Discussion: Report: Trump Asked Sessions About Dropping Criminal Case Against Arpaio

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The Washington Post reported, citing three unnamed sources with knowledge of the conversation, that Sessions told Trump it would be inappropriate for him to do so.

Must be great to work for this guy.

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Is this really a surprise to anyone? After all racists have to stick together.

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I guess this is why Trump is willing to wait out the results of the Mueller investigation.

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Fun tip for journalists: Just find your old articles about Erdogan in Turkey, use “CTRL-F” to find all references to Erdogan, and replace with Trump.

Will save lots of time writing.

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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the Washington Post it was “only natural” for Trump to “have a discussion with administration lawyers about legal matters.”

It might be natural, but it sure as hell ain´t ethical or appropriate. And I suppose it´s ¨natural¨ that he would muck with the Mueller investigation as well?

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From the WaPo article: “The 71-year-old president could not stomach seeing an 85-year-old he admired as a law-and-order icon wasting away in a jail cell.”

…Good thing Trump wasn’t in charge of hunting down old Nazis, or we’d have stopped prosecuting Concentration Camp guards years ago in sympathy with their age…

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No problem. Inappropriate is Donald’s middle name.

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If we’ve learned nothing else about DT, we know that many unnatural things come naturally to him.

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All of Trump’s instincts are illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, amoral, and/or unethical. He is devoid of a soul.

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President Donald Trump asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions earlier this year whether the government could drop its criminal case against former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Washington Post reported Saturday evening.

The Washington Post reported, citing three unnamed sources with knowledge of the conversation, that Sessions told Trump it would be inappropriate for him to do so.

Trump: What’s the point of being POTUS if I can’t keep my crooked friends out of jail?

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Did she really fucking say that???

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Yeah - that quote is from the article.

You could also say the same thing about Dick Cheney.

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But the tarmac! Bill Clinton talked to the AG! Scandal!

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We’re going to need a bigger tote board if we hope to keep track of his counts of obstruction.

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More likely, had he been sentenced, Arpaio, owing to his age, would never have spent jail time and instead would have been fined and given down time at his home in Sun City, or wherever the hell he lives.

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I, for one, look forward to this 71-year-old “President” wasting away in a jail cell up to and past his 85th birthday.

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I wonder if one of the sources could be Sessions himself? He does come out looking good and it would be a bit of revenge for the verbal bullying he’s taken from Trump.

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The Washington Post reported, citing three unnamed sources with knowledge of the conversation, that Sessions told Trump it would be inappropriate for him to do so.

Does Trump have any ideas, ask others to do any things, or take any actions on his own that don’t have a fairly large dose of “inappropriate.”

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