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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLooks like Jeff Sessions perjured himself.
Jeet Heer
3 hours ago
Robert Muellers investigation into Russian interference in the election has entangled the attorney general. In his sworn testimony during his confirmation hearing in January, Sessions was asked by Senator Al Franken, 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? Sessions responded: Senator Franken, Im not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I didnt havedid not have communications with the Russians, and Im unable to comment on it.
But George Papadopouloss guilty plea indicates that there were attempts in the Trump campaign to arrange a meeting with Putin, and that Sessions was aware of them. As CNN reports this morning, The chairman of Trumps national security team, then Alabama Senator and now Attorney General Jeff Sessions, shut down the idea of a Putin meeting at the March 31, 2016, gathering, according to the source. His reaction was confirmed with another source who had discussed Sessionss role.
The good news for Sessions is that he can plausibly claim to have opposed any Russian collusion. The bad news is that, in making those claims, he opens himself up to charges of perjury.
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https://newrepublic.com/minutes/145614/looks-like-jeff-sessions-perjured-himself
FSogol
(45,595 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)MontanaMama
(23,368 posts)were made to deny and obstruct at the lunch between the Elf and Dotard this past Monday?
Freethinker65
(10,116 posts)FBaggins
(26,793 posts)The "professor" and "Putin's niece" cannot be said to be "the Russian government".
Papadopoulos appears to have wanted to set up such a meeting... but Mueller needs to find that the meeting actually occurred before Sessions can be said to be lying on that question.
DURHAM D
(32,619 posts)the meeting took place?
Further, Mueller likely knows the true identity of the Professor and niece. They are likely Russian agents. oops
FBaggins
(26,793 posts)But WE don't know... and knowing that it DID occur (so far, the evidence appears to point the other way) is the only way that Sessions would be lying in that specific case.
Further, Mueller likely knows the true identity of the Professor and niece. They are likely Russian agents. oops
They almost certainly were (though I don't think Mueller knows specific identities)... but that doesn't really get us anywhere unless we later find out that the offer was picked up and accepted by the campaign and they then worked together to steal the election.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)The professor was identified in news reports as Joseph Mifsud. Carter Page went to Russia as "a private citizen" apparently meeting the criteria that Sam Clovis set out for a lower level person to go to Russia without raising alarms. And Sessions issued a blanket denial that he was not aware of any such activities. What he should have said was "that there some discussion of foreign trips but Trump only went to allied countries like Great Britain." That would have allowed him to be weaselly without perjury.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Not Putin's niece at all.
DURHAM D
(32,619 posts)Is she a Russian agent?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)O.K., I read it and did not memorize it. Don't have time to hunt it down.
http://wuwm.com/post/former-cia-official-says-attempts-leverage-trump-campaign-textbook-russian-recruitment#stream/0
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)The evidence shows otherwise, Pal!
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)because Trump needs a co-conspirator in charge of law enforcement!
MineralMan
(146,351 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,319 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,004 posts)Elf:
Troll:
elias7
(4,037 posts)This is a Republican characteristic
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)unblock
(52,503 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)They wouldn't need another channel going through a neophyte to mess up the already functional one.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Funny how their spin now focuses on anything but the "dirt" offer, wherein the big crime lies. Funnier still, Trump's spin burns Sessions. He must be prepared to resign already.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)It's possible to conclude he lied, but it's hard to prove he remembered but lied about it.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)pooping himself.
RandiFan1290
(6,261 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Lock him up