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Trump Humiliated Jeff Sessions After Mueller Appointment
NY Times ^ | 09/14/17 | MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MAGGIE HABERMAN

Posted on 09/14/2017 6:53:16 PM PDT by CaptainK

WASHINGTON — Shortly after learning in May that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate links between his campaign associates and Russia, President Trump berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Oval Office meeting and said he should resign, according to current and former administration officials and others briefed on the matter.

The president attributed the appointment of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to Mr. Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the Justice Department’s Russia investigation — a move Mr. Trump believes was the moment his administration effectively lost control over the inquiry. Accusing Mr. Sessions of “disloyalty,” Mr. Trump unleashed a string of insults on his attorney general.

Ashen and emotional, Mr. Sessions told the president he would quit and sent a resignation letter to the White House, according to four people who were told details of the meeting. Mr. Sessions would later tell associates that the demeaning way the president addressed him was the most humiliating experience in decades of public life.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agsessions; sessions; trump
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To: McGruff

Maggie Hagerman. Just stop.


41 posted on 09/14/2017 7:26:10 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: CaptainK

Never trust unnamed sources from the NY Times. That said, Trump should be unhappy with Sessions.


42 posted on 09/14/2017 7:30:23 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: CaptainK

This article makes both Sessions AND Trump look like wishy washy men who don’t know what they are doing. Oh, LOOK! Gee, this article is in the New York Times.

I don’t believe the general outline. I don’t believe the alleged specifics. This is fully in line with the typical psych-ops of the leftists. Could be true, could be un-true. But, you have no idea considering the source.


43 posted on 09/14/2017 7:32:57 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: bigbob
What we do know is he hasn't unrecused himself which he could do at anytime. He is a traitor pure and simple - apparently a dumb one at that he has destroyed his reputation, the one thing he supposedly was trying to protect. Just another crooked senator with no integrity. "Long in the swamp he has been - loser he has become" to paraphrase someone who has lived in a swamp.

The word Senator is becoming an insult.

44 posted on 09/14/2017 7:36:33 PM PDT by datricker (The wall will protect the border and be a symbol the voters do have a say in their government.)
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To: CaptainK

Attorney General position is the ONLY defense a President has against the deep state.

Jeff Sessions you LOSER! RESIGN!

Let us elect Trump Jr and not duplicate mistakes.


45 posted on 09/14/2017 7:37:37 PM PDT by TheNext (Obamacare is KILLING GRANDMA!)
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To: CaptainK

Fake news. Bannon never said one word about this. And Bannon personally told me “Jeff Sessions is my best friend.”


46 posted on 09/14/2017 7:38:35 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: nickcarraway

I assume most of the people here think Bannon was really good.

Therefore it might come as a surprise that Bannon told me that “Sessions had to recuse himself. There wasn’t an option. He had to not be a part of the Russian investigation.”


47 posted on 09/14/2017 7:40:03 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: CaptainK
Sessions is a swamp rat. Even a Liberal Lawyer like Dershowitz: “Mueller's special counsel appointment begs the question — are our civil liberties now at risk?” In essence states the appointment is a Stalinist tactic, “show me me the man and I'll show you the crime”.

Numbnutz Sessions should say so and ditch Mueller.

48 posted on 09/14/2017 7:40:49 PM PDT by Tuketu (The Dim Platform is splinters bound by crazy glue. TRUMP is the solvent.)
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To: bigbob
Speculation is much more fun than fighting.
IMO, Trump has kicked the can back at the swamp!! Hope it steers Right, not Left.
49 posted on 09/14/2017 7:40:54 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: bigbob

I agree with what you said. However, I believe Trump made a big mistake appointing Sessions in the first place and that Sessions was never going to be up to the job.

I think Trump was trying to repay loyalty and gave Sessions the wrong slot...should have been a minor cabinet position.

Easy for me to say...I’m not POTUS and not in the middle of a $hit storm.


50 posted on 09/14/2017 7:44:32 PM PDT by Aria
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To: CaptainK

And here we have people on this site who swallow the likes of the NYT hook line and sinker.

THE FRIGGAN NEWSPAPER HAS BECOME A TABLOID.

All the news we can make up-the NY Times.


51 posted on 09/14/2017 7:54:19 PM PDT by crz
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To: Aria

“I think Trump was trying to repay loyalty and gave Sessions the wrong slot..”

As men age and enter the late sixties to seventies years of their life span, most become less aggressive. Aggressiveness was necessary for the AG position following the eight years of Obama administration. People often become more tired and often just want to get along. Trump was elected because he still seemed to have that aggressiveness and fighting spirit. Sessions has mostly lost that. He was excellent at what he was doing in the Senate, speaking out about unbridled immigration.


52 posted on 09/14/2017 8:00:02 PM PDT by Antipolitico
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To: stockpirate

“Sessions is useless in his office, just look at all the people he will not investigate.”

Agreed. He is merely an obstacle. An inert lump.


53 posted on 09/14/2017 8:12:36 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Why defend the EU?)
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To: proust

NYT. Beware of fake news. Otherwise known as disinformation.


54 posted on 09/14/2017 8:12:54 PM PDT by Fhios (Down with your fascism, up with our fascism.)
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To: Antipolitico

That’s true about age.

There are clinics that will pump up a man’s testerone. We ought to send Sessions.


55 posted on 09/14/2017 8:13:43 PM PDT by Aria
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To: stockpirate

Sessions wants better ammo and armor for cops so they don’t get hurt while killing the family dog.


56 posted on 09/14/2017 8:17:39 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Electric Graffiti
“Ashen and emotional, Mr. Sessions told the president he would quit and sent a resignation letter to the White House, according to four people who were told details of the meeting.”

NY slimes fake news.

So who was in the room with Sessions and President Trump to observe this ashen face and divine his emotions and then leak these observations to the NY Slime balls. . . I sincerely doubt that a consummate business manager, which is who Donald Trump is, would ever dress down a subordinate in the presence of anyone else, or later describe to others how that subordinate reacted to such a criticism. Once done, it would be over, one way or the other, done, not to be revisited or spread to others except for agreed action. This smells.

57 posted on 09/14/2017 8:20:47 PM PDT by Swordmaker (!This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... bet if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Sessions is part of the swamp...


58 posted on 09/14/2017 8:36:46 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: CaptainK; All

What totally blows my mind is that anyone on FR believes bag’o’barf propaganda from the freaking NEW YORK TIMES for cryin out loud.


59 posted on 09/14/2017 8:58:38 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: CaptainK

Sessions should never have chosen colluder RosenKrantz.

Sessions is held captive at DoJ by the holdover Swamp Critters.


60 posted on 09/14/2017 9:19:06 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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