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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I really am speculating about Sessions. But I can’t see how he was not wire tapped, too. After being set up by Obama officials at the convention.
Trump is too smart to conspire with “the Russians.”
What you have posted has been done a lot this past month!
Wouldn’t surprise me if this tidbit was “fed” to someone that Trump suspected was leaking.
That person is now caught. Oopsie!
I think that is their ultimate goal.
Well, there were “seven senior staff” members in the room, and I think his daughter and son in law can be eliminated as leakers, which leaves five. ABC names “senior White House sources”.
CNN....breaking
Agree. I said he would recuse himself. Southern senator gentleman..old school style
If true, I’m at least glad to hear that Trump was as outraged over this as I was yesterday. However, he should have had a clearer understanding between his cabinet officials that you don’t dignify a false narrative by anonymous sources in a liberal rag with a press conference to make your administration look guilty.
Obviously, Jeff Sessions should’ve known better. And I don’t see how he survives this.
Old thinking.
He believes that, when they accuse him of something:
1) They truly believe it
2) They just need the facts
Office was bugged
Sessions should have talked to Trump instead of the Obama “ethics” people. What a cluster!
If it were me who was the Attorney General I wouldn’t have talked to my underlings about this. They must have been licking their chops.
He better survive it. Taking him out will be a disaster
Sessions can talk to his attorney who can talk to the DOJ attorneys.
My sentiments exactly.
This makes Sessions come off as weak. .... and frankly, the last thing Trump needs is a weak Atty General.
This ABC News report is #FakeNews until verified by more trustworthy media sources and/or publicly verified by those White House personnel mentioned as having attended this meeting, IMO!!
Story said..among others. More may have been present
Unnamed sources.
The article is worthless. Nobody on the inside would talk to an enemy like ABC.
Sessions cannot oversee an investigation of something that involved himself. He was wire tapped, too.
I also think Sessions made a big mistake.
Remember the hilarious "John Miller" story from the 2016 election campaign. LMAO.
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