Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

Wouldn't that suggest we should see a tweet any minute now?

@tinyrevolution
I don't think Sessions actually was concealing anything, it's just that it often doesn't even occur to powerful people to follow the rules

LOL, now deleted but what a brief life:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C57N98uWYAAD9m0.jpg

i still think that jeff sessions is the worst part of this cabinet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/02/28/jeff-sessions-dismisses-doj-reports-on-police-abuse-without-bothering-to-read-them/

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, March 1, 2017 5:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

worst because he knows what he's doing

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, March 1, 2017 5:21 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol only a few hours before this broke! dreams come true people

Have to say i love the look of this guy https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_480w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/03/21/Others/Images/2014-03-21/AP6626441900211395433511.jpg?uuid=6YU-lLE2EeO4s0Sx0c1MHw

do I get a "YOU'VE BEEN FREDDIE-B'D" t-shirt now

lol xp

@dick_nixon
A lie requires intention. Sessions should have left it that he was not aware. But then he came out and said he had no contact with Russia.

Legally it muddies the water somewhat but that is what a bad lawyer Sessions is.

Manolo Sanchez‏
@NixonValet
@dick_nixon Atty General Sessions is on line 4 sir. It sounds like he's been drinking.

do I get a "YOU'VE BEEN FREDDIE-B'D" t-shirt now

It says "you've been framboozled" but yes

"Jeff Sessions" should resign for not being a guy who worked on a Steely Dan album or something

I've no specific beef with Kislyak but that photo reminds me a little bit of

https://stevehickey.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/john-banner.jpg

Paul Ryan calls to recuse Sessions now "if he is subject of probe"

http://✧✧✧.c✧✧.com/2017/03/02/politics/trump-watch-live-coverage-week-6?lf-content=186380851:lb-post-39efcfa9fd5c90f599162c0aa89dc✧✧✧@livef✧✧✧.c✧✧&hubRefSrc=permalink

wtf

it says Lindsey Graham is meeting with Comey today

Everyone's learned a new word, I see.

"This is your NPR morning briefing. Jeff Sessions, after successfully warding off criticism for being a terrible racist and lying under oath about contact with Russian officials, resigned this morning after new revelations that he failed to capture the transcendent smoothness of the horn section on take 27 of Steely Dan's "Deacon Blues" - a legendary take that could not be added to the mix due to several technical errors by Sessions, senior administration officials say."

the jeff skunk sessions sessions

during our intense reading session last night I kept misreading the intent of this article title as (http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/01/opinions/trump-promises-face-buzzsaw-of-reality-axelrod/index.html) as Trump Promises "Face Buzzsaw" of Reality.

and now I'm sad there will be no face buzzsaw

how likely is it that sessions will be forced to resign? i didn't think flynn was going to be forced out but was, and sessions has more allies than flynn did

it's easier when it's the first guy forced out and it's a dude as kooky as Flynn.

ousting a just confirmed Attorney General right after that, they'll fight harder to prevent it even if the situations are similar

I fully support Face Buzzsaw as our new atty genl

I dont see resignation happening unless McConnell/GOP Senators turns on him

sooner or later it becomes hard to stay in an executive position if your entire org thinks you might be guilty of treason

I mean, I would sort of have to think.

The White House is dismissing calls for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“There’s nothing to recuse himself,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in an interview with Fox News that aired late Thursday morning.

“He was 100 percent straight with the committee and I think that people (who) are choosing to play partisan politics with this should be ashamed of themselves," he added.

lol

yea they don't want to give up sessions

xxxpost It's all relative. Half of the federal government would've already been sent to the gallows in a different era but nowadays colluding with a hostile foreign government is just a thing people do, y'know?

It makes sense that Spicer would say those things with that level of vociferousness. When you've put all of your chips on the hand that's holding five aces, why, it's an absolute outrage that anyone would even suggest that anyone's cheating and of course you can't look at my cards! For shaaaaame!

"The message that Sessions should not recuse himself from the investigation, according to Spicer, comes straight from President Trump," Fox correspondent John Roberts added.

I should start making a point of watching his press conferences so I can see the moment when reality washes over him and he resigns in mid-sentence.

^more suggestion that there's really something there. Trump needs Sessions to thwart any investigation

xpost

They can't give up Sessions because he's the only one in the White House who can read and write.

lol this Cillizza headline Jeff Sessions is in deep trouble. Bigly.

Lol partisan politics. Most of the calls to recuse are from Republicans. We want him to resign. Get it right

the interesting thing about resignation is that it answers the question of recusal definitively. seems like a win/win

So much for new Trump.

Ryan calling for recusal and Rubio strongly hinting at at least that on NPR this morning

Ryan also defended him tho

"treason" still makes me lol. oh u CIA Dems

Interior Secy rode horse to work:

https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/837306196415688704

i swear 50% of politicians are cosplay dorks

It's probably so he can write off his stable fees as a business expense.

sooner or later it becomes hard to stay in an executive position if your entire org thinks you might be guilty of treason

what if they do but won't say it publicly

so apparently Ryan did not call for recusal in Trump-Russia DoJ investigation. He only said that recusal is required if Sessions himself is the subject of investigation

Well, per WSJ, Sessions is the subject of investigation.

tbf to ryan he probably didn't have time to read all 5 or so of the big headlines last night, he's busy obfuscating a healthcare swindle after all

McCarthy walking back his comments too - tho tbh I expect them to cave on this fairly soon

long series of tweets this morning from David Frum (I've put them in paragraph form)

“Sessions story today is a sinister confirmation of central thesis of my autocracy article. Donald Trump is a uniquely dangerous president because he harbors so many guilty secrets (or maybe one big guilty secret). In order to protect himself, Trump must attack American norms and institutions - otherwise he faces fathomless legal risk. In turn, in order to protect their legally vulnerable leader, Republicans in Congress must join the attack on norms & institutions. Otherwise, they put at risk party hopes for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to remake US government in ways not very popular with voters.

American institutions are built to withstand an attack from the president alone. But … they are not so well-built as to withstand an attack from a conscienceless president enabled by a hyper-partisan Congress. The peculiar grim irony in this case is that somewhere near the center of Trump’s story is the murky secret of Trump’s Russia connection. Meaning that Trump is rendering his party also complicit in what could well prove … the biggest espionage scandal since the Rosenberg group stole the secret of the atomic bomb. And possibly even bigger. We won’t know if we don’t look.

Despite patriotic statements from individual GOPers, as of now it seems that Speaker Ryan & Leader McConnell agree: no looking. So many in DC serenely promise that “checks and balances” will save us. But right now: there is no check and no balance. Only brave individuals in national security roles sharing truth with news organizations. But those individuals can be found & silenced. What then? We take it too much for granted that the president must lose this struggle. The “oh he’s normal now” relief of so many to Trump’s Feb 28 speech revealed how ready DC is to succumb to dealmaking as usual.

As DC goes numb, citizen apathy accumulates …GOP members of Congress decide they have more to fear from enforcing law against the president than from ignoring law with the president. And those of us who care disappear down rabbit holes debating whether Sessions’ false testimony amounts to perjury or not. Meanwhile job market strong, stock market is up, immigration enforcement is popular.

I’m not counseling despair here. I don’t feel despair. Only: nobody else will save the country if you don’t act yourself.”