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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“The article is worthless. Nobody on the inside would talk to an enemy like ABC.”
Amazing, how some of the posters here buy anything that supposedly bad and said by the dark and evil side about Trump or his people.
They never support Trump nor the wrongly accused and buy the big lie, hook line and sinker.
Jim Rob came up with the correct labeling of these misguided souls, Concernted Trolls for whatever reason.
Just reported that Bannon will be at dinner tonight with the NSC team and Trump so this isnt the whole story. Apparently if he did have them stay yesterday, Bannon is coming or already there today
In other words, they weren’t fighting anyone at all.
The coup plotters must get Obama’s appointee to be acting AG so DJT is forced to fire him and we have a Saturday Night Massacre (according to the media)
I agree Deweyfrank. How does a private meeting with 2 close staff members get leaked within minutes?
It’s either lies or the white house is bugged.
That is the ethical standard of we Repubs/Conservatives. Dems have no such standard or ethics.
110/68. Geez!!!
I could learn a lot from you!
Brutal temper and no fuse at all.
Ego gets bruised way too easily. React to things without thinking, too often.
Getting too old for it.
“so called winter white house.’
Dems NEVER have to. *sigh*
Translation = we just make this crap up"
Translation = we just make this crap up"
“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.”
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Agreed. I scratch my head on why Freepers depend on God so heavily. Where was God when I prayed in 2008 and 2012 that obamatard NOT be elected? This is a human issue and we sole it FIRST before asking the Big Guy and not the other way around.
Damned right. ABC who owns the queer capital Disney. Not going to happen, not to ABC.
This description and everything in it is a desperate lie to cover Trumps 3:30 AM tweet this morning. Following his meeting “possibly” said to have been with his NSC down in Palm Beach, and or on the plane. Possibly being the operative word.
The entire placing and timing of this “story” is a template to drum up further lies on the Sunday shows. They will have a lot to talk about on Monday when the SHTF. And the Sessions recusal was well known to Trump WELL before it happened (and should point out- it was a very, very specific ‘recusal’ that was made, and does not remove the attack against the illegal wire tap and the well known path of that attack— who authorized and when). This is going to be very juicy, and with finesse.
Never forget— this is 3 days after the Congress speech— and there is a plan way ahead. Trump directing the media.
And they are lapping it up.
Who is second in command and who appointed them?
If it is news, it is fake news. Actual news doesn’t get reported.
TRUMP SAT.:
-golf
-NSC brief
-Jeff Sessions, Homeland’s John Kelly
-dinner w Wilbur Ross, Sessions, Kelly, Stephen Miller, McGahn, Bannon
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