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Attorney General Jeff Sessions Submitted His Resignation To Trump

SLC said:
We have proof that a FISA warrant was filed 4 times to spy on Carter Page . When a phone conversation is recorded and transcribed the other people in the conversation are not identified by name. The Obama team routinely unmasked the people Page was talking too in the campaign even though the government had no right to know their names. The FISA warrant request were predicated on the bogus Trump Russian dossier as the "evidence" of a potential crime. The FBI is require to verify the evidence they use to apply for a FISA warrant. The Dossier was never verified. The FBI knew the dossier was bogus by the time some of the FISA warrants were requested. Carter Page has never been accused of or indicted for even a single crime. Exculpatory evidence was withheld from the FISA judge. Ohr the 4th in command at the DOJ wife worked for Fussion GPS she helped develop the fake dossier. Christopher Steele the Ex MI6 agent that prepared the fake dossier even admitted under oath it was unverified was fired by the FBI. But Steele funneled information to Nellie Ohr and her husband funneled that information to Andrew Wiesman on the Mueller team. There is more. If you view yourself as a libertarian you should be sickened by the corruption in the DOJ and the FBI. Rod Rosenstein has fought for months to avoid congressional oversight. He has tried to avoid the release of the FISA applications on Carter Page. That much we now know for a fact.

This we strongly suspect.

Trump was going to declassify about 20 pages of documents that would shed a lot of light on the corruption. When he said it two foreign governments objected. Why? Probably the two governments are members of the "five eyes" most likely Australia and the UK. They were likely spying on the Trump campaign and passing that information back to our intelligence agencies. Remember Papadopoulos was contacted by the Australian ambassador to the UK and Page was contacted by MI6 and CIA informant Stefan Halper. Trump is going to release the information in question soon.
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Who is "we"?
 
Re: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns from Trump White House

HumblePi said:
He made it very clear in his resignation letter that this was NOT his doing. He made it clear that Trump ASKED him to leave.
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He got talked into a recusal he didnt need to do, and as a result was a crippled AG. He should have informed the Administration, and stepped before taking office.
 
Rising Sun said:
Who is "we"?
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The general public well those that don't watch CNN, MSNBC, NBC exclusively. I suspect the document soon to be declassified by trump will answer a lot of question. Wait a couple of weeks and see. The IG is looking at them even as we speak.
 
SLC said:
The general public well those that don't watch CNN, MSNBC, NBC exclusively. I suspect the document soon to be declassified by trump will answer a lot of question. Wait a couple of weeks and see. The IG is looking at them even as we speak.
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....annnnd you were appointed speaker for the "general public" by whom? Trump himself personally? A phone call? Or did you just receive the radio signals through your aluminum transceiver helmet?
 
Rising Sun said:
....annnnd you were appointed speaker for the "general public" by whom? Trump himself personally? A phone call? Or did you just receive the radio signals through your aluminum transceiver helmet?
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OK I'll change the definition of "We" to those that don't have their heads in the sand or in their ass if you like.
 
SLC said:
OK I'll change the definition of "We" to those that don't have their heads in the sand or in their ass if you like.
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It'd be more appropriate to take out the "don't" and just go from there.
 
Athanasius68 said:
Mueller has produced nothing with respect to collusion. His scalps he has obtained has nothing to do with his mandate.
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You might want to check our facts.

The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the investigation confinned by then-FBI Director James 8. Corney in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 20, 2017, including:

(i) any links and/or coordination bet ween the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and
(ii) any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; and
(iii) any other matters within the scope of 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a).

(c) If the Special Counsel believes it is necessary and appropriate, the Special Counsel is authorized to prosecute federal crimes arising from the investigation of these matters.
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https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/967231/download
 
Re: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns from Trump White House

Mach said:
Holy ****, stop with the BUT HER EMAILS already.

Why has a Republican president, Republican Senate, and Republican House, been unable to investigate and indict Hillary after all this time? They have all the power, for 2 years.

You know why, because it was a political hit job they were going after the emails for, and no one was going to be indicted for that by the ****ing department of justice. Hillary was stupid to set up a personal server, but she did the right thing in cutting off the stupid-as-**** Republicans that were going after all her private emails that they would happily leak to damage her further.

That's why Republicans shouldn't have control....they have convinced their deplorable base of all sorts of fictions, and when they do get in power...none of those fictions get seriously addressed do they? There's no wall, Muslim ban fizzled, no repeal and replace of Obama care, no comprehensive immigration reform....and you don't' care, your'e just really stuck on the ****ing emails, that Republicans have told you by their inaction for 2 years, was a complete and total partisan game and was NEVER actually important.
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The improper handling of classified information is unimportant and a game? WOW! That is not what I was told when I got my clearance. I was told that mishandling classified information was one of the worst things a person could do and a very serious crime.

We even have strict protocol about the handling of peoples information at plumbing supply. You will be fired for infractions and can face charges. These are not classified government documents. Just credit information about our customers.
 
SLC said:
NEW FLASH There was no collusion. :lol:
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That would be fake news flash as you know no more than anyone else. Collusion will have to be proven, true. Obstruction of Justice will be a slam dunk, and an Article of Impeachment. As Trumps OWN lawyer said in regards to advice on Trump speaking to Mueller under oath, the man is f*****g liar.
 
yankintx said:
That would be fake news flash as you know no more than anyone else. Collusion will have to be proven, true.
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There is ZERO evidence that Trump colluded with anyone. After over 18 months ZERO evidence.


Obstruction of Justice will be a slam dunk, and an Article of Impeachment.
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Trump is within his right to fire Comey and Session that is not obstruction of justice. Alan Dershowitz a Liberal Harvard Law professor says Trump can't be prosecuted for obstruction for firing someone in the educative branch.


As Trumps OWN lawyer said in regards to advice on Trump speaking to Mueller under oath, the man is f*****g liar.
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Cohen says Trump is a liar.....That's rich....coming from Cohen.:lamo Trump has not and will not speak under oath to Mueller. Trump will answer interrogatories on specific issues but they will be finely combed by his team of lawyers.
 
SLC said:
There is ZERO evidence that Trump colluded with anyone. After over 18 months ZERO evidence.


Trump is within his right to fire Comey and Session that is not obstruction of justice. Alan Dershowitz a Liberal Harvard Law professor says Trump can't be prosecuted for obstruction for firing someone in the educative branch.


Cohen says Trump is a liar.....That's rich....coming from Cohen.:lamo Trump has not and will not speak under oath to Mueller. Trump will answer interrogatories on specific issues but they will be finely combed by his team of lawyers.
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You dont have access to Muellers work, again your guessing.

That was Dowd who claimed Trump was a liar, not Cohen

please keep up and stop assuming
 
SLC said:
There is ZERO evidence that Trump colluded with anyone. After over 18 months ZERO evidence.


Trump is within his right to fire Comey and Session that is not obstruction of justice. Alan Dershowitz a Liberal Harvard Law professor says Trump can't be prosecuted for obstruction for firing someone in the educative branch.


Cohen says Trump is a liar.....That's rich....coming from Cohen.:lamo Trump has not and will not speak under oath to Mueller. Trump will answer interrogatories on specific issues but they will be finely combed by his team of lawyers.
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In regards to Obstruction of Justice and Trump, the case is a good one.

You may want to read this document from the Brookings Institute, a well respected non partisan think tank made of highly educated professionals. This includes Constitutional lawyers and scholors. Sure Trump can fire anyone he likes in the Executive Branch, and if you want to cling to that its your pergotive.

In a short exert from the report:

"To take only a few examples, it has since been reported that President Trump: attempted to block Attorney General Sessions’ recusing himself from the Russia investigation despite the AG’s clear legal duty to do so; asked Sessions to reverse his recusal decision; demanded and obtained the resignation of Sessions for his failure to contain the Russia investigation (before ultimately rejecting it); twice ordered the firing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller; dictated a false account for a key witness, his son Donald Trump Jr., of the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting between campaign and Russian representatives; publicly attacked Special Counsel Mueller and key witnesses to the obstruction case; and has repeatedly disputed the underlying Russian attack and Vladimir Putin’s role in it despite possessing evidence to the contrary. We also know that White House Counsel Don McGahn and his lawyer at one point were reportedly so concerned that the president was going to blame McGahn that he provided extraordinary cooperation with the special counsel, including sitting for 30 hours of interviews in an apparent effort to exonerate himself."

I will provide a link to the entire report for your reading pleasure. Quite often its not the crime which gets one in legel jeapordy, but the cover-up. I will also add this report was compiled before Whittaker replaced Sessions, another log on the fire.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.br...e-the-case-of-donald-j-trump-2nd-edition/amp/
 
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yankintx said:
That would be fake news flash as you know no more than anyone else. Collusion will have to be proven, true. Obstruction of Justice will be a slam dunk, and an Article of Impeachment. As Trumps OWN lawyer said in regards to advice on Trump speaking to Mueller under oath, the man is f*****g liar.
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While there is only circumstantial evidence of Trump senior guilty of collusion, there is far more evidence of Trump, Jr. guilty of collusion. We can also assume that Jr wouldn't do anything without the permission of his father.

Senate Transcripts Suggest Trump, Jr., Was Willing to Collude with Russians
The documents support Trump, Jr.,’s claim that the Russians didn’t actually deliver any actionable dirt on Clinton or her campaign. Confirming previously published accounts, the participants said Veselnitskaya spent much of her time talking about the purported evils of the Magnitsky Act, a 2012 piece of legislation that banned certain Russian individuals from entering the United States or using the U.S. banking system, and Bill Browder, a U.S.-born hedge-fund manager who campaigned for the bill’s passage.

According to the testimony, she also mentioned an alleged Russian tax-evasion scheme involving the Ziff brothers, who had donated to the Clinton Foundation but also to Republican causes. Goldstone told the Committee that on his way out of the meeting he apologized to Trump, Jr., saying, “I’m really embarrassed by this meeting. I don’t know what that was about.”

So much for the Trump defense. But the transcripts, including Trump, Jr.,’s own testimony, which he gave on September 7th of last year, also confirm that the Trump camp was eager to hear out its Russian visitors and find out what damaging information they had to offer. To put it another way, the documents strongly suggest that the Trumps—or at least Trump, Jr.—were almost certainly willing to collude with the Russians if they really had the goods on Clinton.
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President Donald Trump defended his eldest son in a tweet Sunday morning, insisting that the meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with a Russian attorney in June 2016 at Trump Tower to get "dirt" on Hillary Clinton was "totally legal."
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Legal experts have pointed to a possible violation of federal election laws, which ban taking anything of value – which could include information on a political opponent – from a foreign government trying to influence a U.S. election. The Russian attorney at that meeting, Natalia Veselnitskaya, has close ties to the Kremlin.
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Re: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns from Trump White House

chuckiechan said:
He got talked into a recusal he didnt need to do, and as a result was a crippled AG. He should have informed the Administration, and stepped before taking office.
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Jeff Sessions desperately wanted the job of Attorney General, at one time stating that it had been his 'life's dream' to be the Attorney General. This was Sessions' ultimate goal and the reason he was was a major campaign advisor in Trump's 2016 campaign. Trump stated in a Fox interview that the only reason he nominated Sessions was because Sessions was an original supporter during his presidential campaign. Sessions is no dummy, he's an old hand at this Washington stuff, he wanted that A.G. job and would do anything to get it and anything to keep it.

During his Senate confirmation hearings he denied he had any discussions with representatives of the Russian government. News reports proved that Sessions had spoken twice with Russia's ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Sessions released a statement on March 1, 2017, saying "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." Upon the revelation that Sessions had met several times with the Russian ambassador, Lindsey Graham called for Sessions to recuse himself from any investigations into the connections between Russia and the Trump campaign. Several Democratic members of Congress called on Sessions to resign his post as United States Attorney General. Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Elijah Cummings and Senator Al Franken accused Sessions of having lied under oath at his confirmation hearing, which he had.

As you can see, Jeff Sessions was asked to recuse himself by a Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham. But his choice was this, either recuse from the Russia investigation and remain as Attorney General, or face charges of lying to the Senate during confirmation and have his dream of being U.S. Attorney General snatched away from him. At that point Jeff Sessions put what was the most important thing to him first, and that was Jefferson Sessions, not Donald Trump.
 
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PIPEWRENCH said:
The improper handling of classified information is unimportant and a game? WOW! That is not what I was told when I got my clearance. I was told that mishandling classified information was one of the worst things a person could do and a very serious crime. We even have strict protocol about the handling of peoples information at plumbing supply. You will be fired for infractions and can face charges. These are not classified government documents. Just credit information about our customers.
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Again, for the third time. Why if it's so incredible nationally important, did Republicans in control of 2 (3) branches of government, not act on it?

Possibilities:
1. Republican leadership and right wing media lied to you that it was a huge deal, and really it's not something anyone would be indicted over criminally. Taking it down and reprimanding is what would be done in any case.
2. See, I can't even imagine stupid alternatives to that, I just lack the stupid-gene and stupid-juice coming out of Fox news to even understand the stupid.

Why have Republicans in power done nothing if it's so important, and so important still? See #1.
 
Re: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns from Trump White House

SLC said:
The facts remain that classified e mails on a private server is illegal a felony. Now its come out her email were being diverted to another government. Destroying subpoenaed material is a felony. The reason she wasn't prosecuted is the FBI director way overstepped his authority and exonerated her. And Lynch did not do her job. I just want a second prosecutor to look into Hillary and her cohorts and the DOJ and FBI corruption. I suspect Whitaker or his replacement likely Graham or Ratliff will do just that.
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DOJ and FBI corruption is what prevented President, House, and Senate, from getting to the bottom of this so serious and so terrible issue as to set up an improper email server?!?

Admit it. Republicans lied to you, you believed it, and you're carrying the torch STILL, because you're in denial.
 
HumblePi said:
Jeff Sessions desperately wanted the job of Attorney General, at one time stating that it had been his 'life's dream' to be the Attorney General. This was Sessions' ultimate goal and the reason he was was a major campaign advisor in Trump's 2016 campaign. Trump stated in a Fox interview that the only reason he nominated Sessions was because Sessions was an original supporter during his presidential campaign. Sessions is no dummy, he's an old hand at this Washington stuff, he wanted that A.G. job and would do anything to get it and anything to keep it.

During his Senate confirmation hearings he denied he had any discussions with representatives of the Russian government. News reports proved that Sessions had spoken twice with Russia's ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Sessions released a statement on March 1, 2017, saying "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." Upon the revelation that Sessions had met several times with the Russian ambassador, Lindsey Graham called for Sessions to recuse himself from any investigations into the connections between Russia and the Trump campaign. Several Democratic members of Congress called on Sessions to resign his post as United States Attorney General. Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Elijah Cummings and Senator Al Franken accused Sessions of having lied under oath at his confirmation hearing, which he had.

As you can see, Jeff Sessions was asked to recuse himself by a Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham. But his choice was this, either recuse from the Russia investigation and remain as Attorney General, or face charges of lying to the Senate during confirmation and have his dream of being U.S. Attorney General snatched away from him. At that point Jeff Sessions put what was the most important thing to him first, and that was Jefferson Sessions, not Donald Trump.
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Franken asked Sessions about contact with Russian diplomats in context of his role as chairman, not in context as his role in Trump campaign.
Or at least this is how Sessions understood the question. Franken apparently understood his question a different way. The transcript suggests Sessions response was a valid interpretation to the question though.
 
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