Sessions announces recusal from Russia-related probes, denies misleading Congress

Sessions was a fricking Senator at the time. He was conducting Senatorial business when meeting with the Russian Ambassador, not election business as a Trump surrogate like you and you alt-lefty friends are trying to make it out to be.

Stop making crap up!

 

You should probably re-read your own post:

At the time Sessions met with the Russian Ambassador, Sessions was an advisor to the Trump campaign.

Seriously ?

 

See how easy that was? You just admitted Sessions lied by owning up to grapeape's post that "he met the Russian ambassador two times", when Sessions, during his hearing, said he had not communicated with the Russians. Do you understand the difference in that?

 

Senators dont negotiate with foreign countries.......NEXT !!!!

 

No one is making anything up. All we are doing is quoting Sessions. And those quotes along with the actual truth found, don't match up.

 

Funny that the ones attempting to literally sabotage OUR federal government are calling us cultists, that's very amusing. I consider myself a patriotic American fighting the smears against Mr. Sessions.

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Now try to prove that Sessions acted in THAT capacity in his meeting with the ambassador. You can't, those political hacks can't and THEY know it. So what is this? A dirty smear job. It's blackmail Chicago politics. It's the backroom (*)(*)(*)(*).

 

Well, if you're not in the tank for Trump. I hope your political poison of choice doesn't poison Colorado, since Colorado came up intelligently blue last year.

Some things wrong with this post.
1. Sessions knows he's guilty as sin. His denial doesn't smell fishy at all, does it?
2. You lack to give a credible source for the information.
3. You assume Trump is capable of learning, when its obvious he can't. He and his sons couldn't vet out the list of people for his train-wreck cabinet properly, so they got a bunch of Russian-connected loons, like Rex Tillerson (its only moments until his bombshells start dropping). And now you got clueless Rick Perry as energy sanctuary, who couldn't properly count in the 2011 debates, and Ben Carson in charge of HUD. What does a surgeon know about housing in urban developments? Nothing. Don't you think Trump is simply hollow inside, a deer in the headlights? He picks the most clueless of people to fill his everglades with.

4. The left are not "rabid," and the radical portion makes up a small chunk of the Democratic Party.
5. Enough with Hillary Clinton, the woman is more decent than Trump and Pence and their families combined, Pence used a private server as a government official, let the dogs out on him. Or are you afraid of looking like a hypocrite?

 

Who said anything about negotiating?

 

Sessions was asked by Al Franken if he met with anybody from the Russian government in the capacity of a Trump surrogate and Sessions said no which is correct and not a lie.

Sessions met the Russian ambassador twice as a Senator conducting Senatorial business like Senators do when they are fricking Senators.

Hello! Anybody home????

 

He isn't in a jam that's Democrat hype.

He didn't say he didn't remember it...He spoke to multiple ambassadors before he was a Trump supporter in another capacity.

The whole thing was made up by Al Franken...the failed comedian/senator. Sessions was honest why do you say he is dishonest?

 

Hats? What discussion do you think you are in? This isn't Etsy you know.

Not when the private citizen's wife is under investigation. And, if there was nothing untoward why did she wash her hands and lay everything off to the FBI? The FBI is supposed to bring her evidence and she is supposed to decide on a course of action...not the other way around. Just how brainwashed do some of you have to be not to see the truth?

That is not the point.

 

if Session has nothing to hide and nothing to fear, he should not chicken out.
Hell, he's a veteran lawyer and even an attorney general, how could he defend others if he could not defend himself.
OMG.

 

They can't seem to get through their heads. Or maybe they do but their blind hate for Trump goes deep.

 

I simply can't understand what is supposedly the lie.

 

...or Ronnie Reagan, the hero of the right, for that matter.

 

Well then, as a 'patriot' should you not wait until the results of this fiasco come to light, rather than your apparently lock-step support of your party affiliation? 'My party, right or wrong'?

 

exactly..
answer the mans question, what was the lie?

Kind of embarrassing to the left when they realize there is no lie and yet they rant on incessantly,

In my opinion this simply means they watch 5 minutes of CNN and suddenly have all the info they need to be experts on any given subject

 

Good lord man......

Sessions said he never had any contact with the Russians. Then when forced he admits he did. He flat out lied to congress about it. Now why would you do that if your meeting with them in an official role a a senator ? Trump and his campaign have said since as late December that they "had no communication with Russia", Now we know there have been 3 confirmed meeting between them, all 3 found by the press and after incontrovertible evidence against them they admit to it, and you still defend it.

Ask yourself this simple question.....WHY would you lie about this if it was "nothing", or if your acting in an official capacity as a senator ?

Hell when Flynn did it it was OK because he was doing it as a "private citizen". Now Sessions gets caught and its because "he is a senator"......good lord

And remember, the right tried to impeach Bill Clinton because he lied about getting a hummer while "under oath". Now that they have been caught lying about talking to a foreign power, the right keeps defending it. Hypocrisy on high !!!

 

Then why was he meting with a Russian official ?

 

Your just embarrassing yourself now. You know exactly what Franken asked. It wasn't a leader, he asked "what would you do if you found out someone affiliated with the Trump campaign met with the Russians". Sessions answered that questions with "I have never met with the Russians". Sessions offered up something that he wasn't asked.

It doesn't matter why Sessions met with the Russians. HE LIED UNDER OTH. And why would you lie about something like that if it was official senatorial business......

 

It's curious too, that Sessions would hold a private meeting with the Russians in his capacity of the Armed Services Committee, as he claimed ...but wouldn't tell fellow members

of the Armed Services Committee.

 

This Russia stuff is just plain stupid.

First anyone with common sense can see Sessions answered appropriately. Franken said there was a report accusing Trump serrogates of having continual conversations with Russia officials. Franken even didn't expect Sessions to know about it because the claim was breaking news. Sessions said he was unaware of anything and that as a serrogates he didn't have any communication with Russia and couldn't comment further.

Second, there are requirements that need to be satisfied for a charge of perjury. One of those is the statement must be false. To be false, the statement cannot be interpreted in a innocent manner. Clearly his statement can.

This is how Hillary was not charged over the classified email statements. It was determined her explanation of being too stupid to recognize marked or unmarked classified material was reasonable.

 

Your statement is false.

 

Uh Oh.

"Jeff Sessions used campaign funds to travel to convention meeting he said was part of official Senate business"

WSJ: https://t.co/pwxWWyflVM

 

"At the Jan. 10 hearing, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., asked Sessions about allegations that associates of the Trump campaign corresponded with Russian government intermediaries. In his response, Sessions said he didn’t communicate with any Russians. (That comment is in bold.)



Franken: "CNN just published a story alleging that the intelligence community provided documents to the president-elect last week that included information that quote, ‘Russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump.’ These documents also allegedly say quote, ‘There was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump's surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government.’


"Now, again, I'm telling you this as it's coming out, so you know. But if it's true, it's obviously extremely serious and if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?"

Sessions: "Senator Franken, I'm not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I didn't have — did not have communications with the Russians, and I'm unable to comment on it."



...In a separate questionnaire, Sessions more directly denied personally contacting any Russian officials regarding the 2016 election.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., asked:

"Several of the President-elect’s nominees or senior advisers have Russian ties. Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?"

Sessions responded, in total: "No."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...t-what-jeff-sessions-told-al-franken-about-m/