America’s top law enforcement compromised. Jeff Sessions LIED under Oath to Congress about Trump-Russian ties. Oh, what a tangled web we weave; when first we practice to deceive. How in the living hell can Jeff Sessions #DOJ investigate Trump-Russian ties when intelligence says he spoke to Russian ambassador TOO? HE MUST RESIGN! He’s unfit for office. Then LOCK HIM UP‼️
Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow during Sessions’s confirmation hearing to become attorney general.
One of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that took place in September in the senator’s office, at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential race.
The previously undisclosed discussions could fuel new congressional calls for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russia’s alleged role in the 2016 presidential election. As attorney general, Sessions oversees the Justice Department and the FBI, which have been leading investigations into Russian meddling and any links to Trump’s associates. He has so far resisted calls to recuse himself.
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. Sessions played a prominent role supporting Trump on the stump after formally joining the campaign in February 2016.
Remember this TURD, SESSIONS LIED UNDER OATH, and is still ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
https://twitter.com/Impeach_D_Trump/status/838116087275257856
https://twitter.com/cinemaven/status/838036521525596160
https://twitter.com/samdolnick/status/838094714431762432
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/838041055014567936
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/837521373530468353
UH HUH What’s Bobby Rush doing hovering about there?
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/837522070279876608
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/837434357929345024
Jeff Sessions ain’t got to go home but he needs to get the hell out of that AG position. He’s unfit to serve as attorney general. He LIED UNDER OATH!
https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/837477521373290496
WE ALREADY KNOW THAT JAMES COMEY AIN’T SHIT
The cases of George Zimmerman and Darren Wilson needs looking into. Both should be in a prison cell.
and what about all of those church burnings after Dylan Roof was apprehended?
ALWAYS, FOLLOW THE MONEY$$$$$$$$
I guarantee, if you follow the $$$ with US NEWS magazine, there will BE RUSSIAN TIES.
I am sooooooo enjoying these comments, ladies!
Did #JeffSessions ask the FBI to block the Russia investigation before he recused himself? A subpoena for the FBI? #FixItJesus
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/837393257365655552
https://twitter.com/mic/status/837338624144338945
No way in HELL, would a BLACK MAN ever get this far as POTUS with this much SHIT going down.
UGLY, DIRTY, SCANDALOUS, and they are still trying to prop up this MOFO #45
DHS doc calls travel ban into question.
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/837488458373414912
https://twitter.com/jsavite/status/837487978305974272
#Maddow Watching Rachel. My head is spinning. Did #JeffSessions ask the FBI to block the Russia investigation before he recused himself?
Carter Page: “I never shook any of their hands”. LOL
https://twitter.com/SophieS_2014/status/837475290263748608
https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/837468208827228160
Carter Page on All In With Chris Hayes.
waiting on these folks.
OMG! The entire cabinet is compromised.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/837443840135081991
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/837443577236049920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Hmmmph
It’s Raining Shoes in the Jeff Sessions Affair Today
Kevin Drum
Mar. 2, 2017 6:53 PM
OK, I’m back from lunch. Have any more shoes dropped in the Jeff Sess—
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday he will recuse
himself from any investigations related to the 2016 presidential
campaign, which would include any Russian interference in the electoral process….The announcement comes a day after The Washington Post revealed that Sessions twice met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and did not disclose that fact to Congress during his confirmation
hearing.
Okey doke. I guess we all saw that coming. Anything el—
Michael T. Flynn, then Donald J. Trump’s incoming national security
adviser, had a previously undisclosed meeting with the Russian
ambassador in December to “establish a line of communication” between the new administration and the Russian government, the White House said on Thursday. Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and now a senior adviser, also participated in the meeting at Trump Tower with Mr. Flynn and Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador.
Huh. Well, Kushner is supposedly going to be dealing with foreign policy issues, so I suppose that makes sense. It’s all above board and—
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/837412645112205314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Putin Demands Sessions Resign from Russian Government
MOSCOW (The Borowitz Report)—In a stunning rebuke of the Attorney General, Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that Jeff Sessions resign from the Russian government “at once.”
Speaking at the Kremlin, Putin said that the controversies swirling around Sessions in Washington “no longer make it possible for Jeff Sessions to function as an integral part of the Kremlin team.”
Putin asserted that Sessions had “become a distraction,” and ordered the Alabama native to clear out his desk at the Kremlin “by Friday morning at the latest.”
While Kremlin sources said that forcing Sessions’s resignation was “a necessary measure,” they would not guarantee that he was the only member of the Trump Cabinet who would be expelled from the Russian government.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/putin-demands-sessions-resign-from-russian-government?mbid=nl_030217 Borowitz Newsletter (1)&CNDID=24441272&spMailingID=10542603&spUserID=MTMzMTgyNDUyMzAyS0&spJobID=1120182869&spReportId=MTEyMDE4Mjg2OQS2
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/837451604727058433
https://twitter.com/Wanderer19/status/837443658265722880
https://twitter.com/RepMcGovern/status/837425906218057728
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/837429571477770241
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/837415737069293568
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/837414124896190464
https://twitter.com/howardfineman/status/837412890776850435
So Sessions is recusing himself?
Breaking News: #JeffSessions will recuse himself from the Russia investigation.
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Recusal is not enough. RESIGN. You LIED under Oath.
NOPE, MOFO NEEDS TO RESIGN.
Because he will still be lurking around the DOJ bullying folks!
https://twitter.com/CAPAction/status/837360383685971969
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/837404575913082880
https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/837399403417698309
Interesting how #45 camp puts out statement saying he has full confidence in Beauregard, then Beauregard holds presser at 4 p.m.
https://twitter.com/OversightDems/status/837392517851197440
The. Heat. Is. On.!!!!!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/DefenseBaron/status/837377051309010944
See how this works, folks? #45 & his merry band of white supremacists want to racially profile, detain, deport, steal our basic human rights to health care, fair housing, voting rights, etc., while they LIE, COMMIT CRIMES, DON’T PAY TAXES, CAVORT WITH RUSSIAN SPIES, etc.
SO UN-AMERICAN, AMIRIGHT?
Breaking: #JeffSessions will hold a news conference at 4pm
UH HUH
UH HUH
We must not let up on the MEDIA.
Don’t allow them to bait & switch stories to distract from #45 & his MERRY BAND of RUSSIAN ASS-KISSING, TRAITOROUS, ANTO-AMERICAN COHORTS, with fake spontaneous news of Yemen miracles and such!
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/837380996672667648
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/831365146190680064
YEP, IT WAS GOODBYE FLYNN..
BE GONE, SESSIONS!
Bush Ethics Lawyer Says Sessions Must Go
by Martin Longman
March 2, 2017 1:07 PM
Richard W. Painter, who served as the Bush administration’s chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007, was pretty quick to put together a little opinion piece for the New York Times after news broke last night that Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied during his confirmation hearing.
He wants us to know that this has happened before and that it had very specific consequences:
https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/837393057133768704
BWA HA HA HA HA
#45 to Sessions:
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Whatever happened to proper VETTING of nominees, to ensure that they don’t become a complete and UTTER embarrassment later?
Of course #45 never thought of this at all did he? He’s so wrapped up in his own world.
It’s only a matter of time, before he goes down too. I HOPE HE GETS BURNED TO A CRISP.
https://twitter.com/DerekAWeakley/status/837383822534660096
https://twitter.com/richardhine/status/837361091151822849
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/837380276208582656
BWA HA HA What else is Cheeto Bandito going to say?
These Russian-ass-kissing mofos are covering up for each other, but the TRUTH will be REVEALED.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyBxBuL_jUU
UH HUH
Has anyone heard #45 say he has confidence in Sessions, or is it just HEAR-SAY?
https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/837370983925366784
Seriously, Trump already knew Sessions ties to RUSSIA. He wouldn’t have chosen him otherwise. THE WEB is getting mighty big and tight.
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/837339182922100736
And then prosecute him! Crimes were committed.
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/837297052501573632
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/837360097978376192
Loretta be like:
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/837344801951449088
bwa ha ha ha ha All these folks met with the Russian ambassador on their own? OK THEN!
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/837363809564131328
Sounds as if they are going to have him resign as they did with Flynn.
https://twitter.com/samswey/status/837130637807087616
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/837143509094264832
From BJ:
Yarrow says:
March 2, 2017 at 11:21 am
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This is what I’ve been saying. The IC is leaking out information. They got Flynn out. They will get Sessions out. They know how deep these Russian connections are. They know what Trump has done, is doing. The know there are Russian agents in the White House. They need those people gone because until they are the IC can’t do their jobs.
So they’ll keep leaking information. They want Congress to do their jobs but if they don’t or won’t, then they’ll start leaking information about Members of Congress. The Republicans are in this up to their eyeballs. Their best move is to demand full investigations now, but they can’t because they will be implicated. They hope to avoid that, but they won’t. The longer it goes on, the worse it will be for them.
Tick tock, motherfuckers.
Recusal NOT enough. #JeffSessions need to RESIGN as Attorney General and be charged with perjury. He LIED under Oath. That’s a crime.
Rep. Elijah Cummings: Sessions Should Resign Over Russian Conversations
March 2, 2017·7:38 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with a Russian diplomat ahead of the presidential election. Rachel Martin talks to Rep. Cummings who thinks Sessions should resign because he didn’t disclose it.
AUDIO: http://www.npr.org/2017/03/02/518110253/rep-elijah-cummings-sessions-should-resign-over-russian-conversations
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/837338214503436288
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/837338969746653188
CaC Sessions understood the question very well. Don’t be fooled. He’s a fucking attorney, and he knows how to play the game.
He’s way too arrogant. Been getting away with ISH in Alabama his whole life. He’s trying hard to cover his ass. NOT. GOING. TO. WORK.
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/837323423940476932
https://twitter.com/OversightDems/status/837143744201764864
yes; I heard Rep Cummings on NPR this morning. Link to audio is downthread
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/837343581098631168
He’s a LIAR, Just like Cheeto Bandito #45. And they need to get #45 too, it’s only a matter of time. the GOP will try and milk him for all they can get with his small hands and a pen, they throw him overboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M4TPTAbalE
KARMA! It’s what’s for dinner ‼️
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/837334307404406784
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/837335136869941248
If all the branches fall off the tree will it make a sound?
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/837187758900805636
Breaking: Nancy Pelosi: Sessions “LIED UNDER OATH” to the Senate. He’s “unqualified” and “unfit” to be Attorney General. #JeffSessions
Jeff Sessions Should Resign
The Attorney General blatantly lied during his confirmation hearing.
by Martin Longman
March 2, 2017 12:24 AM
Before we discuss whether or not Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III perjured himself during his Attorney General confirmation hearings, let’s look at what he said about President Bill Clinton perjuring himself in front of a grand jury and what he thought that meant for his fitness to serve as the “chief law-enforcement officer of the land.”
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You know, it’s fair to say that the president is the chief law enforcement officer of the land, but it’s also accurate to say that about the Attorney General. The president wears a lot of hats, and he basically relies on his Attorney General and the Department of Justice to enforce the law. The buck ultimately stops with Donald Trump, but it’s more accurate to say that Jeff Sessions is in charge of law enforcement. By his own standard, if he committed perjury in a congressional hearing, “equal justice demands that he forfeit his office.”
So, why don’t we watch a little video of Jeff Sessions lying to Sen. Al Franken during his confirmation hearing.
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I don’t know if there are big or small coincidences, or just coincidences, but it would be some kind of coincidence if the only guy on the Senate Armed Services Committee who was serving as a surrogate to Trump was the only member to meet with the Russian ambassador and it didn’t have anything to do with the campaign.
I need to go back and look at the September 8th timeframe and see how it checks out with stories that were unfolding at the time, as well as things that were suggested in the British dossier.
There is so much smoke here at this point that we’re either looking at a volcano or the shadow of a smoking gun.
Sessions knew what Franken and Leahy were asking and he knew why they were asking it. He lied.
https://twitter.com/MaxineWaters/status/837319991905103872
Yep
Kay says:
March 2, 2017 at 10:32 am
Sessions is still saying he will recuse himself “if necessary”. This is this amazingly arrogant attitude Republicans have adopted- that they and they alone determine ethical issues. You know what this is? It’s elitist. Mere mortals have to follow rules. The powerful make their own rules and we can trust them to do that because they are IN FACT better than other people. It is offensive to even question whether they are self-interested.
For ordinary people criminal justice is a set of bright-line rules and demands and they comply. They comply because they know they will get hammered if they don’t. He thinks the rules and laws that apply to every person they parade thru in belly chains and plastic slippers are a matter of his personal discretion.
It can’t BE any reason than he thinks he’s better. That’s the only explanation.
They are turning their own justice system into a joke. No regular person will have ANY faith in it and they shouldn’t. It’s two-tiered. Blatantly.
That CRACKA ASS CRACKA, NEEDS TO GO.
Sessions is an arrogant mofo. Charges need to be brought against him. Sessions brought vote fraud charges against black men with NO evidence. Karma is red hot on his heels. It’s time to pay the piper.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/837324500760920069
https://twitter.com/TheAPJournalist/status/837323222165123072
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/837322126898135040
Breaking: Senator Schumer calls on Jeff Sessions to resign
https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/837160714339041284
This is on point
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/837320578780573696
Finally, Claire comes out of cloistered state of MO.
https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/837315505383931907
From BJ:
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/837317978861469698
Yep
https://mobile.twitter.com/AJentleson/status/837146596949245959?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
@Aleta: Russian ambassador goes to the Senate office building and there are no records?
Laura Rozen
sessions IDd at state/Heritage Fdn event as snr Trump natl sec. adv, kislyak invited him to lunch, sessions declined
Laura Rozen
so sessions thought enough about convo w kislyak to decline the lunch, but did not think worth correcting record that he had met him?
Laura Rozen
double taked when ranking House Judiciary Dem Elijah Cummings on npr today said they are told kislyak is top russian spy in US
Laura Rozen
WP’s Entous on NPR said Sessions met with Kislyak second time in sept in his senate office. sessions’ office not sure there are notes 1/
Laura Rozen
I wonder if there is US surveillance of calls from russians to Russia afterwards about what was discussed, how this came to light 2/
Laura Rozen
so sessions declined lunch at Kislyak’s home in july bc already concerns abt russia hacking issue
Laura Rozen
but then met with kislyak in senate office in sept., does not remember what discussed. 4/
Laura Rozen
denies any such meetings at nomination hearing, and does not correct the record thru staff for six weeks as flynn fired….5/
Laura Rozen
are there US intercepts of what kislyak reported back to Russia was discussed incl. with Sessions ? 6/
They are crazy
https://mobile.twitter.com/Crw0430/status/837295004599136260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
EXCELLENT QUESTION:
Matthew Yglesias wants to know
Did Jeff Sessions meet routinely with the Russian ambassador in his senatorial capacity in years other than 2016?
Absolutely true:
From Kay over at BJ
Ya think?
https://mobile.twitter.com/BCAppelbaum/status/837135517661671424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Hmmph
https://mobile.twitter.com/becket/status/837165773705592832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Yep
https://mobile.twitter.com/AJentleson/status/837154084360708097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Uh huh
Uh huh
https://mobile.twitter.com/20committee/status/837163356901474305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/837144022812667905
https://twitter.com/oregonvt/status/837223453434458112
https://twitter.com/oregonvt/status/837223513580777473
https://twitter.com/oregonvt/status/837223909669888000
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/837162963534372864
BLACK ASS FOOL!
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/837220952807211009
Always wanting to be accepted by those who don’t want you.
Always! When will these folks learn?
https://twitter.com/baratunde/status/837172641861619712
https://twitter.com/baratunde/status/837169790343135233
https://twitter.com/baratunde/status/837170047424528385
https://twitter.com/baratunde/status/837172367721902080
https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost/status/837181311349555200
https://twitter.com/JacksonLeeTX18/status/837181444149690368
https://twitter.com/funder/status/837181869665959936
https://twitter.com/funder/status/826140852862980096
https://twitter.com/ambrose03/status/837184780634566658
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/837162963534372864
Whew lawd! These are some dirty ass liars.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/837178925755346944
https://twitter.com/BresPolitico/status/837142284848218113
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/837130701153632256
https://twitter.com/thecherness/status/837161329727270913
Did the entire administration go to bed with Russia? I think the WH need a total clean out.
There’s one good thing that Trump have said, twice I think. “I’m not the leader of the world”. I don’t know if he’s telling him self but the world thanks. From the depth of our hearts.
Best regards from Sweden :)
https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/837142983464136705
Jeff Sessions making plans for black people but the Scripture says..
Proverbs 26:27 If you set a trap for others, you will get caught in it yourself.
https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/837128368424382464
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/837154212026937344
After 8 yrs of being mistreated, obstructed @Potus44 looking out for America until the end. He preserved intelligence. #TRUEPATRIOT
This site is trying to keep on top and link all the threads of Trump/Putin from various sources
https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/837163201859055616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/837158731972505600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/837143301157433344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/837166323331379200
https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/837142268905652226
https://twitter.com/JoshSchwerin/status/837164424880353280
uh huh
Uh huh
Silverman- BJ’s resident Intel guy, responded to Kay:
Coretta Scott King warned about #JeffSessions in 1986 and from the GRAVE tried to warn America again. Y’all better listen!
Hey Donald, a tip: Cover-ups don’t get easier as they proceed. Russia tie leaks drown your joint session speech in less than 24 hrs.— John Dean (@JohnWDean) March 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/837145976334925824
Media Alert:
MSNBC Special about Trump and Russia begins in 5 minutes- the replay.
https://twitter.com/thinkprogress/status/837151748292771842
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/837152437416886272
George W. Bush’s ethics lawyer calls Sessions’s talks with Russia: “Good way to go to jail” https://t.co/2G9b3BJAEN pic.twitter.com/7ZEGRtfngK— The Hill (@thehill) March 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/NancyPelosi/status/837152985620807680
Good Idea:
from BJ
And the larger problem as laid out by the NY Times – other countries’ Intel Communities have actionable intelligence on the connections between the President’s campaign and the Russians.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/obama-trump-russia-election-hacking.html?_r=0
Michael WeissVerified account
@ michaeldweiss
Evan Perez just said it on CNN, so I suppose I can here: Kislyak wasn’t just ambassador, he was Russia’s “top spy recruiter” in D.C.: SVR.
HE LIED UNDER OATH
https://twitter.com/CAPAction/status/837128474540322816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
thank you for this