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.
Yet, Sessions appointed Huber to follow along with the IG(who has recommended indictments) and I read somewhere yesterday Huber has a grand jury impaneled....and nobody thinks we have been watching a play designed to hide what has been happening for the last year.
Sessions walked into the most corrupt DOJ and FBI ever, he has had to deal with this him from day one. Nothing could be done in his organization to deal with "Russia, Russia, Russia" and every other scandal until he had cleaned house. Yet we think we know exactly what is going on with Mr. Magoo here at Freerepublic.
I have never seen DC like it has been this last year. It is very hard to read because so much is going on behind the scenes that is being kept quiet and we have a media that is nothing more than dem propaganda so learning the truth is not in their agenda. The more I watch the more I think I am watching purposeful misdirection.
Just my feeling.
And so Bannon joins Trey Gowdy and Karl Rove as a former darling of many on FR. Unfortunately, a lot of these political hacks have only one real guiding belief and principle: their own self-aggrandizement and enrichment.
Good observation.
Axios, not trustworthy. It’s a propaganda effort from the radical left and dishes out fodder for major publications of the far left.
IIR, it was started by same guy who started Polutico....can’t remember his name, right now.
I’ve noticed that Bret Baiar has an Axios person as a panel member, on his Special Report.
Telling.
Hope you’re right - I keep trying to give Sessions the benefit of the doubt and still have hopes but he seems to be a bit more wimpy than I had hoped....here’s to him making us all eat crow.
I don’t hold out hope. There was no reason in the world not to indict Trump-hating Deep State Clapper for perjury. He told a monstrous lie on camera. When the statute of limitations ran out on it in March, I threw in the towel.
I still hold a vestige of hope that when the rest of the web starts to unravel, it will open the door for Sessions to take more positive action - the whole deal is so complex and screwed up, with so many tendrils running every which way that the real opportunities may lie down the road....like I said......ever hopeful.....ever hopeful.....but not holding my breath anymore....
Thanks Pelham.
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Disgruntled employee syndrome.
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