Correct legal decision. If the accusation is that Trump supporters or surrogates met with Russian officials during the campaign to help Russia interfere in the election, and Sessions was a Trump surrogate who at least has questions to answer regarding his meetings with the Russian ambassador, he shouldnât be overseeing such an investigation.
No shit, Sherlock.
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What a magnificent Presidency this has been so far.
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Democrat Claire McCaskill, calling for Sessions to resign this AM tweeted âIve been on the armed services committee for 10 years. No call or meeting with Russian ambassador. Everâ
Democrat Claire McCaskill, tweeting in 2013: âOff to meet with Russian ambassadorâ - later photographed sitting at a table with him⌠and from 2015, âToday calls with British, Russian and German ambassadorsâ.
What a cunning stunt. Investigation needed immediately for contacts between Democrats and Russian officials.
Wilbur Ross could be the next TĐŻump cabinet member to be in trouble for his ties to Russia.
He was vice chairman of a Cypriot bank which launders money for Russian oligarchs, and which was effectively controlled by Putin associates, and had Josef Ackermann, former CEO of Trumpâs bank Deutsche Bank, as its chairman.
And if that happens, TĐŻump will surely be dragged into it.
David Remnickâs latest article for the New Yorker states:
âSome officials believe that one reason the Russians compiled information on TĐŻump during his 2013 trip was that he was meeting with Russian oligarchs who might be stashing money abroadâa sign of disloyalty, in Putinâs eyes.â
In Rossâs bank, no doubt.
Rachel Maddowâs piece here is well worth watching.
Sessions is forced to recuse himself from the Russia investigation a few hours after you said his misleading of Congress was a ânon-storyâ. He may yet have to resign.
But wait, look over there! The real story is a tweet by some Democrat senator nobody outside of Missouri, never mind in Ireland, has ever heard of!
Sweep, sweep.
Your carpet must be half-way to the ceiling.
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Who could guess what the purpose of publishing a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants (all immigrants, not just illegal immigrants) could be?
An attempt to brainwash people into thinking there is an epidemic of crimes committed by immigrants, thus leading to vilification of them, resulting in xenophobia and racial hatred against them, perhaps?
Thus creating the climate for mass deportations.
Even though immigrants commit less crime than US citizens?
Bernie Sanders brilliantly deconstructed Trumpâs speech from the other night.
I particularly liked the bit about Trump talking about promoting âclean waterâ, when that day heâd signed an executive order gutting Obamaâs Clean Water Rules.
#backtrack
Time for a break?
So, just because itâs called the âClean Water Ruleâ (singular), you automatically assume that Trump issuing an Executive Order for itâs review is a bad thing. Has your brain has been kidnapped by the Democrats? Are you suffering from a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome? Or are you just an idiot? Either way, you are so far out of your depth here itâs not even funny any more.
The 75 page Clean Water Rule document, with 3 columns per page, amounts to fuck all more than another one of Obamaâs attempts at grabbing more power for Washington whilst taking a dump on the rights of the American people. Even a fleeting glance at the submissions received during the public comments period will put you in no uncertain terms as to how poorly the Rule was received:
To be clear, Trump has issued an Executive Order directing the EPA and the Army for Civil Works to review the Clean Water Rule (not âguttingâ it, as you so eloquently put it) and âpublish for notice and comment a proposed rule rescinding or revising the rule, as appropriate and consistent with lawâ. This is a good thing.
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@anon7035031 has been on record many times about how he despises not just Communism, but any form of socialism.
Yet Steve Bannon, the man who is so clearly driving the agenda of âhis presidentâ, describes himself as âLeninistâ (a very far right âLeninistâ, I would have thought).
Go figure.
The Stockholm Syndrome is all yours. Given your political persuasion you probably think Stockholm Syndrome refers to a terrorist attack.
The Clean Water Rule clarifies which waterways and wetlands fall under the Clean Water Act.
It only doesnât clarify it if youâre a nut.
Funny, it just so happens that golf course owners object to it. And, guess what, Trump owns 12 golf courses in the US.
Trump has already abolished a rule stopping the dumping of mining waste into streams, so weâve already seen how serious his commitment to clean water is.
Given the content of your posts, one can only presume youâve been drinking the water from one of those dirty streams.
Tick, tock.
This is on the same topic as the Rachel Maddow programme covered on Monday:
Over the past weeks, Palmer Report has been reporting on the mysterious round-the-world gallivanting of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who spends most of his time at his home in Monaco but has a habit of flying into whatever city Donald Trump happens to be visiting at the time. And thanks to an exposed multibillion dollar money laundering scheme on the part of a bank thatâs closely tied financially to both Rybolovlev and Trump, we think we know why.
As weâve been documenting this month, whenever Donald Trump has left the White House and ventured anywhere, Dmitry Rybolovlev (aka the âRussian King of Fertilizerâ) has tended to show up in the same city. It happened during Trumpâs victory tour in Concord, North Carolina, a place Rybolovlev had no legitimate reason to be. It happened again when Trump vacationed in West Palm Beach, even though that required Rybolovlev to fly all the way in from Switzerland. That was also the time that Trump deposited reporters in a semi-submerged basement of his resort with black plastic covering the the windows.
That only leaves two possibilities. One is that Trump and Rybolovlev just happen to have a remarkably coincidental travel schedule, and that while Rybolovlev was in West Palm Beach, Trump went out of his way to make sure the press couldnât see what was going on at his resort for no real reason. The other is that Trump and Rybolovlev have been meeting up whenever Trump ventures away from the White House. The latter possibility has long been bolstered by the fact that Trump sold Rybolovlev a mansion a few years ago that neither of them lived in nor cared about, suggesting the sale was mere cover for shifting money from Russia to Trump. And that theory just got bolstered significantly, thanks to a new breakthrough.
Earlier this month we brought you the story of Deutsche Bank in Germany getting busted for laundering more than ten billion dollars out of Russia and into places like New York. This stood out because Deutsche has also loaned more than a billion dollars to Donald Trump, who just happens to be based out of New York, even at a time when the bank was struggling and Trump was viewed as a poor loan risk by every other bank out there.
It turns out Deutsche was funneling that money through Bank of Cyprus. Guess who owns a 9.9% share in Bank of Cyprus? Dmitry Rybolovlev. So we can now draw a direct line of more than a billion dollars flowing from Russia, through Rybolovlev, to Donald Trump.
We canât yet prove that the money Russia laundered through Deutsche and Cyprus was the same exact money that Deutsche then loaned to Trump. But when we find that proof, itâll be the smoking gun proving Russia has been financing Trump all along. And it explains why Dmitry Rybolovlev keeps flying halfway around the world to meet with Donald Trump whenever he escapes the White House â he appears to be the handler for Trumpâs Russian finances.
What backtrack? Why do you feel the need to enter threads, the subjects involved you know nothing about (so all threads, except slurry disposal), and show yourself up for the simpleton you are?
Where did I say Sessions should not recuse himself from any investigation of Russian and Trump campaign links? Once accused by his political opponents, he is doing the right thing and recusing himself from any such investigation, even if he is never a subject of the investigation. We donât even know at this point whether there is or will be an official investigation, as none has been announced.
Again, anyone with a rational functioning mind can see what occurred during the senate conformation hearing. If you listened to the full question from the comedian Al Franklen, rather than the last few sentences which all the MSM are playing, itâs clear what Franklen is asking about. The reports of the infamous Russian dossier (now known to be bullshit, paid for the never Trumps and the Democrats) had just came out, alleging that Trump surrogates had held frequent meetings with Russian operatives during the campaign, planning Russian interference in the election. The two meetings Sessions had with the Russian ambassador based in Washington were normal meetings that any senator in the armed services committee would have (like the fucking stupid lying cunt I referenced above). One meeting was with a group of ambassadors, the other held in his office with three of his staff present. A very odd way to go about holding a clandestine meeting to help the Russians swing the election surely?
Itâs classic Washington politics, and anyone swallowing the Democrat line here is either hopelessly biased or an utter moron. The simple explanation is Democrats are still in denial that Trump won, and will do everything they can to disrupt his administration. Itâs a non story, the only story here is that Trump and some members of the Trump campaign and now administration had business dealings with Russia. What the fuck is so unusual about global businessmen having business dealings in Russia? Itâs not illegal, all American multinationals do it.
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WROOOOONG
Sessions was the only member of the committee to meet the Russian Ambassador in 2016. The problem wasnât with the fact that he met him. It was that he lied about it.
Trumpâs good olâ boys just keep lying.
Al Franken. Who wrote the book âLies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Themâ.
Youâre still in denial about this, I see.
Youâre an expert on the clean water act and the machinations of it in the US and the issues it causes farmers and property owners there? You know this issue better than citizens there who have to adhere to it or the EPA who are to review it?
Or you just read a couple of articles on the INTERNET, try shoehorn it into your agenda and are being called out for the delusional bluffer you are.
Wonder which scenario is more likely 
its too funny 
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Enrique, in your short time here, you have already become a shining beacon of reason. Hopefully you have the patience to stick around, as the voices of lunacy have to be opposed.
As it happens, I live here in the US in a state which has a large agricultural industry, and have friends in the industry. Or were in the industry rather. EPA regulations have basically them out of business. Saving an obscure fish is more important than producing our own quality produce, regardless of the fact that the result is putting produce on the shelves that nobody knows what poisons it contains.
The lunatic thinks the opposition is from golf courses. 99% of opposition is from farmers or just ordinary people wanting to build a house on their own property. You could drive from Sacramento to Southern California passing farmland with a landmass bigger than Ireland and there arenât more than a few golf courses.
He is like the lad in the pub that wants to talk lunacy to you all night. In the pub you can walk away, unfortunately the Intermer gives a voice to these nutters. Which is more reason to respond to them, as otherwise their nonsense spreads.
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For those who may be busy and donât have time to review the lengthy exchanges between Al Franken and Jeff Simmons, hereâs a bit more detail for context
Franken, who questioned Simmons on 30 year old legal cases without the benefit of any legal education or training, opened the segment by asking why Trump doubted that the Russians were involved in hacking the DNC. For dimwits, this is called context. He then went on: âCNN has just published story, and Iâm not expecting you to know whether itâs true or not (I cleaned his rambling up quite a bit), intelligence reports (leaks) claim the president was informed of claims about links between the Trump campaign and Russia involving personal and financial matters. Claims are that continuous meetings occurred between Trump surrogates and Russian officials during the campaignâ. Sorry, left out a lot of rambling incoherent nonsense.
The question regarding contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians followed.
Anyone who canât follow the rambling picture Al Franken is painting and the sort of logic of the question he actually asked is a complete and utter moron. Admittedly itâs hard to navigate through Frankenâs mumbo jumbo, itâs on YouTube for those interested.
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What are you saying? A veteran litigator and the senior legal officer in the State couldnât follow a line of questioning?