“He was asked during the hearing about communications between Russia and the Trump campaign—not about meetings he took as a senator and a member of the Armed Services Committee,” Sessions spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores told the Washington Post Wednesday.
And that’s the point. A point a better lawyer than I would have noticed in real time rather than realizing it after the fact: he was asked, hypothetically speaking, what he as hypothetical AG Sessions would do if he found out that associates of the Trump campaign other than hypothetical AG Sessions had done a thing. And rather than answer the question he was asked, he gave a nonresponsive answer. A very special kind of nonresponsive answer. A denial that he personally, a) was actually associated with the Trump campaign and b) a denial that he personally had had any such meetings.
He told two lies he need not have told, two lies he could have avoided telling, simply by answering the question that was asked rather than answering one that had not been asked. And that, my friends, is the thing that people who are guilty, guilty, guilty do when a question hits closer to the mark than the questioner intended. That’s the kind of thing that people who who have a Big, Big Thing they’re consciously trying to conceal because they fear consequences do.
Sessions is complicit in this whole subversive conspiracy. Whether as a co-conspirator, an aider and abettor or a mere accessory after the fact I cannot tell you, but his fetid little god-bothered subconscious mind was and is deeply aware and fearful of personal jeopardy and made an appearance before the Committee to tell us so.
And one need not just take my psychoanalysis as evidence. The contention that this was just a normal foreign service committee thing for him to be having private tete a tete’s with the Russian ambassador (i.d.'d by CNN as their chief spy recruiter as well) is also a lie. An important point buried in the WaPo story was that they asked all 26 foreign affairs committee members whether they’d had any meetings with the Russian ambassador and 20 came back with a resounding “nyet,” while the other six sayeth naught. As one of them pointed out anonymously, in September, Russia was toxic. In September, a member of the foreign affairs committee, particularly a Republican, would have rather had a private meeting with the plutonium core of a nuclear bomb than with the Russian ambassador. And yet Jefferson Beauregard did and just “forgot” to tell anyone while he was busy denying that a thing that had actually happened happened in the course of answering a question he wasn’t asked.
