Primer On How To Interpret The Attacks On Jeff Sessions
BY Herschel Smith7 years, 8 months ago
News from the rectum of America.
Some congressional Republicans were quick to agree Thursday with Democrats calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election, following leaks and media reports that Sessions met with Moscow’s ambassador twice last year.
The allegations, leaked from intelligence sources, were first reported by The Washington Post.
“I have not met with any Russians at any time to discuss any political campaign,” Sessions said Wednesday evening when confronted with the allegations. “And those remarks are unbelievable to me and are false. I don’t have anything else to say about that.”
A Sessions spokesperson elaborated on why Sessions had been truthful.
“He was asked during the hearing about communications between Russia and the Trump campaign — not about meetings he took as a senator and a member of the Armed Services Committee,” Sessions spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores explained.
In January, Sessions was asked by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) for answers to written questions, including if he had “been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after Election Day?” The attorney general was not asked if he had been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government for any reason during the entire course of the year.
Nevertheless, a number of Republicans were quick to give in to the media narrative.
During a town hall with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on CNN Wednesday evening, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) said that if Sessions had spoken with the Russian ambassador, “then for sure you need a special prosecutor.”
Graham did later call demands for Sessions’ resignation “crazy” in a series of Thursday tweets, but added “Sessions needs to explain his contacts with the Russian ambassador during his service as a Senator – that’s appropriate.”
“AG Sessions should clarify his testimony and recuse himself,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) tweeted early on Thursday.
“I think, the trust of the American people, you recuse yourself in these situations,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Thursday morning.
McCarthy, in a later appearance on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” backtracked and said he wasn’t calling on Sessions to recuse himself.
“I’m not calling on [Sessions] to recuse himself,” McCarthy said. “It’s amazing how people spin things so quickly.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) joined in during an appearance on NPR on Thursday morning. “It is potentially the case that there is going to be Justice Department recommendations or referrals based on anything regarding the campaign, he said. “Depending on what more we learn about these meetings, it could very well be that the attorney general, in the interest of fairness and in his best interest, should potentially ask someone else to step in and play that role.”
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Not every Republican declined to defend Sessions, however.
“What we are seeing is a lot of political theater,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on “Morning Joe.”
“This morning, everyone is in high dudgeon about the meeting,” Cruz continued. “The underlying meeting is a nothing burger. It’s what senators do every day. Meeting with foreign ambassadors, that’s part of the job,” he said.
“I think everyone is getting all worked up because it’s a chance to beat up the attorney general and to beat up the president,” said Cruz.
Mark my words. Hear me carefully. Every politician, from democrats to republicans (most democrats, Graham, Rubio, McCain, McCarthy, etc.) who calls for a full investigation into the awful Russian things, they know not what they are, is hiding something.
Every … one … of … them … is compromised by or implicated in pedogate, nation toppling in North Africa, oil plays, money laundering, human trafficking, human organ harvesting, weapons and precious metals, along with DynCorp, the CIA, the State Department, the Clinton Global Initiative, and part of the FBI (Andrew McCabe, call your office). Every one of them.
Cruz is not implicated. Read it all again. Their words prove them out. It’s easiest when the guilty self identify. It makes our job quicker.
This all has nothing whatsoever to do with Russia. It’s all a smokescreen to hide the real evil, a subterfuge, a magician’s distraction from the real trick. But not a good one for educated men and women. We all know better.
Death to the deep state.
On March 2, 2017 at 11:31 pm, TheAlaskan said:
Hear hear…”Death To The Deep State.”
On March 3, 2017 at 8:41 am, Fred said:
I agree. They go on the attack to try and deflect from their own many crimes for which Sessions could prosecute. Politics.
On March 3, 2017 at 10:46 am, Suzanna said:
I shared the “Every…one…of…them” paragraph on TBP.
The good people on that blog deserve to read your material.
Needless to say, this is my theory as well.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/
another share, irresistible: Porter’s tweet
Porter
@porter14159
Can’t wait for the investigation into Mexico’s meddling in our elections by sending millions of its citizens to vote in them directly.
https://kakistocracyblog.wordpress.com/
Captain, I hope you approve.
Suzanna
On March 3, 2017 at 11:13 am, Herschel Smith said:
Ha! That’s such a great remark on Mexican meddling in our election.
Thanks.
(comment of the day)
On March 3, 2017 at 1:42 pm, OhioGuy said:
Comrade Igor wonders why the RINOs can’t pull off a photo-op like The Man with No Eyebrows did after the House impeached Bubba …. and come out FOR Sessions
so far I hear from RINOweenies [ Chaffetz, Issa, philanderer McCarthy and of course McCain and his Bitch ] talking about whatever mumblemumbleequivocatemumble
not one except Cruz has come out and called Bolshoi on the most corrupt body in the world and its’ residents, D & R
Comrade Igor
On March 3, 2017 at 1:54 pm, Herschel Smith said:
McCain has two bitches. One of them is from Florida.
On March 3, 2017 at 3:48 pm, Hoss Green said:
It isn’t surprising at all to hear that, John “Song Bird” McCain, and Sen. Lindsey Graham were there to join the opposition.
On March 3, 2017 at 4:56 pm, ST said:
AMEN!!!!
On March 3, 2017 at 11:04 pm, Rodger Rammer said:
“Death to the deep state.” Yes! But how?
On March 4, 2017 at 5:06 pm, DAN III said:
Rammer,
Bloodshed.