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I had just made a comment about AP News going from reporting to editorializing. This is a good example. Fake News? I post, you decide.
1 posted on 07/25/2017 2:31:22 AM PDT by McGruff
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according to three people who have recently spoken to the president. They demanded anonymity to discuss private conversations.


2 posted on 07/25/2017 2:32:56 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Rudy Guiuliani for Head of FBI)
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Fake news which might have actually been leaked by Trump himself. Trump’s all about misdirection and something big is about to happen.


3 posted on 07/25/2017 2:38:17 AM PDT by JohnyBoy
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Who needs “ advisors” who blab this type of conversation to the press???

Is there NO loyalty to the President?
No one to whom he can speak confidentially for advice??


5 posted on 07/25/2017 2:44:43 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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Sessions is great but, his hasty decision to recuse put Dem holdovers in charge of the Justice Dept and we got an indy counsel that has hamstrung the administration. We can have Sessions or #MAGA but it appears, not both, at this point. I want #MAGA.


7 posted on 07/25/2017 2:45:15 AM PDT by major-pelham
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/giuliani-says-hes-not-being-eyed-for-ag-backs-sessionss-decision-to-recuse/ar-AAoLE29


8 posted on 07/25/2017 2:52:00 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Nonsense! If President Trump wanted Jeff Sessions gone, he’d have been gone already!!!!!


9 posted on 07/25/2017 2:54:14 AM PDT by siamesecats (God closes one door, and opens another, to protect us.)
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Fake news.

This is the problem with CNN...almost 30 minutes of every hour now is focused on editorializing. Back in January, it might have been worth the effort but I think they’ve lost about a quarter of their normal viewers since January, and I think another quarter will disappear by spring of next year. If they just focused on the anti-Trump theme for one single hour each night...they might have kept some people as viewers and they could have avoided that anti-Trump hour. But by mixing this throughout the day....why watch?


10 posted on 07/25/2017 2:55:57 AM PDT by pepsionice
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I read the AP piece and I watched this video. I know what I believe.

Trump gets questioned about Sessions - priceless reaction

12 posted on 07/25/2017 3:20:26 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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I looked at the DOJ website. Jeff Sessions, as far as I can see, is the only confirmed Trump appointee in the department. The other senior positions are held by Actings, including a couple of former Sessions Senate staffers, who may be perfectly good hires but who have also not been confirmed. That's in DC. Across the country, the U.S. Attorneys are mostly Acting, with quite a few Obama holdovers still in place. So: if Trump fires Sessions, he will have fired the only Trump person in the entire Department (assuming the longtime Sessions staffers do not long survive the ouster of their boss).

As of last week, Trump had exactly 47 appointees confirmed across the entire government. Most open leadership positions do not yet even have nominees. Maybe Trump should start staffing his administration before he starts firing the few people he does have.

I think the people in this White House are in a bubble, or bunker, and are mostly oblivious to the great, grinding machinery of the government. They seem to be utterly consumed with the twitter wars and think they are busy because they are frantically responding to today's media distractions. The inner circle consists mostly of amateurs who seem to have a virtual reality view of the job. The government is a huge lumbering machine that can run for a long time on autopilot if all you want is more of the same. But it requires effective management if you actually want to change anything.

Cabinet Secretaries are running huge operations with tens of thousands of employees. The idea that a Secretary and three political appointees on his personal staff can effectively direct something that big is nonsensical. But the people in charge, and not just Trump himself, seem so busy with twitter wars and day to day damage control that they are simply ignoring 99 percent of what the government actually does.

Before Trump fires Sessions, if he does (and I think that would be a mistake), he'd better make sure the rest of the department is staffed with administration picks. Does anyone here really want to be a year into the Trump administration and have a DOJ without a single Republican in a management role?

Who is running the office of presidential personnel? It seems to be a black hole.

15 posted on 07/25/2017 3:31:09 AM PDT by sphinx
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I have no idea why Sessions hasn’t gotten the hint by now and resigned. Either he has no shame or he’s going to force Trump to fire him.


19 posted on 07/25/2017 3:39:10 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Fake news...If Trump wants Sessions gone he will just fire him. There could be a lot going on we don’t know about.
What does bother os there hasn’t been ANY leaks about RAT investigations


24 posted on 07/25/2017 3:51:05 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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The AP is fake news.


33 posted on 07/25/2017 3:59:35 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Fake News, “We make it up on the fly, you decide”

I think the Sessions comments by Trump are a false flag.


34 posted on 07/25/2017 4:00:14 AM PDT by stockpirate (SETH RICH gave the emails to wikikileaks via murdered ex-UK Amb, murdered he was, cover up it is)
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I think Trump is ticked off because Sessions is doing nothing about the career criminal Hillary Rotten who I believe and I think Trump believes is directly behind all this Russia collusion nonsense. She is the one organizing all this crap with her connections in the media and the Rat party. She has to be taken off the street and locked up where she belongs, not only to protect the public and show that we are a country of equal justice, but to put an end to this Russian nonsense so we can move ahead and get things done.


35 posted on 07/25/2017 4:02:17 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan from taking office.)
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With a lot of the recent rumblings about Sessions, what are your thoughts?


45 posted on 07/25/2017 4:20:13 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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Un-recuse himself! Problem solved! Then go after Illary, dammit!


51 posted on 07/25/2017 4:36:56 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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Could this all be theater? It is certainly keeping Hillary crimes in the news where before they had faded from print. Mentioned enough even slower Americans will begin to see.


55 posted on 07/25/2017 4:44:11 AM PDT by nclaurel
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There are some mistakes that can't be fixed, especially in government. I overheard at dinner a couple nights ago a couple discussing the massive protests planned WHEN Trump fires Mueller. That is the planned trigger that will end Trump. There will be no way this Congress will stick by him and he will be gone. It won't matter that there was never any Russia anything, but as usual the actions after the fact that will have brought him down.

The best path for Trump is to continue fighting and ride this out. That is the formula for maximum pain inflicted on the enemy. There is no sense in Trump blowing himself up, which is what firing Mueller in any form would be. Besides, Mueller might yet discredit himself in the process.

62 posted on 07/25/2017 4:53:06 AM PDT by Religion and Politics (It's Morning in America)
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I would call this official Fake News unless thy name the sources to corroborate what is being reported.


69 posted on 07/25/2017 5:08:40 AM PDT by eaglestar
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As others stated, this is fake news and indicates something big. I’m betting the justice department is going to announce either an investigation into Hillary Clinton or the seating of a grand jury based on existing evidence.


82 posted on 07/25/2017 5:53:11 AM PDT by Snowybear
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