Posted on 06/01/2018 8:00:02 PM PDT by Bratch
Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon publicly defended Attorney General Jeff Sessions from the attacks he’s facing from President Trump.
Trump has privately and publicly blasted Sessions’ decision to recuse himself in the federal probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, most recently on Wednesday, writing on Twitter he wishes he’d chosen someone other than Sessions.
But the President is “wrong,” Bannon told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview set to air Sunday.
Trump pressured Sessions on at least four separate occasions last year to take back control of the Russia investigation, but Session refused, Axios reported.
Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the Russia probe “is not even an issue,” and that Trump should not dwell on the matter, the former Breitbart News chief argued.
“If you look at what Jeff Sessions has done on immigration on migration and all the key issues at the Justice Department, I think that Sessions has personally done an excellent job.”
Bannon added that anyone associated with the Trump campaign, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani or former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, would have also recused themselves from the Russia investigation.
The Steve Bannon Special Interview
Last July, after Trump characterized Sessions “beleaguered” and threatened to fire him, Bannon reportedly led the effort to save the attorney general’s job while he was still at the White House, warning that his dismissal would exacerbate the Russia investigation.
Bannon left his White House post last August, but he and Trump appeared to have reached a breaking point in January after Bannon was quoted disparaging the president’s children, asserting that Donald Trump Jr. had been “treasonous” in meeting with Russians and calling Ivanka Trump “dumb as a brick” in Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
Trump responded to the controversy, with a statement issued by the White House.
“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency,” Trump said. “When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.”
The full interview will air on CNN on Sunday.
Except that, IF, which I do believe, the corruption is so wide and vast that every prosecution brought forth by the 'just-us' department, since Bill and Hillry were running the show is now suspect. Sessions has a bigger job than was needed to clean up the toxic dump called 'Love Canal'. The whole system was corrupted from top to bottom by the Clintons... Exactly how does anyone claim to know how to clean up and out, the very 'system' that is totally polluted? Think about it, every prosecution since the Clintons by the 'just-us' department is now in question.
How bright was his nose when he said this?
How interesting. Not only is Bannon an expert on the staggering greatness of Saint Jeff Sessions—he's also apparently a psychic as well!
Let me pose a couple of questions, Mr. Steve Bannon:
As AG, would former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani or former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have recused themselves without even consulting President Trump beforehand?
Furthermore, would either of these two alternate candidates even accept the nomination for Attorney General if they knew they'd have to immediately recuse themselves, leaving biased Swamp Thing Rod Rosenstein—with his blatant conflicts of interest—in charge of the Russia investigation, thereby hamstringing the Trump administration for virtually the entirety of President Trump's first term?
You stupid b-tch...
Sessions is only a ‘half’ Attorney General due to his recusal. That alone makes his acceptance of the position appear inconsiderate. Why did he feel the need to take the job? There are so many that are more competent and less conflicted than he.
The AG office does not have a sign on it that says ‘expressly created for Jeff Sessions’.
Who decided it was ‘right’ that any law enforcement personnel could LIE to get a conviction?
Why do you ignore, willingly, that the whole 'russia' accusation was a big lie... and many in the GOPe assisted willingly to attempt to interfere and prevent a Trump presidency... What part of 'by law' Session could NOT investigate the Trump campaign? Name ONE more competent and less conflicted? Right now the whole 'law business' is one big corrupt business.
Steve Bannon supports Rosenstein being the Attorney General who was involved with Obama’s FBI using the fake dossier to obtain the FISA Warrant to spy on Trump?
"Steve Bannon is a bad man" - Ben Shapiro
The first five minutes spells it out. Bannon is a political leech. He wins favor from people then advances himself at their expense. He tried that with Trump, let it go to his head, and was fired for it. Then ran off at the mouth and received one of the most brutal public firing letters ever.
His new game is pretty obvious. He's trying to rebrand himself as another one of CNN's anti-republican Republicans. If making Trump look bad is good for Bannon, Bannon will try to make Trump look bad.
Sessions followed the law? He recused himself from an investigation,before it even commenced. And he cited a criminal statute, when the Russian BS was launched as counterintel.
Sessions admits he needed others in DOJ to “advise” him @ the need to recuse. Doesn’t sound to me ad if Sessions is the warmest log on the fire.
Huh? Bannon did support Sessions, did you read the article?
Sad, I think he’s lost his moorings.
Rudy Giuliani.
Mueller is going to exonerate Trump. Sessions’ recusal is going to shield the Trump administration against charges of whitewashing the matter for political reasons. You heard it here first.
Bannon doing an interview on CNN, for one thing.
We used to have a concept called the PermaBan©. When someone crossed a certain line, they’d go on the permanent ****list without the need to remember why.
I guess that’s pretty much what I’ve adopted for myself.
I can see problems with implementation as a group as people’s favorites were evaluated for inclusion.
It really troubles me when I see public figures drifting in and out of our comfort zone, yet playing us as if they’re always rock solid.
Some of them certainly aren’‘t And yet some folks are blind to it.
I'll hold my fire. So much fake news out there.
Axios, not trustworthy. It’s a propaganda effort from the radical left and dishes out fodder for major publications of the far left. Big bucks behind it.
I’m over Bannon but while we have many reasons to detest Sessions, he has managed to get a few things right.
Sessions’ problem is that Trump doesn’t appreciate him. Trump has been scathing in his criticism of Sessions ever since the blindside recusal. No, it’s not ‘kabuki.’ That’s the most deranged theory since ‘authorities,’ concluded that multiple Clinton associates committed suicide via two or more shots to the head.
Me, too.
Bannon reminds me of comedian Steve Kinison. Intense, disheveled, charismatic, often skating near or over the edge.
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