Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...e613afeb09f_story.html?utm_term=.c0694548a23c

Well isn't this an interesting turn of events! Sessions is toast.

But beyond that, we now have two high-ranking officials in the Trump administration that have lied about having contact with the Russians during the campaign.

 

See the 50 seconds to 1:10 segment: "I did not have communications with the Russians"

[video=youtube;eDrB456zDP4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDrB456zDP4[/video]

 

Adds up to nothing.

He was asked 2 questions: "Did anyone in the Trump campaign have contact with the Russians?" He said he was unaware if anyone did. Sessions was not part of the Trump campaign, so that is nothing.

He also was asked if he spoke to anyone with the Russian government about the election. He answered "no." Is there any evident he spoke to the Russian ambassador about the election? No. So nothing there either.

Democratic politicians continue with the ultra-radical 1950s rightwing McCarthyism claim that it is a criminal offense for anyone to talk to Russians - an absurdity. We have a Russian family who travels here 2 or 3 times a year to a house they own nearby. OMG! We have spoken to them.

Nothing will come from this, just the same old "THE RUSSIANS ARE EVERYWHERE!" rantings by desperate Democrat talking heads and their little minions.

 

No, he's not toast.

From the link:

“There was absolutely nothing misleading about his answer,” said Sarah Isgur Flores, Sessions’s spokeswoman.

In January, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) asked Sessions for answers to written questions. “Several of the President-elect’s nominees or senior advisers have Russian ties. Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?” Leahy wrote.


Sessions responded with one word: “No.”

Justice officials said Sessions met with Kislyak on Sept. 8 in his capacity as a member of the armed services panel rather than in his role as a Trump campaign surrogate.

“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,” Flores said.

She added that Sessions last year had more than 25 conversations with foreign ambassadors as a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, including the British, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Indian, Chinese, Canadian, Australian and German ambassadors, in addition to Kislyak."

Boldface mine.

I am constantly surprised how sloppy the thinking is with partisan attackers that want to shoot someone down.

This bs needs to stop. It is not being done innocently...or, if it is, most in our media are idiots.

 

He did not lie.

“There was absolutely nothing misleading about his answer,” said Sarah Isgur Flores, Sessions’s spokeswoman.

In January, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) asked Sessions for answers to written questions. “Several of the President-elect’s nominees or senior advisers have Russian ties. Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?” Leahy wrote.


Sessions responded with one word: “No.”

Justice officials said Sessions met with Kislyak on Sept. 8 in his capacity as a member of the armed services panel rather than in his role as a Trump campaign surrogate.

“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,” Flores said.

She added that Sessions last year had more than 25 conversations with foreign ambassadors as a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, including the British, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Indian, Chinese, Canadian, Australian and German ambassadors, in addition to Kislyak."

 

If true, the whole rotten works has to go, sessions, bannon, preibus, Kelly Ann Conway, and the big guy himself Trumpizdah.

 

Is he the same Senator Jeff Sessions who endorsed Trump to run for the Presidency during the 2016 Presidential election campaign?

 

It is true. He met with the Russian Ambassador who was also the head of the Russian espionage unit - the main spy recruiter - at an official GOP function.

He then denied meeting any Russians in the Congressional hearings [Al Franken].

Now he says he never met with Russians to discuss the campaign.

Al Franken, you really are good enough, smart enough, and doggonit! People really do like you!

 

Flynn was one domino to fall, now you see the steady drip, drip, drip, before it becomes a trickle then a flood. Ive seen that sly smile on VP Pence face, maybe he's sizing up the chair Trump is in and envisions he'd look good sitting in it...if Trump is impeached that is.

 

Wow - Lying to Congress at a confirmation hearing. Fits right in with this Administration, doesn't he? Sounds to me like he should resign immediately.

 

He didn't tell any lie. He was not part of the Trump campaign and nothing shows he talked about the 2016 election.

 

I suppose you view this as an alternate truth: "I did not have communications with the Russians"

 

Here is the actual quote of the exchange, from Breitbart (and I know it's correct because I've seen the video itself):

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ke-news-washington-post-misquote-used-target/

It is amazing how much Breitbart spins what I just posted to mean anything except what I'm about to say... This exchange doesn't specify only communications about the election and Sessions is not disputing that he was a surrogate of the Trump campaign. Sessions response also does not specify what kind of communications with the Russian government he is claiming he did not have. A normal reading of it would imply he is stating he did not talk to the Russians at all, which we know to be false. But he could probably get out of a perjury charge by claiming he meant something more specific to the context of the question even if he did not actually say so. A normal person being honest and not hiding anything could easily have specified, "No I didn't talk to the Russian government about the election," knowing full well he talked to them about unrelated matters.

 

Is anyone claiming anything nefarious went on?

 

He's replying to the question asked, and the specific communication referred to in the question he was asked.

That's basic analysis 101.

 

Well let's start with reading comprehension.
The question was: "...and if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?" Which itself does not specify what kind of communication. In this context, communication 101 would suggest Sessions should have been specific. Whether there's anything nefarious going on or not, it was a stupid response by Sessions given that it is clear he did have some form of communication with them. At best, he has a poor memory.

 

What official affiliation did he have with the Trump campaign?

 

In his answer to the question, he admitted to being a surrogate and proceeded to say he had no communication with Russia. So not only did he admit to being part of the campaign, but he made an independent statement that he had no communication with Russia.

 

Nah. the democrats are trying to imply that any communications with Russia are nefarious. The FBI and intelligence agencies know of the contacts and intercepted the communications and know the content. If they had something nefarious, you know they would have leaked that by now.

 

The Soros/Obama/Clinton consortium and their neo con ideologues are desperate... They might end up in jail considering the crimes they committed.

 

It seems the muscovites are getting a bit frantic over this! I actually don't believe the investigations will uncover much but ambiguity, denial, forgetfulness, and obfuscation. As the saying goes"you cant handle the truth" and its true here! The GOP simply cant handle the truth that their minority-elect President Trumpizdah and his incestuous wormpile of a cabinet are cozy with russkis! The supporters of GOP and minority elect trumpizdah cant handle the truth that the muscovites manipulated their vote via the media that they so religiously trust.
If it gets to a point that the russkis interference cant be denied even by GOP suppoerters...OH OH!! The screaming rage of a nation that it realizes it been f***ed with will be epic...and frightening. The Russians should never have meddled!...

 

One of the "clandestine meetings" was a speech Sessions gave in front of 100 ambassadors.

What a joke.

 

You have an evidence that he did have communications by anyone with the Trump campaign with anyone with the Russian government? So far, no one has offered any.

Oh, that's right, some of you Democrats are pretending he was answering a question never asked. He was never asked if he communicated with any with the Russian government. He was asked about "evidence" that people with the Trump campaign had. He replied that he had no such evidence.

 

That is not a NORMAL reading at all and there is true desperation in your message. He had no obligation to deny anything and he was not a member of the Trump campaign. A NORMAL reading in the context of the question is simple: What IF he had evidence of communications between the Trump campaign and anyone with the Russian government. He replied he had no such evidence. Simple enough to understand.

Just because Democrats want to make a question he was never asked, ie "Did YOU make any communication yourself with anyone with the Russian government?" does not mean he was thus answering the question never asked.

EVERY attorney advises clients to listen very carefully to questions when under oath and ONLY answer in the narrow range of the actual question. Do NOT speculate why the question is being asked NOR go one iota outside the ACTUAL question. He answered the ACTUAL question. Senator Franken was stupid and sloppy in his wording. If he wanted to ask if Sessions had communicated with anyone in the Russian government then that is the question he should have asked, but he didn't.

 

I'm afraid you're wrong. He admitted today, that he had talked with them. He forgot - how likely is that? Also, today, it was exposed that his son-in-law spoke with them also. Something fishy with Russia, in the Trump campaign