Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose

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  1. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Is that the spin rush and fox are giving you?

    RW propaganda fake news.

    3/17/2016
    Donald Trump’s senior policy adviser Stephen Miller is explaining the detailed role Sen. Jeff Sessions will play as chairman of Trump’s Foreign Policy Advisory Committee. ... or first time, Miller detailed the effort Sessions has poured into this new role. “Jeff Sessions has been meeting for hours now putting together a team of foreign policy advisers, military experts, [and] intelligence experts,”
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...bout-sessions-role-as-foreign-policy-adviser/

    Aug 14, 2016
    Top Trump foreign policy adviser Sen. Jeff Sessions says Republican nominee Donald Trump's campaign is "not over," and criticized media coverage claiming his campaign is in trouble.
    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-trump-adviser-jeff-sessions-trump-campaign/story?id=41358247

    When Sessions spoke with Kislyak in July and September, the senator was a senior member of the influential Armed Services Committee as well as one of Trump's top foreign policy advisers.
    http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2017/03/jeff_sessions_spoke_twice_with.html

    One was a visit in September in his capacity as a senator, similar to meetings with envoys from Britain, China, Germany and other nations, the department said. The other occurred in a group setting following a Heritage Foundation speech that Sessions gave during the summer, when several ambassadors — including the Russian ambassador — approached Sessions after the talk as he was leaving the stage.

    http://time.com/4688090/jeff-sessions-russian-ambassador-trump-campaign/

    The RW propaganda fake news machine is in high gear, we see.
     
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    cupAsoup Well-Known Member

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    Are you saying that sessions did not commit perjury? I know it's getting harder for trump apologists to defend their moron, but you're going to have to try harder than regurgitating the fake news shtick.

    Answer a simple question. Did Sessions commit perjury during his confirmation hearing?
     
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    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Exhibit G.

    Thank you for your continued support in proving my point that conservatives don't care about lying when Republicans do it.

    Why else would you select a known pathological liar as president?

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    Ah, now they slither to the conservatives' high moral standards: the moral equivalency.

    If someone else lied, it's just fine if our guy is a pathological, serial liar.
     
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    Your Best Friend Well-Known Member

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    Jeff Sessions was a senator on the foreign relations committee: He's met with lots of foreign officials and ambassadors. That was part of his job.

    The left ought to stop the bull crap and admit they have got nothing to support their hail mary prayer.
     
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    i made a typo, i left out "not". sessions met with russian officials, and he did not disclose that
     
  6. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Is that the RW propaganda fake news they're feeding you all?

    So was Brietbart lying when they reported that Sessions had taken a position as foreign policy and military advisor to the Trump campaign back in march 2016?

    The RW propaganda fake news machine is in high gear.
     
  7. mdrobster

    mdrobster Well-Known Member

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    wrong, if rwers want to act like sgt shultz, be my guest, but these accusations are real, and require answers.
     
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    No one asked him.
     
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    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Exhibit H.
     
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    mdrobster Well-Known Member

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    yeah right, rwers are in 100% denial mode :)
     
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    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I think the issue is Sessions lying about it.

    As for the rest of your post, it has (*)(*)(*)(*) all to do with anything I said here or the thread topic.
     
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    Disclose that as part of what? As a Senator there is nothing wrong with meeting with an Ambasador.

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    Then document what is the issue?
     
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    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So why did he lie then?
     
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    Just enjoying the dance show. :)
     
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    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Uh, disclosed as part of Sessions' statement "I did not have communications with the Russians."

    Man. One good thing about forums like this is that is helps explain who we could select a pathological liar and charlatan to be president.
     
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    ahem, sessions was part of the trump campaign, he was asked in a congressional hearing if he met with russian officials, he did, and denied he did under oath. there is nothing to argue, period, except for rwers being in complete denial :)
     
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    Why dont you provide the question before the answer.. Oh thats right then people would know the context.. One person is lying here and its not Sessions or myself.

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    Sessions met him as part of the campaign? Can you link to this earth shattering news?
     
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    lmao, all of it is on official record !!!!!! :)
     
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    Misled.

    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...ith-russian-ambassador-during-trumps-campaign
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    A spokeswoman for Sessions confirmed the contact with Kislyak, saying the attorney general spoke on the phone with the ambassador from his office in September. That conversation took place during a time when intelligence officials assert that Russia was interfering with the U.S. presidential election through a hacking and influence campaign.

    In July, Sessions attended a Heritage Foundation event at the Republican National Convention that was attended by some 50 ambassadors. A small group of ambassadors, including Kislyak, approached Sessions and talked to him informally, the Justice Department official told the Post.

    “It was short and informal,” spokeswoman Sara Isgur Flores told The Wall Street Journal.

    Flores said Sessions spoke to Kislyak in his capacity as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, not as a Trump surrogate, and was not trying to mislead fellow senators when he said during his confirmation hearing that he had not been in contact with Moscow.

    Later Wednesday night, Sessions said in a statement: “I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign. I have no idea what this allegation is about. It is false.”
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    What could Sessions have even discussed with the ambassador that would have had any effect on the campaign? The "hacking" consisted of accessing and leaking DNC emails, something that neither Sessions nor Kislyak would have had any involvement in. For crying out loud, this is just stupid.
     
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    How do you know he lied ? Maybe he is just dumb like Hillary and forgot or could not recall it
     
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    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I don't know, but apparently it was important enough for him to lie about it.
     
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    Then lol cite it.. You can not. So lol lmao rofl and another lol for (*)(*)(*)(*)s and giggles... so fun to post on your level.
     
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    Or so unimportant he forgot about it
     
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    i must have got it from the fake news !!! :)
     
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    What is? That he had a brief, informal meeting with Kislyak as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee? You've got nothing.
     

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