Jeff Sessions just offered the Trump teams latest spin on Russia

Bubbling idiot. I did watch some of it!

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Jeff Sessions just offered the Trump team’s latest spin on Russia


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By Paul Waldman November 14 at 1:38 PM
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke before the House Judiciary Committee Nov. 14. (Reuters)

Unlike his boss, who claims he possesses “one of the greatest memories of all time,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a man who gazes into the past and sees only a fog of out-of-focus associates and half-remembered events. But in his testimony today before the House Judiciary Committee, Sessions may have hit on the new Trump administration defense for the Russia scandal, one that can be applied to almost any future revelation.

Its essence is that the Trump campaign was such an ungodly, bumbling mess that it was simply incapable of colluding with the Russians in their campaign to undermine Hillary Clinton, help Donald Trump get elected, and generally disrupt and discredit the American electoral system.

As weaselly a defense as that may seem, it contains a good bit of truth. With each new revelation about the campaign’s contacts with Russia, a picture is filling out. It’s one not of a well-organized collusion conspiracy, but instead of a bunch of nincompoops engaging in a kind of ongoing, ad hoc, fitful sort-of-collusion, one that involved lots of meetings, lots of emails, and lots of contacts between various Russians with Kremlin connections and people at different levels of the campaign. Whether it fits your definition of “collusion,” it was one heck of an incompetent conspiracy.


This is what Sessions emphasized as a way of explaining his own faulty memory. Previously he had denied under oath that he met with any Russians during the campaign, a denial that was subsequently revealed to be false, since he had met with the Russian ambassador. He had also said, when asked whether he had any contact with Russians, “I did not, and I’m not aware of anyone else that did, and I don’t believe it happened.”