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.
Go to Hell bashing our courageous AG!
As FreeRegin stated in the above post, Graham was making an implied threat that Trump would be impeached if he fired Sessions, but you don’t do nuance.
What you do is try & make points & insult fellow conservatives. Make a big deal out of nothing.
Take my advice about your personal life. It will do you worlds of good.
I get in a kerfuffle out here on rare occasions & in the end, it’s a waste of time. That’s on me & I’m going to make an effort to can this nonsense in the future & move on.
Or, shes beautiful because shes been turned against the deep state.
“Go to Hell bashing our courageous AG!”
LMAO...Don’t even bother drug testing this guy ;)
Graham made the following threats.
"If Jeff Sessions is fired, there will be Holy Hell to pay."
"Any effort to go after Mueller could be the beginning of the end of Trump's presidency...unless Mueller did something wrong."
Graham also threatened to pass some kind of (unconstitutional) legislation that would protect Mueller.
Certainly, Graham was implying that Trump would lose political support from his own party.
That's why I think that Trump is playing a long game. Trump's letting the facts come out and Trump is concentrating on his many successes...for now. As Trump says, at some point he'll get involved with his DOJ.
Go to Hell bashing our courageous AG
Yep. It took great courage for Sessions to recuse(AWOL)
himself from the biggest scandals in American history.
I'm sure there are more than a few RINO Senators that would jump on the convict and remove bandwagon.
Not enough votes to remove. But their goal would be to sidetrack the Trump agenda.
Graham made the following threats.
I gave you the "so what", and you ignored it. As I said, their goal would be to sidetrack the Trump agenda.
who do you think is running the party now. not a question.
Why do you think we don't have full funding for the wall? And that is a rhetorical question.
A recess appointment is different from this 210 day Federal Vacancies Act. A recess appointment would be even better for Trump and the Senate would have to remain in session to keep him from exercising it.
Add me to your party
I’m sure they are staging a five-act drama in the media - to what end we can’t know. But I’m also sure the Democrat leadership doesn’t believe Trump is mad at Sessions, either. They are likely furious that Trump’s phony attacks on Sessions are giving Sessions credibility that can be used against Democrat interests in the future, but it hardly helps them to point that out.
There are also ‘interim appointments’. There doesn’t need to be a recess if the appointee has been confirmed to a different job. This allows the President to bypass the next-in-line bureaucrat and put one of his own people in charge temporarily.
It goes back to President Nixon. President Richard Nixon ordered his Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire the Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox. AG Richardson resigned instead.
William D. Ruckelshaus was the Deputy AG and also refused to fire Cox, so he was fired by President Nixon.
Robert Bork, who was then the Solicitor General then fired SP Cox. This was presented as Obstruction of Justice by the President. Since then the Attorney General position has been considered sacrosanct when a high level DoJ investigation is ongoing.
THE DEMOCRATS’ ‘GENERIC BALLOT’ ADVANTAGE HAS ALL BUT DISAPPEARED
http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/10/democrats-generic-ballot-disappeared/
The biggest threat to FR is the Q nuts. They will destroy credibility and falsely label FR a Q site faster than anything else.
No one bothers even responding. He probably is sessions.
Or, shes beautiful because shes been turned against the deep state.
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That’s exactly what I said earlier. That’s Trump lingo for “well done, baby”.
Then there are those of us who like AG Sessions and respect him for being so early to get on the Trump Train. I doubt President Trump would have succeeded if not for AG Sessions and Steve Miller. Those of us who followed the campaign closely saw how much better Trump was on the campaign trail when Sessions was with him and how all of the real good speeches probably have a lot of Steve Miller input. (the strong historical context).
I suspect President Trump would be fairing better with his AG if he weren't so confrontational with him.
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