Until there’s bullet ridden dead babies on the White House lawn, with Trump & Co. found holding smoking guns, everybody should settle down. The mechanisms of justice are going to default to giving everyone a pass.
Maybe he just forgot about all those meetings with the Russian Ambassador. After all, he was a long time United States Senator, how good a memory is required for that job?
Pardons for everybody, and the payments for them collected later.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Granny Sessions!
Is that an oblique reference to John McCain?
Ask John McCain.
Woa…what’s with all the negative wave on the glorious Friday morning?
(Psst…it’s raining)
Well, fuck. Go ahead and kill my buzz from yesterday’s hearing.
Ouch. That was really painful to watch.
Oh, hell… ooops, I meant Oh, JAIL!
If you have followed Seth Abramson on Twitter you have known about this Sessons-Kislyac meeting since March. I don’t see why this meeting is such a surprise to the main stream media now.
Presidents don’t get charged with crimes. Impeachment is the only avenue for removal, that or the 25th Amendment. Last I checked Trump owns Congress, so that leaves out the former remedy. And his Cabinet is not invoking the 25th, so shit can that fix. Ergo, we’re stuck with him.
Everyone is dreaming about Trump doing a glum resignation walk to the helicopter on the White House lawn. While you’re laying plans for Trump’s departure tell us where you’re taking Jennifer Lawrence or Ryan Gosling on that date you’ve planned.
Hell, this is nothing; it’s just some sort of crazy rich-kid-style initiation rite, like a hazing. Obviously you have to have secret dealings with Russians and cover it up in a way that technically is a felony to be accepted as part of the group. It’s a commitment-demonstrating, trust-building kind of a thing. Most elite groups have some sort of ritual like this.
Who cares about a possible third meeting? After committing perjury in his Senate testimony and on his SF-68 security clearance form, recusing himself from the Russia investigation is not enough. He should recuse himself fro being Attorney General permanently (i.e., resign). Then it can be decided whether he should be prosecuted or not.
Trump went through it in New York. Any rise to the top in real estate and construction requires you bankrupt, chisel, rob and ruin a few dozen Mom & Pop suppliers to prove your mettle.
I don’t see any way he can refuse to answer to this question in open session, do you?
Will he perjure himself again?
Hard choice.
You really need to check your snark meter. I know all of that well. The very best we can hope for is that he keeps shooting himself in the dick, his and Congress’s approval inches downward, the Republican Congress is unable to do much damage, and that we can–with a ton of luck–at least narrow the Republicans hold on Congress in the midterms. Of course we’re stuck with him.
Now I want to go out and slap the nearest Trump supporter.
I’m tempted to fly the US flag upside down. If anyone asks, we are under distress. Russia has taken over.
Read in the Star Tribune yesterday Jesse Ventura signed a two year contract with Putin’s RT.
He was also at the RT dinner in December of 2015 with Flynn and Stein. He sat at different table. His fellow SEALs ought to burn the sellout in effigy.
Next up, the Trump administration will try to get RT carried on most cable channels.
This is all true but we aren’t dreaming of the ‘glum walk’. Since the House won’t do anything about impeachment (although they have more ‘there’ than it took for Clinton) maybe with all this ‘bad news’ we can push him over the edge. Lighten up. Yesterday was a GOOD day and it was only the beginning.
From what I have seen, it appears that the only person in the entire cabinet who isn’t in hock to the Russians is Ben Carson, and it isn’t from lack of trying.