Jeff Sessions, President Trump’s just appointed Attorney General, recused himself today from the investigation into the left’s fake pretence that Russia meddled with the Presidential elections and had ties to the Trump campaign. Sessions’ hasty retreat from a non-fight about a non-event is IMHO the Trump Administration’s first big mistake. This is not a miscalculation in the legal realm, it is a miscalculation in the PR war that the left, led by Obama, is waging against President Trump.
In January I posted here on FA, “The Coming War On America – by Soros/Obama/Democrats”. It has been evident that the movement leaders don’t care about America or its people. Their objective is and has been to lessen its presence and dominance. They cannot create jobs because they don’t know how. They have repeatedly demonstrated disdain for the Constitution, the very basis for why America exists and why it is probable that half of the world’s population wishes it could live in America.
In all my years of travel around the world, for both business and pleasure, other than a few self-righteous Canadians and Parisians, almost all people I met wished they could enjoy the Freedom available in America. The Soros and Obama crowd are determined to change that, all the while pretending that if you maintain borders you are a racist.
Sessions succumbed weakly to vacuous and counterfeit accusations promulgated by a corrupt media. Jeff Sessions is a solid, intelligent, but unassuming man, too virtuous to fight in the dark and sick trenches that socialists are ready, willing and able to drag people through.
The Administration should have stood firm and taken to task any Republicans who didn’t attack the preposterous accusations. It should have publicly impugned anyone not in support of Jeff Sessions.
Republicans have historically and consistently been failures in the realm of PR and marketing. Today they have a leader in President Trump who could solidify and deepen their support nationally. Every Republican should get some PR training and should be made to understand why there is such a thing as a “sound bite”. Instead what we have are mostly independent egos flapping their lips into the nearest microphone, without cohesive objective, or commission.
They didn’t learn from eight years of a consistently lying President. They didn’t learn from observing an Administration which used the bureaucracy as its own private army to decimate the opposition as evidenced by the IRS scandal. They didn’t learn from an Eric Holder who helped Obama stomp all over the Constitution and who launched such corrupt programs as Fast and Furious which resulted in the death of Americans.
President Trump should stop thinking that from Obama on down the line of socialists any of them might ever be his friends, or support him, or provide him intelligent advice. Washington is a vast nest of vipers and scorpions. Dealing with this breeding ground of hateful subversives is much different from the world President Trump has know for seventy years.
He should remind himself that nothing is ever as it seems.
Although he has surrounded himself with experienced and intelligent people, the President’s Chair is the most lonely place in the Nation and the glad-handers are all wielding daggers. He should launch at broad, take-no-prisoners investigation into the leaks he has suffered and into the thousands of Obama staffers still in position. Go after them hard and get them to talk. And make it ALL very public.
The stain of corruption that Obama has left behind throughout the government bureaucracy must be taken seriously, or the next four years will be a daily barrage of distracting and attention diverting insanity the anarchists, led by the Community-Organizer-In-Chief, will dispense. They are waging war.
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1. Al Franken threw down a new standard of legal proof of guilt:
not even one scintilla of doubt.
What if Obama’s entire WH Admin had been held to that impossible standard.
(Impossible because anyone can claim a scintilla of doubt even in the face of NO facts whatsoever.)
2. My impression had been that Ambassadors serve in the USA so they CAN meet with and talk with American officials all the time.
A sitting Senator is supposed to meet with various Ambassadors.
All Sen Sessions was, at the time, was a sitting Senator.
3. And twice is not the same as constant or continual. Sen Sessions met an Ambassador twice as Senator. Not constantly, continually or repeatedly.
4. Sen Sessions didn’t lie about this.
The Franken question wasn’t about twice. It was about repeatedly, continually, constantly.
And, how often has Al F. met that same Russian Ambassador?
5. Should Hillary be gone after?
Loretta Lynch?
Obama who did illegal meetings with Iran?
What different standards of proof are there for Dems?
Brit Hume Tweets:”The last time I was in the Senate dining room, Diane Feinstein was having lunch with the Russian Ambassador.
I never gave it a second thought.”
Sen Feinstein is the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
(One of Sen Sessions two “meetings” with this same Ambassador was giving a keynote address to 100 Embassy workers.
Here is that same Russian ambassador sitting with DEMOCRATS for President Trump’s speech Tuesday night.
https://twitter.com/TEN_GOP/status/837428361882263552
Sen Schumer?
Met with Putin!!!!
http://16004-presscdn-0-50.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/shumer-putin.jpg
It wasn’t only democrats who were of the opinion that Sessions had to recuse himself. Jason Chaffetz, republican head of the House Committee of Oversight and Government Reform, stated he must do so; House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy expressed a similar opinion; so did Senator Darrell Issa. Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio agreed; also Lindsey Graham. I head this same opinion expressed by a number of decidedly conservative and knowledgeable political commentators.
Sessions’ failure to disclose his private meeting with the Russian ambassador while answering questions under oath during his confirmation hearing is a big problem. While it could have all been perfectly innocent, he still hasn’t clarified what the purpose or subject of that meeting was—a failure to clarify the situation which hardly puts anyone’s mind at rest. Given that that the meeting occurred at a point during the campaign when Russian hacking and meddling were high profile election issues, it’s a little difficult to believe that the subject wouldn’t even have come up.
This is Trumps own fault by accepting the generals resignation, he put blood in the water, now a feeding frenzy for everyone of his picks and appointees. Now this another pound of flesh. Despite adding highly liberal crap to his agenda they still want a full coup. The media frenzy is interesting no less than 100 congress people asked Holder to resign through several real scandals crickets. AG meeting with the husband of a person under investigation, well its jut a chat about the grandkids. AG pleading the 5th when asked what she knew about ransom payments made to a terrorist nation, oh well muh.
@kitt: Payback’s a bitch Kitt. The Dems set the trap for Sessions and he STRODE into it. He said he didn’t speak to any Russians and they KNEW HE DID.
Dropped the bombshell the day after Trump’s acclaimed speech–what speech–they buried it.
Sessions looks the fool to all but the hard line Trumpists that frequent F.A.
He’d best stop digging.
obama is guilty of sedition and subterfuge, period.
and what Obama said to the Russian President on an open mic , nuffin
This is a typical CIA coordinated disinformation/regime-change operation…..
All the falsified news stories filtered through various news outlets…..typical foreign CIA destabilization, color revolution tactics…
President Trump needs to have AG Sessions instruct the DOJ to investigate whether the CIA is involved in coordinated sedition against the Trump Administration…
And, to issue an Executive Order cancelling the EO issued by O’Commie making CIA domestic disinformation activities legal….
You see, “Clinton wasn’t supposed to lose”
Obama’s COMMUNIST background is proof enough that he attempted a communist takedown of the United States while acting as a president (and is continuing to clandestinely do the same). Fellow Alinsky-trained activist Hillary Clinton was to complete the marxist revolution that O’traitor started.
President Trump & Attorney General Sessions need to begin showing some teeth: Obama needs to be investigated by the FBI under federal laws concerning sedition….fire Comey if he doesn’t get on it!
Presently, obama poses a domestic threat to the United States, a clear and present danger….
How often did this same Russian Ambassador visit with Obama when he was president?
22 time inside the WH alone.
Who knows how many more times elsewhere.
Obama was just being “flexible.”
Does anyone have a transcript of Sen Franken’s terrible, question to Sen Sessions?
That was the most twisted, screwed up hypothetical I have ever heard.
Would love to see it in print.
@Greg: Rob Portman is not a supporter of President Trump. He and the governor of OH refused to even meet Trump when he got off the airplane in Cleveland for the Republican Convention. His “conscience” prevented him from doing so. Conscience my a**. I thought it was ridiculous and shameful and downright poor manners. He has not cooperated with any of the Trump administration, continuing to snipe. He’s on my list! Republicans that care more about their own gravy train than the will of the American people. This is no surprise to me.
@Rich Wheeler: I watched the hearing and I knew when Franken asked the question that it was a set up. Just a feeling like what you might feel as you see a knife getting ready to stab you. All this stuff is the reason people hate the Federal Government. Sedition. All Feds must take an oath to uphold the constitution and I think plotting against the legally elected President qualifies. Republican RHINOs are a bunch of wussies and the reason I wanted them out. They never stood up for the people who elected them for the past 8 yrs.
@Rich Wheeler: You know who looks the fool Missouris rep said she had never met with a Russian then when pictures of her in a meeting popped up they accepted her clarification, but Sessions no he was made to be a liar or “hiding” something, People are thinking what a bunch of dumbf56ks. If they do find something real no one is going to pay attention.
Payback will be coming there is a trillion dollar liberal progressive infrastructure tax dollar burning coming wonder if the morons want anything for their district?
Sessions never should have recused himself, there was no reason to do so.
Kennedy colluded with the Russians in an attempt to defeat Reagan in 1984
@Songbird. #9:
Sessions should have given an informative and straightforward answer instead of an evasive answer. That he agreed to a private meeting with the Russian ambassador when Russian contacts and election meddling were already a matter of great concern, that he dodged disclosing and explaining that meeting when asked under oath, and that he has still failed to disclose the purpose and subject all argue against him.
How is it none of the growing list of Trump campaign associates who had private contact with Sergey Kislyak after the point the Russian hacking stories broke can remember anything about what was discussed?
What are people supposed to think about details like this one? Flynn, Kushner met Russian ambassador at Trump Tower in December
It’s not any one dot on the chalkboard that bothers people; it’s that there are so many, the overall pattern, and the fact that far more time and energy have been spent denying it’s there than explaining it.
With slanderous seditious accusations of former Senators and the new President from both sides of the aisle we needto become familiar with this http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/1/essays/22/rules-and-expulsion-clause
@kitt: I cannot locate through your link. Just get the opening page with categories. Cannot determine the location/ category to look in
@Nanny G, #7:
Presidents are expected to meet with foreign officials who represent both friends and adversaries on a regular basis. That’s not really the issue here. The issue is whether the Russians were attempting to alter the outcome of a presidential election, whether there was any sort of reciprocity involved in the situation, and whether people are concealing what they know from those officially charged with the business of finding out.
Lying under oath and lying to the FBI are serious matters. That someone can lie to the American public without any negative legal consequence sets no precedent regarding the possible outcome.
From The Daily 202: What Trump didn’t want you to see him signing. Or, to be fair, what the White House didn’t think would be of any particular interest. Boente is generally considered to be competent, fair-minded, and even-handed in his application of the law. It would be up to him to decide if a Special Prosecutor is appropriate.
@Greg: @Greg: Well that’s what your events says to you. I am not arguing any of that. I am saying I knew from the second he said it, I knew it was a set up; just the feeling that Franken knew something and was digging a hole for him. It Could be as simple as someone seeing the Russian Diplomat go into Sessions office. Then let’s figure out how to slander or keep the Russian conspiracy going. If there is illegal stuff going on, let’s see it. Politics! Ughhh
Of course it was a set up. obama and his inside operatives are behind this. obama is guilty of sedition and subterfuge. He should go to prison for the rest of his disgusting existence. That is where the investigation should be.
Video: CNN Deceptively Edits Sessions Confirmation Video
During March 3rd’s CNN “New Day”, anchor Alisyn Camerota again ran the edited confirmation hearing clip. We have presented the confirmation hearing segment and CNN’s deceptive edit of the complete question by Senator Franken to Jeff Sessions in context.
It always amuses me how the right’s estimation of Barack Obama’s capabilities can flip-flop between the incompetence of Three Stooges and the evil genius of Dr. Moriarty. It all seems to depend on the needs of the moment.
@Greg:
No, it isn’t. It isn’t even a small problem. He was asked, specifically, if he met with any Russians and discussed the campaign, not if he had ever met a Russian. Only partisan idiots jump on this like a duck on a June bug trying to convince themselves that this is a great big smoking gun. It is fantasy.
The entire Trump administration should do what Obama and his leftist thugs did repeatedly; tell everyone to kiss their asses and go whatever they wanted to do. Sessions had no reason to recuse himself and shouldn’t have. Anyone that thinks lawless liberals will respect anyone removing any shadow of a conflict of interests is deluding themselves. Liberals do not honor the law and they do not honor those who do. They cheat, lie and steal to take power from those who deserve it.
So are Senators, and a LOT of Democrat Senators met with this Ambassador. Is this why Romney lost the election?
He answered the question he was asked… specifically. All this is nothing but a liberal temper tantrum over losing an election they had bought and paid for. Worse, the left does not care how much damage is being done to the nation during their little fit.
Again, tell me exactly HOW the Russians altered the election? What did they do that caused Hillary to lose? You petty, whining, cry-baby liberals have absolutely no idea what you are even talking about.
Liberals oppose him like tey oppsed Clarence Thomas becuase they reject al the racial favoratism and afermative action OBE and the rest of what liberaal twats would force on us all
@Bill… Deplorable Me: #21
Bill. . . Deplorable Me,
When a Presidential campaign burns upward of $2 billion, as Clinton’s did, there has to be hell to pay, back-sides to cover, recriminations to dispense, finger pointing for deflection, scurrying for cover to hide from blame, etc. — it’s an enormous amount of money which the establishment threw into maintaining the status quo.
And now that very same establishment doesn’t care about the gofers marching in the streets and being organized into mobs. It cares only about preventing a complete destruction of the power centres it has taken so long to imbed into the Nation’s political, bureaucratic, and social systems.
Trump is the only politician in this last campaign who wasn’t bought and paid for. He’s the only one who has a chance of cleaning the decks.
@Songbird: http://archives.democrats.rules.house.gov/archives/jcoc2ac.htm
try this one, with a simple majority a member of congress an be punished.
this is criminal
http://nation.foxnews.com/2017/03/02/obama-doj-funneled-billions-liberal-activist-groups
Starting to follow the money.
@kitt:
The obama DOJ was a shakedown organization. We also khow many injustices were ignored by holder and lynch. obama is waging a silent coup.
Imagine any former president engaged in this type of treachery.
@July 4th American: Just seems weird that it gets funneled or laundered through Soros type orgs and the victims get nothing. We know these orgs donate to democrat campaigns, its a circle jerk.
All fines need to get put in a fund to repay victims or directly to the treasury dept.
They have already traced 3 billion, think any of that cash is funding sign printing for protests ect…
@Bill… Deplorable Me, #22:
This is the exchange in question, verbatim. It was entirely clear what Frankin was trying to get at. Session’s answer was a broad and categorical denial:
The spin intended to reframe that answer added later, by Sarah Isgur Flores:
No, Frankin was not asking such a conveniently narrowed-down question. Sessions acknowledge a connection with the with the Trump campaign with his own words. With the next breath, he denied communication with the Russians.
What are we supposed to think he meant? Well, except for Sergey Kislyak, of course, who doesn’t count as a Russian, and I temporarily ceased being a Trump campaign surrogate during the course of our private meeting—all of which goes without saying. Somehow that doesn’t quite work for me.
The story published by cnn was fake news, never happened. So any answer is moot at this point.
What kind of former president engages in this type of behavior. Attempting to take down a duly elected president. These are the actions of a communist. obama deserves its imprisonment, nothing less.
@Greg: In case you forgot, the ENTIRE LINE OF QUESTIONING was about Trump campaign contact with the Russians and vice versa. So, it is absolutely logical that Sessions was answering the question in that context. Likewise, it DEFIES logic to imagine Sessions was denying having ever met a Russian. But, you and your fellow whiners keep on trying. I guess it sure beats having to explain why liberals fail so miserably at governing, doesn’t it?
@July 4th American:
The kind that is a socialist piece of trash that cannot defend his ideology on its own merits.
I want to see the evidence the Evil Empire changed a single vote.
I know a warm and empathetic response to death of Employees under your charge. No one to this day knows what the POTUS was doing that night, and we want these POS in charge?
Thanks to that response she blew the election. The Russians hacked her big fat mouth.
No amount of dragging out democrat women that Trump could fondle will wipe out that perfect response.
We know it was not a film, but that guy did a year in jail.
The Russians did it.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xv3ici_cher-if-i-could-turn-back-time-official-music-video-hq_music
@Bill… Deplorable Me, #30:
I think that made it very clear what sort of contact with Russians the line of questioning is actually about.
President Trump found and mocked lots of contacts between this same Russian Ambassador and DEM officials who were, LIKE JEFF SESSIONS, just doing their jobs in meeting with him.
In Jeff Sessions defense it was Obama who set up his meetings with that Ambassador!
By mocking their denials then proving they “lied,” Trump has killed this “scandal.”
But, one thing we know: Dems never quit.
They are like cockroaches who keep coming back.
What will be their scandal of the day tomorrow?
@Greg: I told you how to spot fake news Greg
your quote contains ” a story alleging” and These documents also allegedly say….
get a clue, fake fake fake. No named source no quotes from this source no real references.
Evidence, facts, basics of journalism who, what, where, when and how.
Looks like Obama has moved #2 wife into the DC mansion, not uncommon for a Muslim http://conservativetribune.com/valerie-jarrett-moved-in-obamas/
@kitt, #34:
In the context of such a hearing, a phrase like “a story alleging” is an acknowledgement that the event referenced has not been established as fact. If it already had been, there would be no need for an investigation to determine whether it is or isn’t.
Sessions was being questioned to find things out. That’s the entire point of a confirmation hearing.
The entire Russian meme concocted by the democrats is a fake story. It is all that is left to try to attack President Trump.
So, the democrats are unable to engage in the arena of ideas. They are unable to do so because the American people soundly rejected them in 2016…..
obama and his henchmen should be locked up, for life.
This is subversive behavior while POTUS. This is where the investigation needs to be, not with AG Sessions. That is a ruse.
@Greg:
Its starting to dawn on you, why put it in the news if it isnt fact, they have been churning this crap out for weeks. You use it in your posts as if it were proven cause CNN or MSNBC mentioned it. No evidence, actually more evidence of Dems entanglement with Russia than Trumps team. Why do they lie when asked about meeting with an ambassador? What are they hiding? I can tell you they are hiding NOTHING, they just want to make it look like someone doing their jobs is nefarious. Are they trying to prove a republican was as evil as Ted Kennedy?
Go search the riverbanks, Democrats!
Do you realize that Obama had the republican campaign wiretapped? Does that sound a bit familiar?
@kitt:
In the moronic mind of greg, that is ok because obama is on their team, a democrat in name only. At heart, he is a communist, his life story is a story associated with communism.
obama is the embodiment of pure evil, a waste of human skin depriving others more worthy of the oxygen he steals with each breath.
At what point is it going to finally register with some people that they’ve put a person in the White House devoid of sound judgement, if not actually unhinged?
Trump, citing no evidence, accuses Obama of ‘Nixon/Watergate’ plot to wiretap Trump Tower
re #41:
From 1963. What goes around comes around.
Trump, this morning, on Twitter, at 3:35 AM:
At 3:49 AM:
At 3:52 AM:
At 4:02 AM:
This is simply not normal, and if you’re not concerned—knowing that this guy is in charge of the most powerful military force on the planet, complete with nuclear strike capabilities—you’re not paying close enough attention. It puts an entirely different spin on how that 3 AM phone call everyone once claimed to worry about might be processed. That thought should be crossing your mind about now, no matter whether you’re politically left, right, or in the middle.
President Trump is correct. obama is a dirtbag who tapped his phones. There is ample evidence that the piece of shit who calls himself obama is scum and secured fisa court approval to intercept communications of Trump’s campaign.
Only a moron Democrat who calls himself greg will not believe the evidence that confirms the facts .
Really greg, I thought all democrats were dumb but never realized they were this dumb.
@Greg: No, it isn’t normal for a sitting President to place wire taps on an opposition party candidate for President. Well, not normal in the United States. It is, however, the kind of thing that went on regularly in Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany. It’s called “totalitarianism”. And Obama is a fan of it.
Why do you suppose Trump “made up” such a story, so easily disproved? Because “he’s nuts”? You’ve denied truck-loads of EVIDENCE implicating Obama and Hillary in lies and crimes… and you convince yourself Trump does things you cannot explain (since you rule out facts) by believing he is simply “crazy”. You have deluded yourself to the extreme for as long as I have known you here… that delusion could be about to come crashing down.
This has yet to be etched in stone, but one thing to keep in mind is that Trump does not make these statements without having proof. The left leaps to its feet, flails their arms, rends their garments and then Trump spills the proof on them. So, while it has yet to be confirmed, I am cautious. But, knowing what I do about Obama, Lynch, Hillary and the Democrat party of today, I’ll just bet it’s true.
If true, it is sedition. It is Obama trying to undermine the legal election of President and, depending upon how long he kept the taps active (the taps were put in place in October; they could have been collecting information… well, till NOW) he could have known who Trump was going to nominate and begin devising the left’s plan to undermine the government. While yet to be proven, the taps make perfect sense.
Prepare yourself, Greg; we are going to find out if you have been lauding a traitor soon.
You can’t cite one single, solitary piece of evidence for that. Obama had no power to order such wiretaps. The entire story originated with some bat-shit crazy right-wing radio commentator, who apparently has the ear of the goofball currently occupying the White House. No president has such power, and any attempt to circumvent the laws that prevent such an order being carried out would immediately blow up in the face of whoever tried to get away with it. The leak would come immediately, and the media would have the story out by the following morning.
@Bill… Deplorable Me:
greg will revert the the phoney dossier and some proof that Trump coordinated with the Russians to defeat hillary. And Sessions was point man running the operation coordinating with Russian ambassadors.
greg believes hillary is the duly elected president and Trump must be removed so she can properly take her place in the oval orifice looking with a blacklight for those spooge stains from her husband having his dick suck by a twenty year old intern.
I would not rule out the fact that he probably screwed Monica numerous times in the oval office, some president eh?
This isn’t about Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is history. So is Barack Obama, for that matter. This is about what’s going on right now, in the present, and what could happen in the very near future, if somebody doesn’t figure it out.
Sad to say, that’s largely up to the GOP. Democrats are so politically disempowered they can’t do much more than jump up and down, shout, and point their fingers where somebody needs to look. There needs to be a full, unimpeded, non-partisan investigation to establish the facts of the situation, and then we need to deal with whatever those facts turn out to be.
There’s smoke everywhere, but some people keep insisting no one should check for a fire. That’s just plain crazy, considering what could be at risk. It’s also glaringly inconsistent with the fact that the GOP has spent years investigating any and every suspicion regarding their political opponents.
The facts are obama is engaged in seditious activities and should be imprisoned for life without parole.
Look at stooges like you ignoring facts well documented in front of your pathetic face.
It must suck to be you and live the miserable life you live.
ESAD
Here is where to post election mentally retarded democrats (greg) go for solice:
Fake News Site Lets Liberals Live In Alternate Reality Where Hillary Is President
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/20/fake-news-site-gives-liberals-alternate-reality-where-hillary-is-president/#ixzz4aOruljVV
It’s obvious enough what you are—and that isn’t reasonable. I try to resist the urge to return personal insults. They’re just a way people try to turn off any clear thinking and reasoned argument.