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.
I agree. I believe that it’s possible that Sessions is playing Possum.
FR needs a ‘Q Caucus’ in the Religion Forum. Q is political Scientology.
8. Hillary Clinton chooses Maxine Waters as Vice President.
9. Hillary Clinton’s health fails.
10. Maxine Waters becomes President.
8. Civil War II
Get rid of the Sessions scumbag!
Good point.
Yep. Somebody might be playing Possum.
“and his beautiful wife, Nelly.”
LOL
Everything is timing. President Trump has a lot of dirt on theses bad actors and will be releasing it at the end of September before the election. what we have coming is not a October surprise but a October revelation that will devastate the demacrat party... If trump felt that Jeff sessions was not his man he would be gone tomorrow. this tweeting is kabuki theater. meant to distract those activists on the demacrat side of the political spectrum who are not insiders and don’t believe the demacrat party did anything wrong or don’t care if they did.
I do that here sometimes when I’m referring to Mr. Obama’s wife, or President Clinton’s or someone like Maxine Waters or the slovenly, fat actress from the “Ghostbusters” remake or Lena Dunham.
Man, I hope you’re wrong. Praying even.
“I also fear that insulting AG Sessions could get Steve Miller off the Trump train.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if Miller has been very disappointed by how his former mentor has shirked his responsibilities.
11. Maxine Waters chooses Tyrannosaurus Occasional-Kotex as Vice-President.
Oh, wait. She’s too young. It’ll have to be Hank Johnson, the idiot who thinks Guam is going to tip over.
Brenden M Dilleyþ @TheRealHublife · 1h1 hour ago
I’m always shocked to hear @realDonaldTrump supporters try and argue with me about whether or not POTUS is in total control.
The @FBI and @DOJ are both part of the Executuve Branch. The President runs BOTH.
The President has effectively convinced America that he doesn’t.
https://twitter.com/TheRealHublife/status/1028331813448572928
Great thread and sums up my feelings as well. ;)
President Trump is right.I really dont know what is the purpose of Jeff Sessions, he should have stayed in Alabama, he does NOTHING..if he was doing his JOB Hillary Clinton would be in prison right now along with Obama’s goons who orchestrated this phony Russian collusion bunch of nonsense
One of this morning's tweets warns the FBI not to destroy McCabe's text messages because he (POTUS) is about to get involved. That I think is a more significant tweet than this particular one we are discussing.
For the anti-Sessions crowd, I can only say that Trump would have fired him if he was truly unhappy with his performance. And when has Trump EVER been afraid to fire somebody? To be anti Sessions is to insinuate that Trump is incompetent and/or being cowed by others.
So why is Trump bashing Sessions then? It's obvious to me. Trump needs to put a lot of distance between himself and Sessions if there are going to be significant indictments of the Clinton and/or Obama crowd. It cannot be perceived that Trump is conspiring with Sessions to take down his political enemies. Trump needs to be just as surprised as the rest of us.
Nellie Oleason LOL
Republicans in the Senate have said that they will move to impeach Trump if he moves on Sessions. What’s he supposed to do!? Get run out of Washington D.C. over this?
I think those are boxes of pop corn.
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