrate them.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/359367-brazile-clinton-campaign-was-a-cult
Isn’t it?
DeleteLook how quickly they turned the former darling Elizabeth Warren.
Elizabeth Warren said the Democratic primary was rigged, an accusation that even Donna Brazile says it completely wrong.
DeleteSo yes Elizabeth Warren was criticized for saying something demonstrably untrue.
Calling somebody out for making a false statement does not mean anybody "turned" on her.
Anonymous9:45 AM
DeleteElizabeth Warren screwed herself too! Surprised me! She should never gone against Hillary Clinton."
"Anonymous9:15 AM
I'm fucking pissed at both Warren and Brazile. Bernie Sanders is not, never was, and never will be a Democrat. He never should have been allowed to run as one. We will continue to lose to Republicans because of shit like this!
HeidiWY"
"Anonymous9:43 AM
Or maybe this was a plan to derail Warren..... either way she, Warren, has shown she is unfit for higher office."
So much for Warren 2020.
Clinton touts Dem victories: This is what happens when we come together
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/359364-clinton-election-victories-are-reminder-of-whats-possible-when
Would it be ap·ro·pos for Sec. Clinton to address the 'personal/professional issues' between Ms Brazile and herself publicly? Miss-understanding
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“I now announce that before Christmas, there will be a vote on the chief inciter of racism, bigotry, hatred, xenophobia, sexism, ethnocentrism. There will be a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on the impeachment of the president,” Green said in a House floor speech.
ReplyDeleteGreen had previously unveiled articles of impeachment last month. But he held off from forcing a vote at the time, citing a desire for the public to have a chance to consider them.
The Texas Democrat did not offer a specific date for when he would force a vote, saying only that it would be before the December holiday.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/359366-house-dem-pledges-trump-impeachment-vote-by-christmas
Good.
DeleteIt will fail.
But let it be brought up over and over so that those that voted no can be pointed out by their opponents and defeated in 2018.
Trump is Leading the Most Corrupt Administration in U.S. History, One of First-Class Kleptocrats
ReplyDelete...But according to the presidential historian Robert Dallek, no American leader has acted with more unadulterated self-interest as Trump. Dallek says that in terms of outright corruption, Trump is worse than both Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding, presidents who oversaw the most flagrant instances of graft in American political history. Grant’s stellar reputation as a Civil War general is tarnished in part by the Whiskey Ring scandal, in which Treasury Department officials stole taxes from alcohol distillers; members of Harding’s administration plundered oil reserves in Teapot Dome, a rock outcropping in Wyoming that has lent its name to the most notorious example of government corruption in American political history. In both cases, the fault of the president was in his lack of oversight. As far as Dallek is concerned, something more nefarious is at work in the White House of Donald Trump.
“What makes this different,” Dallek says, “is that the president can’t seem to speak the truth about a host of things.” Trump isn’t just allowing corruption, in Dallek’s view, but encouraging it. "The fish rots from the head," he reminds.
http://www.newsweek.com/2017/11/10/trump-administration-most-corrupt-history-698935.html
The Women’s March Inspired Them To Run. Now They’re Unseating GOP Men.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/womens-march-inspired-democrats-unseating-gop-men_us_5a03099de4b06ff32c94cb55?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
'the place she calls Equalia'
Deletehttps://www.amazon.com/Attack-50-Ft-Women-Equality/dp/0008191158
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C2MVeM2K7WgqmJw5RCQbWyTo2u73CX1pI8zw_G-7BJo/edit#gid=0
ReplyDeleteDemocrats picked up 2 seats in the Georgia state legislature, too
ReplyDeleteA wave that’s bigger than Virginia.
https://www.vox.com/2017/11/7/16622128/georgia-election-results-state-senate
A transgender woman defeated a man who authored a bathroom bill in Virginia in Tuesday's election
ReplyDeleteDemocrat Danica Roem will be the first openly transgender state lawmaker in America, after winning a decisive victory for a seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates on Tuesday night.
Roem beat 13-term incumbent Del. Robert G. Marshall, a conservative Republican who authored a bill to restrict transgender people from using the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity (the bill never passed, ultimately).
Marshall hasn’t been shy about his anti-LGBTQ beliefs; he once called himself Virginia’s “chief homophobe.” Throughout the race, Marshall would not debate Roem or appear at the same campaign forums as her, the Washington Post reported. And in the runup to Election Day, the Virginia Republican Party paid for campaign fliers repeatedly referring to Roem in the wrong gender, with a header that read: “Danica Roem, born male, has made a campaign issue out of transitioning to female.”
Roem’s victory speech last night made it clear she does not plan to stoop to similar personal attacks once she starts in Virginia’s state legislature.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/8/16622890/danica-roem-transgender-candidate-virginia
"Russian Lawyer Says Trump Jr. Offered Deal"
ReplyDelete"Henry Meyer, Bloomberg News, talks with Rachel Maddow about his interview with Natalia Veselnitskaya and her claim that Donald Trump Jr. offered a potential deal on Russian sanctions in exchange for Hillary Clinton dirt."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-lawyer-says-trump-jr-204000368.html
Uh oh. Another back track and explaining and then dismissal.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it would be better under the Senate. I want Al Franken to take another bit bite out of Jeff Session’s ass.
But I’m patient. I’m willing to wait until Robert Mueller gets a shot at Sessions.
Will he show up for his testimony wearing his elf suit and pointy shoes with jingle bells on them?
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Didn't we go through this already?
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