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WP: Sessions Met with Russia Twice Last Year, Didn't Disclose During Confirmation

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StoOgE said:
Yeah,

Trump may want to try and let Sessions live, because having someone in the AG slot this tight with Trump has a lot of usefulness to Trump for his own protection.

Bringing in a moderate Republican who isn't closely aligned with the Trump family would open up Trump to potential prosecution down the road.

I expect him to name is fucking family lawyer at this point.
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If Cohen replaces Sessions he may beat Jefferson Beauregard's record for shortest stint as Attorney General.

Dude is up to his eyes in borscht.
 
What is Trump supposed to say? Sessions is the guy between him and an investigation. They're going to probably do everything they can to discredit this report and Sessions from recusal or resignation.
 
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This thing about Comey withholding information from the House Intelligence Committee is rather interesting. On the one hand, is Comey playing the pro-Trump partisan role here? Or is he worried that Nunes, being both a Trump transition adviser and the head of the House committee, would give away everything the FBI knows to the White House while the investigation was still ongoing (and thus, compromise the investigation)?
 
BlastProcessing said:
@ericgeller
Extraordinary rebuke of the FBI director by the top House Intelligence Committee Democrat. https://t.co/7YxFsk1teM
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@lrozen
Laura Rozen Retweeted Niels Lesniewski
does that suggest he is worried about conflicts of interest btw comm and trump associates being investigated?

@ericgeller
Eric Geller Retweeted Laura Rozen
This is key. Comey didn't want to tell WH about Flynn b/c he worried it might impair investigation. What if he has a similar fear w/ Nunes?​

Fascinating.
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Yep, Comey and the FBI have something very significant and damaging, and they're keeping it tightly under wraps for good reason. The FBI and the IC's body language, so to speak, are screaming it loudly. The next few years are going to be interesting.
 
Extollere said:
So, this means he'll definitely resign then :P
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BronsonLee said:
This sounds familiar
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KHarvey16 said:
I've seen this movie.
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BrassDragon said:
He was warned. He was given an explanation. Nevertheless, he persisted.
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-Plasma Reus- said:
This is a rerun of the previous episode isn't it,
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Pandora012 said:
You're Fired
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D4Danger said:
The dreaded vote of confidence
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-Plasma Reus- said:
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Lmfao. 😂😂
 
D4Danger said:
Surely they realise he wasn't personally going around the world finding this information, right? That's why a lot of it can't be verified because it's just a collection of stories and innuendo. It's like reading someone's notes. It was the people he gave it to that's job it was to do something with it.
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You're missing the bigger picture. This means they're giving it enough credence to sit down and talk to Steele.
 
Giganteus said:
Yep, Comey and the FBI have something very significant and damaging, and they're keeping it tightly under wraps for good reason. The FBI and the IC's body language, so to speak, are screaming it loudly. The next few years are going to be interesting.
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Few years? Why can't we wrap this shit up by summer?
 
Meus Renaissance said:
Trump's cabinet picks resigning won't mean he'll hire progressive ones to replace them. His policies won't change.
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Except we got a large improvement for NSA when Flynn was dumped and replaced with McMaster, so that claim doesn't hold up. There are amoeba floating in the ocean that would make better AGs than Sessions, and you say "His policies" as though Sessions did not bring his own agenda and policies of his own, including his extremely racist agenda for minorities and police, his Voter ID bullshit, his anti-marijuana and pro-private prisons deal (which are both linked).

While those are reflective of the GOP in general, Sessions was aggressively for all those. It wasn't like he was simply some mouthpiece for Trump, he was very much doing his own damage to the country and his being booted out would be a huge win, especially given he'll have lost his senate seat in the process.
 
Gutek said:
You're missing the bigger picture. This means they're giving it enough credence to sit down and talk to Steele.
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Right but what is he supposed to be able to add to what they already know? He's not going to burn his sources is he. They were already taking it seriously.
 
mnannola said:
A Timeline of Jeff Sessions’s Trump Ties and Meetings With Russia

So looks like Kislyak meet with Sessions the first time just a few days after the hack was executed. We are supposed to believe that this didn't come up at all in that meeting? That the Russians didn't even hint at it, like "Stay tuned in the next few days, the election may take a turn in Trumps favor"?
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Don't forget that Giuliani also opened his racist mouth to claim the Podesta emails were coming.
 
D4Danger said:
Right but what is he supposed to be able to add to what they already know? He's not going to burn his sources is he. They were already taking it seriously.
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"They" were, but the American people were not. The American people would believe his shit a lot more if he was front and center, on tape, literally talking about his methods and past experience and we had a ton of news stories about that. It'd be fucking huge.
 
mnannola said:
A Timeline of Jeff Sessions’s Trump Ties and Meetings With Russia

So looks like Kislyak meet with Sessions the first time just a few days after the hack was executed. We are supposed to believe that this didn't come up at all in that meeting? That the Russians didn't even hint at it, like "Stay tuned in the next few days, the election may take a turn in Trumps favor"?
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If the Russian ambassador to the U.S. told a U.S. senator and Trump campaign surrogate "Stay tuned in the next few days, the election may turn in Trump's favor" and then a few days later Wikileaks began dumping Democratic emails obtain by Russian hackers, then that ambassador is going to be fucking executed by Putin. I cannot imagine a dumber implementation of international espionage than that. :lol
 
Ithil said:
Except we got a large improvement for NSA when Flynn was dumped and replaced with McMaster, so that claim doesn't hold up. There are amoeba floating in the ocean that would make better AGs than Sessions, and you say "His policies" as though Sessions did not bring his own agenda and policies of his own, including his extremely racist agenda for minorities and police, his Voter ID bullshit, his anti-marijuana and pro-private prisons deal (which are both linked).

While those are reflective of the GOP in general, Sessions was aggressively for all those. It wasn't like he was simply some mouthpiece for Trump, he was very much doing his own damage to the country and his being booted out would be a huge win, especially given he'll have lost his senate seat in the process.
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There is also the concept of political capital, the more Trump takes losses like this the more his political capital diminishes.
 
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