Sessions under renewed scrutiny on Capitol Hill
Source: C.N.N.
Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions is once again under scrutiny on Capitol Hill regarding his candor about Russia and the Trump campaign amid revelations that he rejected a suggestion to convene a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump last year.
According to court filings unsealed this week, Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos suggested at a March 2016 meeting that he could use his connections to set up a meeting between Putin and Trump with the then-GOP candidate's national security team. An Instagram picture on Trump's account shows Sessions attended the meeting at which Papadopoulos made the suggestion.
After Trump declined to rule out the idea, Sessions weighed in and rejected the proposed meeting, according to a person who attended.
But Sessions, who was a top surrogate for Trump during the campaign, did not disclose these discussions despite a persistent set of questions from Democrats and some Republicans about Russia during multiple hearings on Capitol Hill. The new information is renewing attention to how forthcoming Sessions has been with Congress.
There is interest from Democrats on both the Senate intelligence and judiciary committees for Sessions to formally clarify his remarks made before both committees given what's now known about his interactions with Papadopoulos, a Senate aide told CNN. The source said the request for clarification could take several forms, such as having Sessions testify again or submitting a clarification in writing, but that has not yet been determined.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/jeff-sessions-congress-russia-trump-campaign/index.html
Ruh Roh!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)The snowflake snowball is picking up steam.
roll over faster than you can blink. He strikes me as a wimpy little elf.
wiggs
(7,814 posts)FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)Anyone who would take the job of AG would have to be willing to lose his license and JD.
Or else not have one, in which case he/she wouldn't be qualified.
orangecrush
(19,571 posts)orangecrush
(19,571 posts)And bring this guy back for the job....
His resignation frightens me more than his continued traitorous service. At least everyone sees his perfidy. A new AG fulfills the Trump dream of a crony overseeing Mueller.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and one is the head of the DOJ. Sessions' committed perjury and must resign (not in their thought) since t-rump's crew think their GAWD has a higher reason for them to fuck up the USA.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Keebler Elf,and now his little Perjured ass is grass. This will shake the Senate Foundation to it's core.
orangecrush
(19,571 posts)till 2018 to see them fall on their asses.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)And the Media is in Cricket Mode. Shades of Watergate.
orangecrush
(19,571 posts)Makes me feel like I'm 18 again!
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Take JBS III down, it will be Al. However, remember even Trump tried, for BS reasons no less, but the Senate stood boldly wih Sessions
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Another Klucker biting the dust.
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)Every last one of them.
orangecrush
(19,571 posts)Thanks!
orangecrush
(19,571 posts)the cockroaches are scurrying in the light!
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)orangecrush
(19,571 posts)instead of the beginning of winter!
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)orangecrush
(19,571 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Will the Committee Chairs Grassley and Burr allow hauling Jeffrey's wrinkled, little ass back in front of them?
Man, I hope so.
We DO know Feinstein is pissed.
orangecrush
(19,571 posts)louis-t
(23,295 posts)How convenient.
orangecrush
(19,571 posts)Dig the hole deeper.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Hey kids, can you say "traitor?"
orangecrush
(19,571 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)This is why Mueller dropped the Papa indictment now, to clean house at DoJ. Can't have an indicted Trump co-conspirator in charge of law enforcement any longer, shit is getting too real.
Papadopoulos plea deal has opened up Jeff Sessions to perjury charges
By Frank Vyan Walton -- Nov 01, 2017
orangecrush
(19,571 posts)That picture!
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)or maybe that stubborn little elf will stay
onetexan
(13,042 posts)"Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos suggested at a March 2016 meeting that he could use his connections to set up a meeting between Putin and Trump with the then-GOP candidate's national security team. An Instagram picture on Trump's account shows Sessions attended the meeting at which Papadopoulos made the suggestion. "
Wonder how this racist snake will slither himself out of this one
VaBchTgerLily
(231 posts)it is already known that he lied under oath- how many chances do these Trump admin people get? If this were a democrat they would have already been strung up