Posted on 06/06/2017 7:21:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON Few Republicans were quicker to embrace President Trumps campaign last year than Jeff Sessions, and his reward was one of the most prestigious jobs in America. But more than four months into his presidency, Mr. Trump has grown sour on Mr. Sessions, now his attorney general, blaming him for various troubles that have plagued the White House.
The discontent was on display on Monday in a series of stark early-morning postings on Twitter in which the president faulted his own Justice Department for its defense of his travel ban on visitors from certain predominantly Muslim countries. Mr. Trump accused Mr. Sessionss department of devising a politically correct version of the ban as if the president had nothing to do with it.
In private, the presidents exasperation has been even sharper. He has intermittently fumed for months over Mr. Sessionss decision to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in last years election, according to people close to Mr. Trump who insisted on anonymity to describe internal conversations. In Mr. Trumps view, they said, it was that recusal that eventually led to the appointment of a special counsel who took over the investigation.
Behind-the-scenes frustration would not be unprecedented in the Oval Office. Other presidents have become estranged from the Justice Department over time, notably President Bill Clinton, who bristled at Attorney General Janet Renos decisions to authorize investigations into him and his administration, among other things. But Mr. Trumps tweets on Monday made his feelings evident for all to see and raised questions about how he is managing his own administration.
They wholly undercut the idea that there is some rational process behind the presidents decisions, said Walter E. Dellinger, who served as acting solicitor general under Mr. Clinton.
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Fake news to be repeated time after time on the cable news shows. I know now not to bother with Special Report on Fox tonight.
the NYT has destroyed itself
who takes anything they say as true any longer
Sessions is a tough cookie...appearances are deceiving.
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As you may have read---the divorce is off and Anthony's moving back in. I guess Huma needs to keep Anthony close-by to keep his mouth zipped (not his pants).
Anthony might spill the beans about Huma's endless line of cousins dipping into Hillary's State Dept 's numerous slush funds...... the cousins becoming millionaires sucking up our tax dollars.
Also has A LOT to do w/ Huma's having the wherewithal to pay a pricey 12,000 monthly rental.....w/ her cut of the cousins' millions.
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REFERENCE----This'll give you nightmares, people.....counting up the endless line of Huma's cousins w/ their greedy Muslim hands in the State Dept cookie jar.
UNDER HOUSE ARREST---This smirking creep is Huma's first cousin AKA a serial swindler
He subsidized businesses w/ our tax dollars looted from Hillary's State Dept. He made six million dollars vanish.
EXCERPT--Thanks for getting in touch. Would love to arrange a meeting, Huma Abedin replied in a June 23, 2009, email to her cousin Omar Amanat and Shamil Idriss, who heads New York-based Soliya Inc.
In May 2010, then-Secy Clinton helped Soliya get access to U.N. funding by making the U.S. a participant in a U.N. high-tech media initiative called the Alliance of Civilizations. Then in October 2010, the State Department directly awarded Soliya $1.25 million for a media technology project. Huma helped Omar make KIT appear more valuable because of its association with the Alliance of Civilizations, which was approved by Hillary and funded in part by U.S. grants (tax dollars), said an attorney familiar with the case.
This helped Omar raise money for KIT, which he and his brother misappropriated for other purposes. Approximately $6 million has vanished.
Amanat took KIT Digital public in August 2009. At the time, Amanat, known as a serial swindler, was in personal bankruptcy and being sued by other investors. Despite his reputation, he still managed to gain special access to US government tax dollars thanks to his ties to his well-positioned cousin and the Clinton Foundation.
THE MONEY LAUNDRY Records show that Omar Amanat and several other Abedin family members and related charities have together donated as much as $1.2 million to the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative, as well as the Clinton Health Access Initiative.
Omar Amanat, Abedin's cousin, who personally contributed as much as $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation, was appointed to the Council on Foreign Relations during the time that Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary of state.
While the FBI has apparently closed its espionage investigation into Clintons unsecured private email server (the House has reopened it), its public corruption investigation into the Clinton Foundation remains open.
Its not clear if this still-active probe overlaps with the Amanat fraud investigation. However, investigators reportedly continue to look into alleged pay-for-play schemes involving the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation and its wealthy donors, as well as entities that paid the Clintons millions of dollars in speaking fees.
Judicial Watch and other government watchdog groups have charged that the Clinton Foundation was a pay-for-play operation that rewarded its benefactors with State Department favors. And tax dollars....all you could possible want.
Nice deconstruction....your insights are flawless.
Fake News
Nonsense.
Thank you! I think my track record since mid-2016 has been pretty good. LOL.
If this part isnt true it should be.The lib deputy appointed Mueller who is keeps casting a wider and wider net. Hes out to get Trump and hes Comeys buddy. You can bet Mueller helped Comey prep for his Thursday show. Sessions recusal may yet prove to be one of the biggest blunders in history. A Rat would never have done it.Never.
I couldn't agree more. The objective is to get things done, not play Mr. Nice Guy. Sessions did nothing wrong yet he took himself out of the rats big game of ruining Trump.
Is anyone keeping a won/loss, or true/false record on the NYT anti-Trump stories?
Even canaries can’t stand to have NYT paper in their cages!
BS.........
worst thing Sessions could have done....now they are running wild with this Russia story. Just plain dumb.
Translation - Pravda on the Hudson attempting to sow dissension between Sessions and Trump, as if either one cares what Pravda on the Hudson says.
if Trump is forced from office...for ANY reason, history will show that the Sessions recusal was the turning point....gave the never Trumpers just what they wanted. Holder, Lynch etc would never had done this....
Me too...
hes a typical republican...scared to death of the media....nice guy and all, but this is a death match...they want Trumps blood.
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