Apparently the Republicans will put Russia before country aswell.
If this Russian-lover in the White House doesn’t have anything to hide, why onn’t his SUCK-UP Republicans answer questions.
Put the Trump before country is UNAMERIAN.
I want a hones President NOT A LIAR AND CROOK.
BTW, the TRUMP family they WRE not elected to any position…
SHUT-UP I’WONKA.
The idea of a politician feeling indignant about his “personal honor” I find to be insulting/amusing and downright crazy. It’s deep in the political DNA of politicians to be liars. To rise to the top of the profession requires casting aside ones ethics and honor.
Honor indeed. If Sessions were an honorable man he would resign and do a tell all of his time near trump.
Trump is playing for time, thinking something or someone will bail him out. Maybe he can create a distraction, maybe a distraction will arise, maybe, maybe, maybe. The more they can delay and obfuscate and the more they can get the GOP Congress to prove they WON’T DO ANYTHING, the farther they can kick the can down the road.
The GOP is immoral, reckless and feckless. McCain made Sessions look bad, but that’s the extent of his mavericky-ness. He’s old and he’s tired and he’s probably compromised in some way himself, and he’s not going to stand up for the country. When push comes to shove, he’s going to go home and take a nap.
Borowitz:
"Man Ravaged by Amnesia Somehow Able to Hold Down Demanding Legal Job"
After this shitshow today, it’s hard to understand how Sessions keeps his job. Not only is he a liar (did anyone hear when a senator ran down a list of people close to Trump, asking if he knew if they had any contact with Russians, and he repeatedly said, “I don’t” or “I don’t recall”?), but he sounded completely muddled and incompetent.
Here’s my poorly animated take on the Sessions testimony: https://youtu.be/MHeY-EPSERE
Attorney General Foghorn Leghorn
Mealy-mouthed perjuror
Cross-exam is an artform unto itself and most of them weren’t litigators I think. It’s harder than one might think to script one, let alone go with the flow and nail someone when it all flies off script. Sessions squirreliness was to be expected but took some weird turns, especially his inverse assertion of executive privilege. Plus this is all in real time, new…not the typical couple years of trial prep.
"I mean, what is this?”
KARMA
I must interject, Suuh, if ah may, that he is the finest hillbilly racist Alfred E. Newman motherfucker in shoe leather, and a distinguished motherfucker of the old south, ah reckon. The namesake of Jefferson Davis has done the neo-confederacy proud.
I’m afraid that with the Russpublicans controlling the senate, there will be no subpoenas.
Jeff Sessions is a man who only leaks when and where his president tells him to…
“I do not recall.”
What struck me was a flashback from a Mafia deposition:
“Did you shoot Louie Two-Tunes in the head and dump his body in the East River?”
“I do not recall.”
If Trump feels really badly threatened he will simply start a war. We all know that his popularity would soar as a result, and all hearings like this one would immediately cease. GWBush understood that, so he invaded Iraq. Trump might decide to invade Iran.
Of course he’ll keep it!
He greatly pleasedTrump, if anything, by being a useless hostile witness!
Attorney General Jeff Sessions made clear that he was upset that allegations that he knew of collusion between Trump campaign officials and Russian operatives during the election were impugning his “honor.”
Who is alleging that Sessions knew of collusion? The Straw Man perhaps? We just want to know what happened and when we ask him, Sessions lies about it. So we have a right to be angry with him.
I once entertained the notion that I might just spend the time required to figure Sessions out…
But I’ve been busy deciphering some things that are immensely MORE important …
Like … Just HOW did Dumbledore know…that the bertie botts every flavor bean tasted like … earwax ? ? … —
I guess that’s kind of my point – they had to know Sessions would lie and contradict himself, yet they seemed completely unable to point out even the obvious self-contradictions, no matter how nonsensical, or even to state the obvious fact that he was continuing to lie. It’s just maddening, that’s all. I expect the GOPigs on the committee to muddle through; I expect he Dems to be sharper. As much as Sessions looked like a doddering, evasive, lying fool, I think they missed several easy opportunities to really nail him to the wall.
In trump’s prior life his relationship with subordinates always had a NDA as part of the equation… It would be interesting to hear his answer if one of the senators were to ask him if he ever signed one of these when he was part of the campaign.
So our top law official can’t answer a straight question, can’t provide proof of procedure, and in general it was a very, very good thing he never made it to a federal judgeship.
Oh and as a former US Attorney he was not aware/is not aware of the malfeasance going on right under his nose. Unless they keep that ball moving above his head, that I could understand.