First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation

Will the Aryan Nation make Sessions "blood in" to get their protection in federal prison?
 
This Carter Page thing seems really minor to me. It doesn't seem that Page "was in contact with the Russians", or that he ever told Sessions he was going to meet with any important Russians, he just gave a speech in Moscow. Seems more likely that Sessions forgot about it than that he was trying to evade questioning from Congress. Far be it from me to carry water for Jeff Sessions but it seems like a ticky-tack thing to start talking about sacking him - unless Page had a lot more incriminating tings to say in his private hearing.
 
Deacon923 said:
This Carter Page thing seems really minor to me. It doesn't seem that Page "was in contact with the Russians", or that he ever told Sessions he was going to meet with any important Russians, he just gave a speech in Moscow. Seems more likely that Sessions forgot about it than that he was trying to evade questioning from Congress. Far be it from me to carry water for Jeff Sessions but it seems like a ticky-tack thing to start talking about sacking him - unless Page had a lot more incriminating tings to say in his private hearing.
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If it was the only one, I'd agree with you, but there are multiple events and the wording of Sessions' statements.
 
Junebug said:
Yeah, I mean, Sessions just seems really, really dumb. Maybe I'm underestimating him, but I just don't think he knowingly lied to Congress. I think he knows he's dumb enough not to be able to pull it off.
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He is from Alabama, so your theory is highly probable. Just look at his likely successor.
 
Junebug said:
Yeah, I mean, Sessions just seems really, really dumb. Maybe I'm underestimating him, but I just don't think he knowingly lied to Congress. I think he knows he's dumb enough not to be able to pull it off.
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Or he is dumb and arrogant enough to think he is above the law.

I also think Sessions is the most likely and will probably be the most willing to turn on Trump if he has to do so to stay out of a long prison stretch.
 
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Or he knew about all of the Russian connections and lied to Congress any way...


Trump campaign adviser: Sessions opposed Russia meeting

A former Trump campaign adviser said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions advised campaign officials not to discuss one adviser's proposed meeting with Moscow, according to a new report.

"He said no one should talk about it," said J.D. Gordon, a former campaign adviser who was at the meeting, and said that Sessions did not want the idea associated with the campaign.

Sessions made the remark at a meeting between Trump and his campaign's foreign policy team in March 2016, The New York Times reported.

Foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to federal officials about his Russian contacts, suggested during the meeting that he had "connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President Putin,” the court records say.

Sessions firmly opposed the idea, Gordon said, according to the Times, "And he said that no one should talk about it because it might leak."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...sessions-opposed-possible-russia-meeting-said
 
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Junebug said:
Yeah, I mean, Sessions just seems really, really dumb. Maybe I'm underestimating him, but I just don't think he knowingly lied to Congress. I think he knows he's dumb enough not to be able to pull it off.
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i don't buy this. his meetings with the Senate have been contentious about his lack of remembering meetings, what happened in the meetings and who was there. i think he is playing dumb and just refusing to answer questions by saying "i don't recall" or "i don't take notes in meetings" or some other BS.
 
warak said:
i don't buy this. his meetings with the Senate have been contentious about his lack of remembering meetings, what happened in the meetings and who was there. i think he is playing dumb and just refusing to answer questions by saying "i don't recall" or "i don't take notes in meetings" or some other BS.
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I agree with this. Sessions has a pretty distinguished career in military, law (US attorney and AL AG) and politics (20 years in the senate). He knows what he's doing.
 
Yeah, a friend of mine has had to work with Sessions a number of times in both closed and open sessions. He is definitely not dumb. He is arrogant as hell though, and his public persona is in large part an act.
 
I think Sessions thinks that he is bending the rules for the good of the country; that he is saving us all from Liberal damnation and multiculturalism, and that justifies a few lies here and there and getting money from the Russians. I mean really, what difference does it make if we take a few illegal things of value from the Russians, if, in the end, it helps us get the right judges on the SCOTUS so we can save millions of fetuses...That's my theory on Sessions.
 
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That's a good theory about the GOP in general.
 
birdman said:
I think Sessions thinks that he is bending the rules for the good of the country; that he is saving us all from Liberal damnation and multiculturalism, and that justifies a few lies here and there and getting money from the Russians. I mean really, what difference does it make if we take a few illegal things of value from the Russians, if, in the end, it helps us get the right judges on the SCOTUS so we can save millions of fetuses...That's my theory on Sessions.
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I think he's just an evil old racist.
 
birdman said:
I think Sessions thinks that he is bending the rules for the good of the country; that he is saving us all from Liberal damnation and multiculturalism, and that justifies a few lies here and there and getting money from the Russians. I mean really, what difference does it make if we take a few illegal things of value from the Russians, if, in the end, it helps us get the right judges on the SCOTUS so we can save millions of fetuses...That's my theory on Sessions.
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I can confirm this is the belief held by many Trump supporters. Have had several conversations with people I am very close to who hold this opinion. One caveat: I would substitute Hillary for multiculturalism.
 
 
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