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POTUS SLAMS SESSIONS AGAIN: He Endorsed Me Because of Big Crowds, Not Loyalty
Gateway Pundit ^ | 07/25/2017 | Joshua CaplanĀ 

Posted on 07/25/2017 1:38:22 PM PDT by Rusty0604

In a brief interview with the Wall Street Journal, President Trump ripped into Attorney General Sessions once again. This time, the President cut even deeper, suggesting Sessions endorsed him because of Trump’s success as a candidate, not out of loyalty.

President Donald Trump  expressed his disappointment in Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday and questioned the importance of Mr. Sessions’s early endorsement of Mr. Trump’s candidacy, but the president declined to say whether he planned to fire him.

“It’s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “I’m very disappointed in Jeff Sessions.”

While the President is still mum on his plans concerning Sessions, Scaramucci told NBC News a decision on the AG’s future will be made ‘shortly.’

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: agsessions; doj; sessions; trump; trumpcabinet; trumpdoj; trumpsessions
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To: Alberta's Child

It sounds like Trump trusted Sessions’ judgment—the guy was to be Sessions’ Deputy, after all—and got burned.

You don’t have to use hyperbole, btw. Trump could have known quite a bit about Rosenstein. But would he have chosen him if Sessions hadn’t been pushing for him?

Maybe not.


481 posted on 07/26/2017 8:57:33 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Cboldt

Opinion discarded.

Into the trash it goes.


482 posted on 07/26/2017 9:00:26 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter
-- Into the trash it goes. --

Quelle surprize!

483 posted on 07/26/2017 9:02:28 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Fantasywriter
It sounds like Trump trusted Sessions’ judgment -- the guy was to be Sessions’ Deputy, after all -- and got burned.

Any responsible adult in that situation would realize that "the buck stops here" -- that is, with the person who had the ultimate responsibility to make the decision, regardless of who else was involved in the process.

I'm sure Donald Trump would have gone batsh!t crazy -- and rightly so -- if one of Trump Jr.'s real estate projects was running into trouble and the kid blamed all the problems on a deputy project manager.

That's the only way any responsible leader in an organization works. Otherwise, you end up in a situation where the chief executive rants for days about how ineffective one of his senior managers is, while everyone in the organization wonders why the lunatic doesn't just fire the guy.

Oh, wait a minute ...

LOL.

484 posted on 07/26/2017 9:08:25 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Cboldt

My understanding was that you put me on your ignore list. Between ourselves, that suited me to perfection. I am a live and let live type; if you’ll ignore me, I’ll be delighted to return the favor.

However, subsequently to what I understood was the Ignore List addition, you posted this to me:

‘As a political matter, Trump has to justify the decision to the public. Whther he does that before or after depends on the situation. Brownie got fired after a public “good job, Brownie” but a public PR nightmare re: Katrina.

Trump is providing the Katrina for Sessions.’

I was surprised to be addressed, when I thought you’d renounced me. However, I thought if I ignored it that would be the end of it.

Unfortunately, the mere fact of being ignoref evidently riled your thin skin afresh, so you unloaded your ‘Let’s make it personal,’ volley above.

Look, I want no part of this. Can’t you just knock it off? I give you my word to never reply to any of your posts. I’d profoundly appreciate the same in return.


485 posted on 07/26/2017 9:15:26 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

I’ll address you when I feel like it. There are so many twits on FR, sometimes I lose track and address one of you. Snowflake.


486 posted on 07/26/2017 9:17:38 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Alberta's Child

I can see Trump’s POV. If Sessions presented Rosenstein as the guy he really, really wanted as his Deputy, Trump may have felt that Sessions deserved that pick. Then Sessions and Rosenstein did a Texas two-step, and Trump’s administration was thrown into a sh!t show of monumental proportions.

You may see Trump’s venting as wrong. I see no issue with dealing openly and honestly with issue. It’s just two different takes on the same situation.


487 posted on 07/26/2017 9:21:48 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

I see no issue = I see no problem


488 posted on 07/26/2017 9:23:31 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter
-- the mere fact of being ignoref evidently riled your thin skin afresh, so you unloaded your `Let's make it personal,' volley above. --

Just for the record, that's you making another false accusation, but hey, that's who you are.

My "let's make it personal" volley was not because you ignored my other post, whatever it was wasn't necessarily directed to you, it was just an observation that Trump was making Sessions ugly and that facilitates or justifies firing him. I didn't expect a reply to that, and didn't even notice none came.

My "let's make it personal" volley was fairly descriptive of the character flaw I see in you, when you flat out accuse Sessions of being a liar and screwing Trump from start to finish.

Sessions put Trump in the worst possible position by lying about his Russian contacts. He screwed Trump from start to finish. If he wanted the job bad enough to lie for it, he wanted it too much and for the wrong reasons.

You deserve to be called out for that. You ought to be shunned.

489 posted on 07/26/2017 9:26:13 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Fantasywriter
I don't see Trump's venting as wrong at all.

I see it as nothing more than a "staged WWE event."

490 posted on 07/26/2017 9:29:03 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Alberta's Child

In this case the venting has the look and feel of being real. I realize, however, that you are in good company in taking the, ‘This is Trump playing the MSM/Dems once again,’ POV. Our local political guru, with ties to Bannon, takes your view. My personal favorite commentator, Sundance, takes my view. It should become clear before too long which is right.


491 posted on 07/26/2017 9:37:40 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

The problem you face is that if the venting has the look and feel of being real, it also has the look and feel of something I’d expect to see from a 12 year-old girl, or an adult who is an immature, stunted misfit by any objective measure.


492 posted on 07/26/2017 10:00:24 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Alberta's Child

Your take on Trump’s tweets do have support on this site. I’ve seen others say the same thing. It makes me appreciate the time I spend on The_Donald. There are 7+ million Trump supporters over there. They eat up Trump’s tweets like a bear eating honey. They make actual memes depicting how hard it is to wait for the newest tweet.

As you might expect, Trump is getting nothing but support for his Sessions comments on The_Donald. No one over there (that I’ve encountered) thinks they’re a ruse. Nor do they see them as immature. They see it as a last chance for Sessions to get in gear.

I take in the attitudes and opinions at The_Donald, those expressed here, and my own, and contemplate the whole. My take at this point is that we’ll know the truth when it plays out. If Trump gains, the strategy will have been a winner. Time will tell.


493 posted on 07/26/2017 10:16:15 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

do = does

(In the, ‘What was I thinking,’ category.)


494 posted on 07/26/2017 10:24:44 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: miss marmelstein

WTF are you smoking?


495 posted on 07/26/2017 11:13:35 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Fantasywriter

What RS contacts are you talking about? The reception line? Really? I’ve stood in reception lines at diplomatic events and I can’t remember who I shook hands with. He didn’t lie about anything.


496 posted on 07/26/2017 11:15:43 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Salvavida

You really have a nasty mouth.


497 posted on 07/26/2017 11:31:40 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Salvavida

First, I did get the name wrong. Someone up thread said they thought it was Lavrov, and rather than look it up I copied. So much for that.

The name is Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Sessions had two conversations with him. One was at an RNC-related event. If that had been the only contact, I could believe that Sessions ‘just forgot.’

The second meeting with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was in Sessions’ office. The, ‘I just forgot,’ excuse won’t work here. Senators have journals, secretaies, schedules and aides. There is no way to block out a tete-a-tete with the Russian ambassador in a Senator’s private office. This fact was known to Sessions.

Yet subsequently Sessions admitted he’d been part of Trump’s campaign, and then catagorically denied any and all communications with the Russians.

That was not an honest mistake. That was a lie—and it cost Trump dearly.


498 posted on 07/26/2017 11:33:12 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: miss marmelstein

You call me a NeverTrumper based off of nothing, and you don’t expect return fire? STFU.


499 posted on 07/26/2017 11:37:57 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Fantasywriter
Exactly. All official business, which would not have been on his radar. You don't ask a foreign service officer or anyone else is federal government if they have had contact with Russians. All of US policy (which I have at times contributed to) is based on undisclosed, unofficial business. Do you not get that? There is no one in federal government that would report these instances. WHY? Because it is their fcking job to engage and have audiences with foreigners. I've done it for 15+ years in both State and DoD, and those types of contact are not part of the criteria to report.

Geeeeezz.

500 posted on 07/26/2017 11:44:00 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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