Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided to remove himself from participating in any investigations related to President #DonaldTrump’s campaign due to a possible conflict of interest. Apparently, he had met with Russian ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak twice last year and never mentioned it when he said he “knew of no contacts between Trump surrogates and Russians” during his confirmation hearings in January.
Sessions said that his meetings with Kislyak were allegedly coordinated after consulting senior officials at the Justice Department. However, given the speculation surrounding the Trump administration’s strange relationship with Russia, his behavior immediately became suspect and Democrats demanded that he resign.
Today, Sessions vehemently denied speaking to Kislyak, or any Russian officials for that matter, about the recent presidential campaign. He also said that he didn’t “intend to deceive the Senate” (read *lie to the senate) about having meetings with Russian officials.
“Last night when I read the revelations … and his decision to mislead Congress without those contacts, I felt a knot in the pit of my stomach,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters. “The information reported last night makes it clear, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Attorney General Sessions cannot possibly lead an investigation … with these revelations, he may very well become the subject of it.” Why is this presidency becoming a real life episode of Scandal?!
Via the New York Times:
“Mr. Trump said that he ‘wasn’t aware’ that Mr. Sessions had spoken to the ambassador, but that he believed the attorney general had testified truthfully to the Senate during his confirmation hearing.
‘I think he probably did,’ Mr. Trump told reporters. Asked whether Mr. Sessions should recuse himself in the Russia investigations, the president said, “I don’t think so.”’
We need answers!! #IsYallCrooksOrIsYallFrauds?
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Source: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/us/politics/jeff-sessions-russia-trump-investigation-democrats.html, http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/01/politics/jeff-sessions-russian-ambassador-meetings/index.html
