Posted on 03/01/2017 7:36:32 PM PST by blam
Just when you thought the 'Russians-did-it' meme was fading, WaPo reporters manage to find DoJ officials who say then-Senator Jeff Sessions spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States - encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts with Moscow during his confirmation hearing to become attorney general.
At his Jan. 10 Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Sessions was asked by Sen. Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat, what he would do if he learned of any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of the 2016 campaign.
“I’m not aware of any of those activities,” he responded.
He added: “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.”
And now, as The Hill reports that according to The Washington Post report, President Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, spoke twice with Russia's ambassador to the United States while Trump was on the campaign trail.
Justice Department officials said one of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in Sessions's office. The private meeting reportedly took place during the same time intelligence officials have said Russia was interfering with the U.S. presidential election through a hacking campaign.
Officials said Sessions did not consider the conversations relevant to the lawmakers’ questions and did not remember in detail what he discussed with Kislyak.
“There was absolutely nothing misleading about his answer,” said Sarah Isgur Flores, Sessions’s spokeswoman.
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(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
This is the lie that’s gone too far to take back. The Democrats, establishment Republicans and the globalists are staking everything on proving the Russians influenced the election for Trump. This is laughable because there is absolutely no proof, but don’t worry they’ll manufacture it. Are all these people willing to provoke a war with Russia all in the name of regaining their DC power base again. Yes, they would.
To be honest, I know very little about her.
SENATOR Sessions talked to the Russians.
But not when he was on the VP ticket.
Stupid Dems are Stupid.
Screw them at the fishing trip.
I now can only imagine what was on that 18 minutes of missing tape.
The truth? We could not handle any truth at that time...
Americans were too busy celebrating their new found affirmation from SCOTUS to worship a god of convenience.
I wonder where Julie and Tricia stand politically these days, knowing what was done to their father. Of course, one would expect Caroline Kennedy to be a conservative, considering what was done to her father, but we know that did not happen.
Thanks, I hope they back him up all the way, even if it was a mistake. But I am wondering since they threw Flynn under the bus so quick, which was basically the same night the story broke, and the circumstances are similar. Hopefully that will end up being the only bone he throws them.
Here’s a reminder, about Sarah Isgur Flores (h/t Ray76).....
A Closer Look At Cruz’s Keep The Promise, Carly Fiorina, and Sarah Flores (ray76)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3414540/posts
Why she is now AG Sessions spokesperson is beyond me.
Maybe he should have disclosed the conversations, but I’m certainly not going to petition him to resign, the way Elijah Cummings, Maryland’s most useless Congressman, is doing.
The Hill article about Cummings, by the way, read like satire. Nancy Balogney is calling for him to step down, too.
Sessions bump for later....
Well did he lie to Congress or what? All this stuff is disturbing, and I hate the slimy Republicans who are jumping on board. Issa, McCain, and Graham are showing their true colors... black with white stripe down the back.
WaPo reporters manage to find DoJ officials who say then-Senator Jeff Sessions spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States ....................... When WAPO publishes anything without naming names as a source, you must take it as the God’s honest truth. WAPO would never lie about anything involving the Republican party. s/ If I know WAPO, what ever Sessions said to the Russian Ambassador was probably normal chat and not anything that would imply any kind of conspiracy. LOL, that idiot,Frankel would take a normal greeting between them as high treason just like the Wapo reporters in their “unbiased” news reporting’.
It’s time for the president to take the gloves off and expose all these phony globalists and their attempt to blame Russia for Hillary’s loss. This is a white lie that is now out of control.
Another #WaPoWhopper
Sessions was NOT part of the trump 2016 campaign so he answered truthfully. He was a Senator who happened to support Trump which is his right.
Another article stated that he talked to representatives of many foreign governments as part of his committee assignments.
This is more WaPo Fake News mudslinging!
Time for a little declassifying sunshine, or some such thing.
Mr. niteowl77
No, this crapstorm can’t be ignored, it must be fought with scorched earth tactics. So you MSM scum and Demoncraps and RINOs want to fight? We will teach you lessons you’ll never forget.
Another #WaPoWhopper
~Freeper formerly known as bushwon ;)
Guys, this is the start of the CIA coup. There will likely be fake CIA intel involved and they will try to remove Trump. The GOPe leadership would be much happier with Pence and the Dems want blood. Everyone is soon going to have to make a choice between giving the US government over to the deep state and live as slaves in our own nation or support Trump when he has to take desperate action to protect this country.
Be ready.
I had not realized she was potentially involved in that.
Strange...
The $500k to begin with was interesting. Why give that much money to another candidate?
Bottom line is that Sessions met as a rep of Armed Services Committee, not as a rep of Trump campaign.
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