Posted on 03/04/2017 12:56:47 PM PST by SkyPilot
Before heading off to his so-called "winter White House" in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, President Donald Trump summoned some of his senior staff to the Oval Office and went "ballistic," senior White House sources told ABC News.
The president erupted with anger over the latest slew of news reports connecting Russia with the new administration -- specifically the abrupt decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.
Sources said the president felt Sessions' recusal was unnecessary and only served to embolden Trump's political opponents. The attorney general made his announcement Thursday just as Trump returned to Washington from a trip to the U.S.S. Gerald Ford in Virginia for a speech about his agenda as president.
Hours earlier, aboard the ship, the president had told reporters that he had "total" confidence in Sessions and saw no reason why the attorney general should recuse himself.
“We should have had a good week. We should have had a good weekend. But once again, back to Russia," a senior White House official said, expressing the frustration simmering in the West Wing following the news earlier in the week that Sessions failed to disclose during his confirmation process that he had met with the Russian ambassador twice during the election campaign. Sessions at the time was a senator on the Armed Services Committee and was also helping the Trump campaign.
Among those gathered in the Oval Office on Friday: Chief of staff Reince Priebus, chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, White House Counsel Don McGahn, press secretary Sean Spicer, newly-hired Communications Director Mike Dubke, along with Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump, the sources said.
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Yeah WTF?!??!
I KNOW, like I said, that Christie and Rudy aren’t real conservatives, but they would have told Franken to go ### his mother!!
And NEVER would have recused themselves.
I REALLY RESPECT Southern integrity and morality, but the only southerners in congress who don’t have those traits are on the dem side or are traitors on our side.
There’s many Southern FReepers who would eat the dems alive. Some of you should be voted in!!!
FIGHT DIRTY AND WIN!!
WTF is wrong with Sessions?!!!
Rudy should have been AG.
May be but it has come up on FOX every half hour.
Did you ever see Lynch or Holder recuse themselves from any “investigation” of the Obama Admin. or even the DOJ? No.
I should have noted most of us concern trolls are ardent Trump supporters. We desire to protect him from those that say they love him.
>>It was a complete and utter disaster and unnecessary to boot.
If the ONLY thing you have, to combat this mess, is a belief that GOD is going to step in, you’re in big trouble.
Yes, I believe in God; but he doesn’t do much to stop horrible things; just look at WWI, WWII, etc. in the 20th century.
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Spot on. You took the words right out of my mouth!
I said these SAME words the moment I heard Sessions capitulate. He is an elderly honorable man, but I sincerely doubt whether he has ever read the Art of War, or has the slightest clue how to WIN against these communist revolutionaries.
I also now no longer hold any hope of him having the cojones to move forward pursuing justice re: Clintons & their Foundation, or any subversive, seditious activities. Perhaps he really does need to be replaced with a real warrior.
Pres. Trump SHOULD be furious. Sessions has no reason to recuse himself from anything.
We appear to be on the same page.
Before a case is even pending? Don't think so.
I so much wanted Rudy for AG...
That FISA request mentioned in the CNN story did —not— get approved. It was back in June ‘16.
What -did- get approved was a request to ‘look’ at a bank; that was October.
0’s minions went ahead and tapped President Trump’s phones anyway, WITHOUT PERMISSION.
1) Off-the-record meeting with Pinch and Bezos
2) Frog-march Pinch and Bezos to awaiting patrol car
That's it.
Right is right and wrong is wrong. If any party to any court action or investigation has a vested interest they should recuse themselves.
Holder used his office for politics and it was wrong. Sessions will hopefully restore the rule of law in the agency that enforces the law. He really had no choice and I say that as a person who believes he will be a tremendous AG.
One of the biggest hurdles that Sessions must overcome is to depoliticize DOJ. You don’t do that by running a political investigation on your boss. The rats knew this and they played the advantage and immediately went from calls for him to recuse himself to calls for his resignation. The optics sucked for Trump and Sessions, but in the end he would have no choice. His mistake was to think this would end the controversy when the bloodsuckers on the left only saw blood in the water.
If the Turtle was on our side he would recess so Trump could appoint everyone he wants, or at least threaten to.
Really?
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