As Sessions Sidelines Himself, What's Next in Russia Inquiries?

CNBC ^ | 2-3-2017 | CNBC Staff

[Trump_vs_Evil_Witch]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal leaves any Justice Department investigation of alleged Russian election interference temporarily in the hands of a prosecutor promoted by Barack Obama.

That means it's the job of Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente to oversee any investigations related to the presidential campaigns by the FBI or Justice Department attorneys.

[Trump_vs_Evil_Witch]

DUMB MOVE, ....can't Trump appoint his own Special Prosecutor to investigate Obama, the Fake Russian hacking story, & Sessions allegedged involved whatever instead of falling for this trap? Somebody around President Trump needs to learn to play hardball fast against this globalists coup attempt.

[madison10]

Did Sessions fully recuse himself or was there a caveat? Thought there was an “if” in there.

[Alberta's Child]

Note the bold item in this line:

Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente

The guy's position is temporary by definition.

There will be no investigation of any substance, since there is nothing for them to find. Now Trump and Sessions don't have to be the ones who explain why.

[FlingWingFlyer]

What’s next? A bunch of “classified, unleakable evidence” proving that the Rooskis did it. They can’t show the American people the “evidence” though because they would have to kill us.

[FlingWingFlyer]

One of Idi Amin Obama’s boys has got it all under control. Barry is so proud.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Trump could stop this nonsense and cut the legs off the left by charging John McCain, The Hildabeast, Valerie Jarrett, Chuckie Schumer, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Harry Reid, Jeff Zucker, Jeff Bezos, Joseph Kahn and Claire McCaskill with treason and arresting them all.

The accused can spend the next 5-6 years defending themselves against the allegations as their cases move through the maze of the federal judicial process and the MSM and their lackeys will fix their focus on this injustice and howl and sputter in outrage.

It’s the seriousness of the charges that count.

[Trump_vs_Evil_Witch]

Is Reince Priebus the FIGHTER President Trump desperately needs to defend his Administration?

[Ancesthntr]

This whole thing about Russia is utter nonsense. I simply cannot believe that this country is wasting so much time and effort over pure bunk.

Let’s try to look at this a bit logically, shall we?

1) Russia obtains about 68% of its foreign currency earnings (as of 2013) from the sale of oil and natural gas. http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=17231 As an exporter of these resources, even an idiot can understand that it is clearly in Russia’s national interest to have the highest possible prices for them. Russia is actually running out of foreign currency reserves, which it uses to cover its own budget deficits, and is rather desperate to have oil rise in price to stabilize and even replenish its foreign reserves. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/27/russias-reserve-fund-could-run-empty-in-2016.html

Oh, yeah, and Hillary Clinton pledged to NOT allow the XL Pipeline to be built, to continue to NOT grant drilling leases on federal land or offshore, to continue to put every regulatory roadblock imaginable to reduce domestic oil production, to NOT allow new coal mines (and, in fact, to shut down as many as possible), etc., etc. (all ostensibly to reduce “global warming” but, more likely, to be the pay-off of some pretty hefty, uh “contributions” to the Clinton Foundation by oil-rich foreign countries, and a means of extracting even more of such “contributions”). IOW, her policies, if implemented, would have reduced the supply of fossil fuel energy in the world, thus driving prices UP (which would be very good for Russia). Donald Trump, OTOH, pledged (and so far is following through on that pledge) to unleash American energy companies to drill and mine as much oil, natural gas and coal as possible, to increase employment and (SPECIFICALLY) to reduce the price of these commodities (which would lead to yet more job creation here). This would be (i.e. is and will be) very bad for Russia.

2) The U.S. and Russia are geopolitical rivals. In ANY geopolitical rivalry, each side seeks to have if not actual military superiority, then at least sufficient trained and well-equipped forces to inflict very serious damage on any rival or combination of rivals. Of course, for superpowers or great powers, building that type of a military is an enormously expensive proposition...and, as noted above, Russia already has budget deficit problems, WITHOUT having to compete with a new US military build-up.

Hillary Clinton has never been known as a “hawk” on foreign or defense policy, and there is no good reason to believe that she would have engaged in a large build-up of US military forces, nor that she would have been credibly aggressive in opposing Russia across the globe. Donald Trump, OTOH, pledged a massive build-up of US forces, and has (like in so many other areas) followed through on his pledge by asking Congress for the largest percentage increase in the peacetime Defense budget since Ronald Reagan’s first term. I will note that it is widely believed that the US military build-up of the 1980s had the effect of adding substantially to Soviet economic difficulties, all of which combined in the late 1980s and early 1990s to effectively bankrupt the Soviet Empire and lead to the removal of the Communist Party from leadership of the Soviet Union (which no longer exists - THANK YOU, Ronald Reagan and Bill Casey!!!). Another such build-up now would place incredible strains upon the Russian economy, possibly leading to another change of government.

3) If the Russians had damaging/compromising information on Hillary Clinton as a result of hacking her at-home and unsecured server, which would have been the better use for it:

a) Before the Presidential election, so as to damage her chances of obtaining office?

or

b) After the election, and even after she had entered office, when it could have been used to blackmail or otherwise persuade her to change policy?
So which candidate in the 2016 Presidential election did the Russians REALLY want to win? If they are self-interested (and one has to believe that they are), then Donald Trump would have been BY FAR the worse choice for the Russians.
The simple fact is that NOBODY heard anything about “the Russians” and their supposed”hacking of the election” until Wikileaks revealed that the DNC and the Clinton campaign had conspired to deny Bernie Sanders the Democrat nomination for President. IMMEDIATELY upon the release of this information, the DNC and the Clinton campaign proceeded to blame the messenger (or the supplier of the messenger), rather than to even attempt to refute the substance of the emails that Wikileaks had released. IOW, the DNC and the Clinton campaign saw a mortal danger to their political futures, and decided to shout “SQUIRREL!!!!” while pointing in the opposite direction from where everyone’s attention had been focused.

So, the bottom line is that they are a bunch of lying cover-up artists, and not even very good ones at that (because it is OBVIOUS that the Russians had every reason in the world to prefer a Clinton Presidency).

[Wolfie]

I give Sessions a week, two at most, before he resigns.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[Is Reince Priebus the FIGHTER President Trump desperately needs ]

Priebus is a RINO squish pu$$y that’s only looking out for his fellow RINO BFFs like Ryan.

If anyone has ever seen House of Cards and knows who Doug Stamper is, THAT is who Pres Trump needs as a Chief of Staff!!!
(without the obsession over hookers)

[jettester]

I thought Sessions said if there was an investigation on the campaign? Also, if any investigation into “Russian ties” will probably, and most likely, include any and all connections to the Russians - including Democrats. Finally, why was Obama investigating and recording conversations of possible Trump cabinet people?

[Grampa Dave]

Flashback: Chuck Schumer Meets with Putin in New York City

Jim Hoft Mar 2nd, 2017 7:10 pm

Where’s the outrage?

Democrat Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer continues to push the Russia conspiracy.

But it was Schumer who met with Putin in New York City – not Trump.

The picture above was taken in 2003 as Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, enjoys a Krispy Kreme doughnut and coffee with Senator Charles Schumer from New York as Putin visits the first New York gas station of the Russian company Lukoil.

The hysteria over Trump administration officials talking — or not talking — with Russia needs to end.

It’s getting in the way of putting America back on track.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/03/flashback-chuck-schumer-meets-vlad-putin-new-york-city/

[hotsteppa]

There is nothing else in the Russian inquiries and the replacement for the deputy position will be filled soon by someone Trump nominated.

Now that yesterday's so called controversy has been moved on, the mainstream media needs to further the story by now making up assumptions about nonexistent investigations. The russian did it story will run its ridiculous course as there is nothing there. So while they keep their focus on that, Trump and Americans are moving on to MAGA.

If you all wanna keep wringing your hands about OMG, why did sessions do this and sessions do that, Sessions is still the AG and still moving on.

[InterceptPoint]

My strong recommendation for how to deal with:

The Russian Plot to Conspire With the Trump Campaign to Win the Presidency for Donald Trump and Then to Blackmail Trump in Order to Conquer the West and Totally Dominate Western Civilization.

I would recommend we stop talking about it. Sean, Rush, Tucker are you listening?

[Grampa Dave]

Pelosi meets with Russian President Medvedev

Russian President Medvedev Meets With Senate, House Leaders On Capitol Hill

In This Photo: Nancy Pelosi, Dmitry Medvedev

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stands next to Russian President Dimitri Medvedev who signs the visitor's guest book while visiting Ms. Pelosi on Capitol Hill June 24, 2010 in Washington, DC. Medvedev with President Obama attended a business summit at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

[Mercat]

I think that there was a super top secret meeting today of Comey and congresscritters from both parties and the dems were really not happy. hahaha

[Parmy]

Question——Did Eric Holder or Lynch ever recuse themselves from anything?

[Dogbert41]

Agree. Absolutely stupid.

[SamAdams76]

All these alarmist posts by armchair political strategists.

I've been hearing this panicked "Trump is outmatched" narrative since he got into the race back in June of 2015. Haven't we learned by now that Trump is often 2 or 3 moves ahead of everybody else?

Trump and his team know what they are doing. Let's just see how things unfold.

[Trump_vs_Evil_Witch]

ALARMIST!.....there is a coup going on dummy! Obama is behind it.....along with the global socialist conspirators on both sides of the aisle.