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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We have been here a long time, haven't we? Almost 20 years. Good gawsh, let's not think about it. lol!
Starr has baggage from his stint at Baylor University and the student athlete scandals.
I didn’t see any Freepers quoted here, did I miss them?
Ah! I get it now. Since he already knows the outcome because there is no "there" there, then he can choose the magnanimous route and recuse himself, knowing there will not be an investigation anyway. Right? Very smart. Thanks!
The last 2 years (almost) of Donald Trump and Company outsmarting these arrogant politicians at their own game has been the best political experience of my lifetime. It's like watching Pablo Picasso work some magic. :-)
I meant for my last reply to go to both of you.
And I think that both of you are right; I’m not seeing those interpretations as mutually exclusive, actually.
Well, we’re like fine wine. Lol.
I see that I also forgot to copy/paste part of AC’s interpretation, which would make my reply make sense. LOL. I give up.
But on another note: Have you ever seen this posted or discussed here at FR about how Podesta took $170K from a Russian bank last year? Someone posted on Twitter and it has a graphic showing the bank transactions with Podesta Group.
Verified account @davidsirota
Vlad Putin’s bank put a top Clinton fundraiser’s lobbying firm on its payroll in the middle of the 2016 election.
https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/837757067389730816
One of the comments says that Podesta “transferred the shares to his kids to hide #conflictofinterest @wikileaks has the emails”
If we can’t get him on raping and torturing little kids, Sessions should have his hands full with all the pay2play material out there. Shades of Al Capone—> Taxes —> Prison for life!
Fine wine. I’ll go with that!
The question is WHY obama had the Oval Office renovated after the election.
In MHO it is definitely possible that obama had the Oval Office wired with bugs.
Another question to be answered is WHY obama installed an entire new computer and phone system in the WH sometime last year.?
I wish I could.
Going in for a knee replacement soon and the Dr. said no alcohol or nicotine .
Having a tough time was down to only 3 cigarettes but can not seem to give it up.
These days are hard on the stress level.
I’m sure that entire building is full of bugs, top to bottom. Can you imagine?
In fact, I think Trump should move to Camp David or MAL or his hotel down the street, myself. And while he’s away, he should have some trusted spooks sweep the entire WH, all the way down to the plumbing, behind the drywall, inside the vents... the entire place, inch by inch!
As for the electronics, he needs to first write an EO or get Congress to pass a law saying that an outgoing President may not spend one dime on new electronic equipment because that will be up to the incoming President. Then he needs to strip every single wireless piece of equipment out, all the way down to wireless doorbells, which can hold tiny rootkits that can later be activated remotely. If he doesn’t gut the building like that of all wireless equipment, the malware will be back. It would cost millions, but it must be done.
There’s a REASON our imposter ex-president moved 2 blocks away. I wouldn’t even doubt if he was renting space on a Chinese or Russian satellite to “keep in touch” with our WH!
I think Obama actually did order it,or at least request the FISA court to do it. But on what grounds?
Spot on
Good luck on the knee replacement. I’ll keep you in my prayers. And at least it’s only 3/day, huh? As an ex-smoker (a long time ago), that craving never fully goes away. But once you get down to 0/day, just link it in your mind with something really unpleasant and it’s easier. To this day, that first whiff I smell triggers a small craving, then within a second or two, it reminds me of something so unpleasant i don’t even want to mention it here. lol!
There’s no evidence here. This is hearsay based on unnamed sources carried by fake newsers who carry Democrat water.
We need to blast them with their own words.
Me too. I don’t know what happened. I think Trump was convinced it was bad to do but I dont know who told him.
Sessions seems like a good guy but not nearly someone who will grab the throat and hold on.
It does not help when my husband still smokes.
I want it, so give it to me? Who knows.
Thank YOU!
In other words, it’s FAKE NEWS until proven otherwise!
No where is it reported that Sessions was wire tapped.
His two meetings with Russian and ambassador were open record and during the time in question, during the campaign calendar. Sessions meant with the ambassador in his own darned office on Capitol Hill, with two AIDS present and the meeting was scheduled and logged.
The second meeting was an open record, in Cleveland, during the convention, but not *at* the convention. It was at a Heritage sponsored event, in public, easy access for cameras,TV, and action.
That’s it. No wires involved.
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