Posted on 04/24/2018 11:42:22 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided against recusing himself from the investigation into President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, but will consider stepping back from specific questions tied to the probe, according to a person familiar with the matter.
By contrast, Sessions recused himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election that’s now led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, a decision that angered Trump and left Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in charge of the inquiry.
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Sessions, who was a top adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign, announced in March 2017 that he had decided he should steer clear of “any matters arising from the campaigns” for president. Trump has called Sessions weak for doing so and said he never would have named him as attorney general had he known the recusal would follow. Entitled to Briefings
By staying involved in the Cohen probe, Sessions is entitled to briefings on the status of the investigation, which is being conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York. That could put Sessions in the position of being asked by Trump, who strongly condemned the FBI raid on his longtime lawyer, to divulge information about the Cohen investigation.
Sessions could also weigh in on specific decisions by prosecutors, including whether to pursue subpoenas and indictments. The attorney general may be asked about his role in the Cohen investigation when he testifies before congressional panels on Wednesday and Thursday.
The investigation into Cohen’s finances and past work was opened based in part on a referral from Mueller.
The Justice Department declined to comment specifically about decisions on recusal in the Cohen investigation, saying only that Sessions follows appropriate procedures.
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Supposedly, the "ideal age" at the Wedding Day is half the husband's age, plus 7. The Trumps wed in 2005. He was 58. She was 35. Half of 58 is 29, adding 7 gets 36. They were off by one year.
(Using that rubric, 20 should marry 17... 40 should marry 27... etc)
Yeh because nothing screams danger to our culture like medical marijuana. Gotta protect asset forfeiture. Forget going after the real criminals in our govt.
Sessions deserves to be dissed. He's the biggest do-nothing to ever hold high public office.
What has he done???
[A couple of nuked cities might do it for a few weeks]
I used to think it would be some associate of SA.
These days I’m leaning towards Iran and/or Pakistan.
I don’t expect it would be a missile. I’d expect something sailed into a port.
But then, I DO wear a tinfoil hat some days.
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