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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis looks like perjury to me:
Link to tweet
On edit: The man is a double traitor---Confederate sympathizer and now with the Russians. What kind of deal did he make with them?
still_one
(92,268 posts)GP6971
(31,174 posts)They're repukes and can do no wrong.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)But I suspect their stance on lying under oath has softened quite a bit lately.
radical noodle
(8,003 posts)no big deal. It would only matter if Hillary did it.
Docreed2003
(16,866 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)liberal N proud
(60,338 posts)Now the lies flow like a river without a concern being raised.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)Orrex
(63,216 posts)Oh, wait. He's a Republican? Never mind.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)and may I add, Sessions LOOKS like a klansman
wishstar
(5,270 posts)Sessions is up to his neck in Russian ties involving his aides and close connections with Michael Flynn, Stephen Miller (who went from working for Sessions to working for Trump) and Carter Page plus other people with Russian ties that Sessions and his staffers hooked up with Trump campaign.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)I don't believe I've read the article that references it yet.
Thanks!
mobeau69
(11,147 posts)said they had had no contact. He said there were a few that didn't reply. This was in a telephone interview with Don Lemon on CNN about an hour ago.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)Members of the committee have not been beating a path to Kislyaks door, a senior Senate Armed Services Committee staffer said, citing tensions in relations with Moscow. Besides Sessions, the staffer added, There havent been a ton of members who are looking to meet with Kislyak for their committee duties.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-spoke-twice-with-russian-ambassador-during-trumps-presidential-campaign-justice-officials-say/2017/03/01/77205eda-feac-11e6-99b4-9e613afeb09f_story.html?utm_term=.19ce726a193e
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)but what I've been hearing all day on MSNBC has been push back about ANY Trump involvement. The more that comes out the more denial I hear - and from unexpected people at that. Sigh.
Volaris
(10,272 posts)And i would bet it began the day after Obama rightly destroyed Trump at the correspondents dinner. Thinskinned piece of shit can't take a well-deserved joke, so he's gonna go ahead and fuck over the whole damned country, and he's gonna call in every favor and chip he has out there, cut every dirty deal and corner he can with whoever he needs to to do it. Treason? Who cares. Because the Black Man laughed at me, that's why.
And you know what? The idiots who voted for him don't give 2 fucks, either, because they think the Black Man was laughing at THEM, too. Because they're just like Trump.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)The Dworkin Report starts with a 1987 trip Trump made to Russia:
President-elect Trump on his travels to Moscow
According to a 1987 Interest Rate Observer article, President-elect Trump says he likes the
people in Russia, and the people like him.
Excerpt:
He [President-elect Trump] has flown to Moscow. I like the people, and the people like me, he says, sounding a little proprietary about the people.
<SNIP>
Exhibit 2 (May 19
, 1997)
President-elect Trump commissioned a $40 million statue by a Russian artist
The statue was created by Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli, cost $40 million, and was a solid bronze likeness of Christopher Columbus. President-elect Trump had originally planned to place the statue in Manhattan, but it ended up in Puerto Rico. The statue would have been 6 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty.
https://www.democraticcoalition.org/thedworkinreport (click on the link on this page to get to the PDF of the report.)
sinkingfeeling
(51,464 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is sworn in before testifying during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his confirmation hearing last month to be attorney general. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call,Inc.
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/08/514183085/senate-confirms-jeff-sessions-as-attorney-general
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Can't wait for the WH purge.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)But now that he's lied to the Senate Confirmation committee, I think he should resign. Whatever his meetings were about, he should be asked to resign for lying.
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)JudyM
(29,251 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,809 posts)iluvtennis
(19,864 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)"Sessions responded with one word: No."
Sessions should have known these discussions were discoverable, right? Why would he lie?
Leith
(7,813 posts)nm
JudyM
(29,251 posts)elias7
(4,012 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts).....keep the pressure on.
triron
(22,007 posts)Cover up!!!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)True Dough
(17,312 posts)Except that "illegal immigrants" are out there committing rampant crime.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)Who doesn't remember meeting ambassadors and other high ranking people? I mean really. Even if you are a senator and wannabee tRump insider, meeting an ambassador ought to register as a pretty big deal.
Selective memory??
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Seriously. Unless you often hangout with Russians the accent alone would be impossible to forget. (Assuming, of course, he has an accent. )
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)The very best Sessions can look in this matter is forgetful and dumb. How far removed in time were these two meetings from the 'hacking' story hitting the mainstream news?
Can't remember, my ass.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)shouldn't be doing important stuff............
They should be resting
in jail.
Jarqui
(10,128 posts)to avoid a Special Independent Counsel to head up an investigation.
"I have nothing to hide" Nixon
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19730324&id=8FwcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=81MEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4033,3229683
We had to run naked in the streets protesting to get them to deal with Tricky Dick ...
tblue37
(65,442 posts)"I did not have communications with the Russians."
tblue37
(65,442 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)Response to Kingofalldems (Original post)
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