Posted on 08/11/2018 1:17:29 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump ratcheted up his attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Saturday, tweeting that Sessions was "scared stiff" and "Missing in Action" in defending him amid special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Trump slammed Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer at the center of the Trump dossier scandal, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) and once again slammed Mueller's investigation as a "witch hunt."
"The big story that the Fake News Media refuses to report is lowlife Christopher Steele’s many meetings with Deputy A.G. Bruce Ohr and his beautiful wife, Nelly. It was Fusion GPS that hired Steele to write the phony & discredited Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary & the DNC," Trump tweeted.
"Do you believe Nelly worked for Fusion and her husband STILL WORKS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF 'JUSTICE.' I have never seen anything so Rigged in my life. Our A.G. is scared stiff and Missing in Action. It is all starting to be revealed - not pretty. IG Report soon? Witch Hunt!" he wrote.
Trump’s attack on Saturday was likely prompted by murmurings that the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is readying subpoenas for people connected to the controversial Steele dossier.
Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) is reportedly preparing subpoenas for DOJ official Bruce Ohr, his wife, Nellie Ohr, and Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, sources told The Hill this week.
Bruce Ohr is facing scrutiny from Republicans for his contacts with Simpson and Steele during the presidential campaign, the news of which prompted Trump allies to demand a special counsel investigation into the DOJ and FBI in December.
Simpson hired Steele to help produce the dossier that made a series of salacious allegations about Trump's connections with Russia.
Nellie Ohr worked for Fusion GPS during the presidential campaign — a fact that Republicans have promoted as a possible link between the DOJ and the opposition research firm.
Trump has gone after Sessions for the Russia probe before, saying earlier this month that the attorney general should stop the investigation "right now."
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further," Trump tweeted on Aug. 1.
Trump is also known to harbor hostility toward Sessions for recusing himself in the investigation.
“The Russian Witch Hunt Hoax continues, all because Jeff Sessions didn’t tell me he was going to recuse himself...I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined...and Sessions knew better than most that there was No Collusion!” the president tweeted in June.
Why would he do that?
Lets play this out.
Hillary becomes Speaker
Pence and his VP are killed on their way to church. (arkancide)
Hillary becomes President...
Unless Alexander Haig shows up. At which time he will claim to be next in line.
“Sessions is a POS EVIL SOB!!!”
Yup
Hope you...and most of us are wrong.
It would be great to apologize to Sessions about my comments but that probably won’t happen
LOL! Old School Baby!
What makes him evil?
I’ve gone from not liking to hating Sessions. He is definitely the reason this charade is dragging on. Rudy as AG would have never put up with this Shiite.
I’m sure she was an avid member of ARRL and went to all the local hamfests.
Why wouldn’t he do that?
The ‘russian collusion’ is a hoax and this is a coup by special counsel. Sessions KNEW that when he first recused himself in the face of that ‘russian collusion’ hoax. Single-handily giving legitimacy to that hoax.
Yeah. These corrupt douchebags should be made to understand that there will be “hell to pay” if Trump fires Sessions and they fail to approve a replacement for him.
Those worthless scumbags are accountable to we-the-people, and there are 50 million of us.
It was an attempt to mire the administration in scandal.
Didn’t happen.
I’m sure she was an avid member of ARRL and went to all the local hamfests.
Are we sure that’s even a woman? Take the hair away and it’s a man. He/she is a spitting image of someone but I can’t place what male actor or celebrity it is. It’s not Lorne Green or Alan Greenspan but there is someone that looks exactly like this.
Rudy as AG would have never put up with this Shiite.
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Yeah, well we have no one to blame but Rudy for THAT. If I remember correctly, he turned the job down.
These public attacks on sessions by trump indicate a failure of leadership and management responsibility on trumps part.
“It was an attempt to mire the administration in scandal. Didn’t happen.”
It’s been happening for more than a year now...say no to the oxy.
Trump should fire Sessions while Congress is on recess, then recess appoint someone with no ties to the DOJ or DC for that matter. Give him a one year mandate to clean out the stables and investigate the Hillary coverup. Then deal with a long term replacement.
Apparently u do not read very well.
So let me throw it at you again.
Sessions recusal is the reason for Muleheads witch hunt.
And because of this witch hunt, Flynn and Manifort were caught
in it too.
I said nothing about Sessions defending Flynn and Manifort.
Session’s recusal IS the reason for this mess.
And that is a fact.
Seriously? This country has not been more divided since the early 1860s.
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