Posted on 09/10/2018 5:15:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
CNN is reporting that top congressional Democrats are planning to take an unexpectedly soft line on new and potentially very damning information that has emerged about Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Russia probe.
Why? Because Democrats understand full well that Sessions, of all people, could end up being pivotal to preventing President Trump from covering up the findings of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation.
It’s a complicated and interesting situation — and it’s unclear where it’s going to end up.
A few days ago, the news broke that in a recent court filing, former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos contradicted Sessions’s previous sworn testimony about how Sessions reacted when Papadopoulos proposed the idea of Trump meeting with Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Why is Papadopoulos more believable than Sessions and who cares.
Why is Papadopoulos more believable than Sessions and who cares.
Total bull.
Papadopoulos got 14 days. Not the serious crime Mueller represented. And apparently his cooperation was of no use.
You have no idea what Sessions knew when all this was going on. Prosecutors don't recuse themselves to cover their asses. They recuse themselves to avoid jeopardizing a criminal case.
Secondly, let's take this out of the realm of what has actually been going on and look at it as a hypothetical situation without these particular people involved ...
Let's say I am the President of the United States and I am facing a very challenging situation with exposure to many political pitfalls, and I know I am absolutely innocent of any charges that might be made against me in a legal or political setting. If you ask me what would be the best thing that could possibly happen to me early on in the process before the sh!t really hits the fan, you might be surprised at my response:
My Attorney General recuses himself from any involvement in the matter.
It sounds outlandish, but think about it:
1. The U.S. Attorney General post was created by Congress in 1789, and was one of the first cabinet-level positions established in the United States.
2. With the AG recused in a matter, the responsibility for overseeing that matter falls to the Deputy U.S. Attorney General.
3. The Deputy AG is a senior executive branch appointee who must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, but the position was never established by Congress. It was created through an internal DOJ order by the then-AG in 1950. It is entirely an internal Executive Branch function, and has no statutory oversight from Congress other than the Senate confirmation and Congress' impeachment authority. The President of the United States can issue an executive order at any time to change the role of the Deputy AG, change the rules for internal succession within the DOJ when a recusal or vacancy occurs, or even eliminate the Deputy AG post entirely.
Read that last sentence and ask yourself a question: Is it remotely possible that this whole "recusal" charade was orchestrated to have this whole matter investigated through an Executive Branch office that is under tighter control of the President than the Attorney General is?
It seems to have eluded old Greg that Dems are desperate to keep Sessions because he is helping cover up and prevent prosecution of numerous Democrats within the DoJ, FBI, CIA, and State Dept, and has shown no interest in reforming the broken DoJ, FBI, and FISA system; or prosecuting the Clintons for Uranium One and pay-to-play; or Hillary for her email/classified data crime spree; or Huma Abedin for conspiracy, lying and obstruction; or re-visiting the Weiner laptop in its entirety to procure evidence. Sessions apparently is in the Dems’ thrall, but a replacement AG would have a mandate to burn it all down, leaving the swamp a smoldering ruin.
Greg, why don’t you report on the biggest political scandal in US history. WaPo has lost all credibility by continuing to ignore it, hoping it will go away. IT WON’T.
Wikipedia: Journolist
Greg Sargent of The Washington Post, a list member, criticized (Tucker) Carlson for not posting JournoList threads in their entirety. He wrote that “publishing them would make it tougher to paint J-Listers as a secretive and omnipotent political cabal, rather than just a bunch of geeks and eggheads venting and arguing about politics”...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList
July 2010: WaPo: Greg Sargent: Tucker Carlson: We will not publish full J-List emails
At risk of getting drawn into this debate, I was a member of J-List for some time, but never when I was writing for The Post. I’d originally signed up as a member when I was at TPM, and remained one after The Washington Post Company hired me to write for WhoRunsGov. But I almost never participated — I was a lurker — and I removed myself from the list well before my blog was moved over to The Post proper, mainly because I was sick of being overwhelmed by emails.
The only thing I have to say about the J-List debate is this: The descriptions of it by Ezra, Matt and Jonathan Chait are 100 percent accurate, and anyone who says otherwise is daft. Period...
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/07/tucker_carlson_we_will_not_pub.html
Yes.
I have always found the contempt that the Left has for normal people to be astounding, and that so many of the people they despise buy into their crap.
Wow, Sessions really it’s a plant. This confirms it.. The Dems want him there.
Seriously.. He’s a criminal who has ample reasons to lie.
His wife makes him more believable.
Once this whole story gets told, if it ever does, I hope it turns out Papadopoulos and his bride are just two deep state up and comers who met and fell in love...call me a sentamentalist.
“It’s a complicated and interesting situation — and it’s unclear where it’s going to end up.”
When they all make sh!t up out of their imaginations, without even bothering to agree on their story, things do get “complicated”.
So what? That's not a crime! Plus Papadopoulos didn't implicate TRUMP in anything
“I’m still not counting out a Trump/Sessions rope-a-dope and taking the DNC down for the count.”
Me either. I don’t even think it’s a super clever 3D chess plan or anything - just common sense; Trump knows it’s far better politically if he can get his enemies to self-destruct.
A full-on prosecutorial attack by his AG and DOJ, and a string of firings to purge the deep state from his administration, would have been too easy for the Left to counter. That would have played right into the narrative they have been constructing from the beginning.
The Obama FBI and DOJ, the DNC and its propaganda ministry, the MSM, have conspired from the beginning to use fake intelligence, illegal spying and frame ups, blackmail and bribery, and leaks to its allies in the press, to launch a massive misinformation campaign to frame Donald Trump, first as an unfit candidate, then as an illegitimate POTUS.
The frame-up has centered around two narratives that the DNC believed would be damaging to Trump’s public image: 1) that he conspired with Russians to “steal” the election by hacking into the DNC, and 2) that he is a ruthless Nixon-like authoritarian, bent on obstructing any investigation into his wrongdoings by any means necessary, including mass firings and prosecutotial purges of his political enemies.
It seems clear enough after a year and a half of incredible restraint on Trump’s part, that he is determined NOT to give them anything that would feed those narratives, but instead to present himself to the public as the most transparent, open book POTUS ever to occupy the White House.
Since firing Comey, Trump has remained painstakingly at arms length - this is obviously a strategic decision, and one that is working beautifully.
Trump is increasingly seen by the public as the innocent victim of a relentless political witch hunt. The Mueller investigation is widely regarded as a complete and utter failure - if anything, it has absolved him of any wrongdoing and inoculated him from further frame ups.
While the Left has remained fixated on their campaign to impeach Trump for (?), he has steadily advanced his administration’s policy agenda, virtually unapposed. The Left has been completely missing in action when it comes to debating the merits of Trump’s trade policy, his deregulation policy, his energy policy, his fiscal policy. They have failed to counter his devastatingly successful judicial appointments. Even his immigration policy is moving forward, countered only by ineffective emotional outbursts and charges that he is a racist.
The Democrats are showing the American people their ugly side and it is largely Trump’s doing. They now are on the verge of losing a midterm election that by all accounts was historically theirs for the taking.
He plays them like a fiddle.
The mass media propaganda tools are reserved for the generals and their central staff, who know very well they are commanding the most powerful weapons against the US. Simply put, they are in a war with traditional, normal everyday Americans, and they aim to defeat us.
Opinion pieces like the one posted are nothing more than an updated version of Tokyo Rose - intentional, deliberate misinformation designed to sow doubt and erode the will to fight for freedom.
Trust Sessions, Trust The Plan. /BS!
It now looks like Sessions may have been a critical part in the attempt to frame Trump!
Based on this new report, it now appears that Sessions may HAVE been trying to collude with Russians. And if true, it could certainly explain his otherwise bizarre behavior, where he has conceded all his power in this regard to those running the witch hunt, Mueller and Rosenstein. It appears he knows they can implicate him as a primary conspirator, if he doesn’t play along, since he was the root of the collusion, very possibly by design of the deep state, in an attempt to frame Trump. Much more bellievable than the incrwaingly absurd claim that Trump is now publicly comparing Sessions to that traitor Eric Holder, but is secretly still supporting him.
I have explained repeatedly on FR about my method of dividing Leftists into three groups:
The Good Hearted Liberals ( generally normal people who mean well, but are mis/malinformed, but you can talk to them)
The True Believers (The spittle-lipped useful idiot cannon-fodder of the Left, the Code Pinkos and such...you avoid these people)
Lastly, the Power Leftists, who know that all the crap about social justice and oppressed minorities are just tools for them, they don’t believe any of that liberal claptrap. They know it is all about power. Those are people like Soros, Obama, Clinton, et al.
The author of this piece is one of the spittle-lipped True Believers.
I posit that the confused aren't allowed anywhere near WAPO, NYT, CNN, et al (other than to fetch coffee and provide some free tail).
Rather, the deluded are kept confined to campuses, protests, and other cannon fodder venues. That's why, while we may disagree with articles published at the MSM flagship banners, we need to keep apprised of their actions.
It's the mindless rantings of small blogs, regional papers and college newspapers that don't provide any real insight, other than, as you say, to learn where to stay away.
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