The invective being heaped on Jeff Sessions by democrats is astounding. Democrats are spitting out words like “perjury” and “treason” as part of their plan to cripple the Trump administration. Recusal not being enough, Pelosi called for Sessions to resign.
For the record, Jeff Sessions did not commit perjury.
The criminal law only prohibits lying to Congress under two statutes — 18 USC 1621 ands 18 USC 1001. Section 1621 requires a person “willfully and contrary” to a sworn oath “subscribe a material matter” which is both false and the person knows to be false. Section 1001 is basically the same, without certain tribunal prerequisites: it also requires the government prove a person willfully made a materially false statement. This requires three elements: first, a false statement; second, the false statement be “material”; and third, the false statement be made “knowingly” and “willfully.” A statement is not false if it can be interpreted in an innocent manner. A statement is not material if it is not particularly relevant to the subject of the inquiry. Willfully is a very high standard of proof: it requires the person know they are committing the crime, and do so anyway. None of the three exist as to Sessions.
Sessions did not lie. Period. Al Franken did not ask the simple question- “Did you discuss the Trump campaign in your meetings with the Russians over the last year?” Instead, he asked an intentionally ambiguous question which made an answer complicated so that the response could be used a weapon to later bludgeon Sessions.
It’s not the first time Franken has made an ass of himself. Far from it.
Now, note the title to this interview:
“Attorney General under fire over Russia meetings” Hmm It’s time to examine Newton’s Third Law of Politics: for every action, there is at least an equal and opposite reaction. If one is come under fire for Russia meetings….then let’s bring the fire.
Here’s Chuck Schumer serving up a helping of his good friend Vladimir Putin
Dianne Feinstein is thick with the Russians
Barack Obama met with his Russian handlers at least 22 times in the White House.
Sen. Clarie McCaskill flat out lied about meeting with the Russians.
Hillary Clinton is up to her server with the Russians. Even HuffPoo asserts that the Russians hold a sword of Damocles over the Clinton’s.
From where I sit, it appears that the democrat party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Russian state.
About that lying to Congress thing- Sessions did not lie. Then again, lying has been a cottage industry for democrats over the last eight years.
obama lied endlessly about health care, red lines and bad intel.
Eric Holder made a career of lying to Congress.
Both CIA Director Brennan and DNI Clapper lied to Congress.
IRS Chief Koskinen would lie about a sunny day.
And then we have that famous meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch in which they agreed to quash the Hillary indictment.
You’d be hard pressed to find a fib-free democrat. So whose resignation did Pelosi demand? Which democrat perjury did she complain about? Which lie?
One is tempted to ask “Have you no decency, Ma’am?”, but the problem is she, as all democrats, have neither shame nor memory.
Without any doubt this character assassination is the brain child of barack obama. obama’s administration has been leaking information with a most convenient timeline. It is said that what goes around comes around. As obama plots open warfare on Trump, I think it’s time for some coming around. And then some.
UPDATE
The Hill reports that “Pressure mounts on GOP leaders to back special counsel”
LOL. They’ll get the same prosecutor that obama appointed.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
Let’s see if we can break down this question:
Nope.
You can’t break it down.
It is an innuendo-ridden run-on rant with no possible “right” answer.
It is “have you stopped beating your wife?” all over again.
NOW…..
WHY did Sen Sessions meet with the Russian Ambassador?
Because the OBAMA White House asked him to and set it up!
I wonder if any of those same Obama WH staffers “leaked” the story to the NYTimes?
Al Franken is from Minnesota their state bird is the Common Loon but its a lot more intellegent then franken ever was
Somebody caught Nancy Pelosi and quizzed her about meeting the Russian Ambassador.
At first she said, no, she’d never met this Russian ambassador.
But then she admitted she’d met with previous Russian Ambassadors many times and that there is nothing unusual about an elected official doing so.
Huh!
obama is guilty of sedition and subterfuge, period.
Compare Nancy Pelosi to Mad Madame Mim from Disneys THE SWORD AND THE STONE just as nutty and just as silly
The Dimocrats are now having regularly scheduled ‘crying’ parties. When they are wrong, they cry, which is very often. In fact, they now have so much to cry about that they just go ahead and meet and cry so that they stay caught up all the time. We have got to stop taking their toys or they’ll wear themselves out with sniveling and crying.
@Spurwing Plover: Franken is a common loon isn’t he?
I’ve said it before; Trump has shown them the way. As long as you have right on your side, don’t fear the media. Vilify them as the liars they are. Let the liberals burn themselves out banging their heads against a brick wall.
The one and only problem here is that Republicans don’t know how to play these socialist undermining games. Democrats are naturals at it. But, America happens to be loaded (though not full) with Americans and Americans appear to know crap when they see it. They rejected Obama’s agenda, they rejected Hillary and they will reject this leftist subterfuge designed to destroy a government they cannot legally control.
@Bill… Deplorable Me:
What the Dims are finding exceedingly hard to accept is that the Russians did all they could to help the Dims win and even with all that help, they had lost so many blue collar and black voters, that even with the Russians and illegals voting,, it was not enough to stick the country with the witch. They thought their brainwashing techniques were adequate.
Al Franken and Jill Stein on the 2020 ticket?
FrankenStein
Frau Pelosi?
Did anyone ever really think Obama would leave? My wife was adamant that Obama would simply stay in office, which I felt he WANTED to do, but figured that would ignite an open civil war over the succession of power. However, it appears he has planted sleeper cells throughout government, developed surveillance networks, changed the line of succession in departments to implant loyal liberals if they were successful in ousting an appointee and unleashed his PAC to keep stirring up trouble, like a good little community organizer.
So, thus far, he hasn’t LEFT office; is is COMPETING in the Oval Office with the duly elected resident, fearing all the time that his “legacy” will be revealed for what it is. Trump is President… Obama is “virtual” President.
It is being revealed that Obama had phones at Trump Towers… where planning for the Trump Administration was being carried out… tapped. In October. OCTOBER!
From this point forward, anyone defending Obama’s involvement and using the falsehoods his network has been generating to attack Trump do so at the risk of defending
.
I understand that Attorney-General Sessions just released a formal invitation to Senator Franken to go screw himself.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: I thought Obama was too lazy to do anything. He does have Rice to do the work!
@Bill… Deplorable Me:
One need ask ones self, at what point is it to be considered that the media, the far left media, are more than complicit with the post president obama. His entrenched operatives seem to have a direct line to the reliable far left media.
Time for an investigation into OFA.
From where I sit…
Well, Dr John, when you sit in a latrine everything looks and smells like shit.
Much like your post.
This site ought to enter the Olympics competing in gymnastics. Gabby Douglas and Simone Boles have nothing in you guys.
Xoxo
@PhillipMarlowe: That which smells like shit has a “-D” behind it.
@Bill- Deplorable Me: Like your name.
Bill- D
Idiot.
@PhillipMarlowe: You are the idiot, following the -D idiots you vote for in order to get others to support your sloth.
Obama promised the Russians to conform to their will. Hillary swapped our uranium for personal wealth. That’s what you support and you stupidly follow along as they point point away from themselves and accuse all the wrong people.
Yeah. YOU are the Supreme Idiot.
@Bill- Deplorable Me: No, Billy, You are the deplorable idiot.
/s
@PhillipMarlowe: Phillip, that is a very mature argument, kinda like: :Bet my daddy can beat your daddy. Why don’t you keep it up? You must get paid by the word. What a POS.
@PhillipMarlowe: Yours is simply an opinion and, frankly, the opinion of someone that supported Obama and Hillary, proving the total ignorance of that person, is absolutely worthless. In fact, it probably proves that I am correct.
@RedTeam: RedTeam.
I was responding in the manner of Bill -D.
It is too bad that my sardonic remark went over your head.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: Bill -D. You need to go back and fix your grammar.
@bobdog: doubtful.
Sessions is against homosexuals and Onanists.
@Nanny G: Your reasoning is right on the money. Part of the difficulty in carrying on exploratory conversations on this site as well as in this country is the complete indoctrination of the left who are left with nothing to refute facts except name calling and rioting. It is actually pathetic to see grown adults acting like immature children instead of thoughtful adults. The left lost this election and will continue to lose elections and public support for their ideas until they understand why they lost. Many people have made that exceedingly clear to them. Their indoctrination prevents them from reasoning.
@Randy: It is actually pathetic to see grown adults acting like immature children instead of thoughtful adults.
Apt description of the so-called President Donald Trump.
@PhillipMarlowe: It didn’t go over my head, it came out of your mouth, I just pointed out it sounds like you might graduate Kindergarten in a couple of years. Very mature for your age.
@PhillipMarlowe:
The difference being?
@PhillipMarlowe:
Spoken by someone that has to look up to see the bottom of the barrel..
@RedTeam: Why would the Russians want the Dems to win?–HRC said Putin’s election was illegitimate–Putin retaliated. Pretty obvious.
Putin and Trump share a mutual respect.
Randy–Trump lies for effect–it’s worked so far. He’s toying with the American people–much as he did on The Apprentice–no substance–just an aging showman.
@PhillipMarlowe: My grammar is repairable. Your ideology is not.
@Rich Wheeler:
Because Democrats are for sale, and Hillary already has done cash deals for resources and information with the Russians. If you believe your own propaganda, no one knows WHAT Trump is going to do… why would the Russians be any different?
Democrats have shown all the signs of being willing to bow down to the Russians or anyone else with superior negotiating skills (which is everyone). OF COURSE the Russians would want Hillary in office. She is corrupt and she is incompetent. She has shown a willingness to sell out for her own benefit. She worries more about her political enemies than about enemies of the nation. Her national security is porous.
@July 4th American:
I hope at some point the administration instructs the IRS to apply the same scrutiny to groups like OFA, MediaMatters, Kos and numerous other far left instigators, since such activity is not “targeting” but the IRS just doing its job. Obviously, they just never had enough time to get around to liberal groups.
Trump associate plays down Twitter contact with Guccifer 2.0
Right. There’s nothing at all odd or suspicious about such contact. Nor with “back-channel contact” with Julian Assange during the campaign.
These guys really must believe American voters are now the stupidest people on the planet.
@Bill… Deplorable Me:
Exactly, but in this instance it will be for good reason. Media matters is a criminal front org and OFA is a domestic terrorist org.
@Greg:
Those who voted for Obama and Hillary actually are.
By the way, it’s the democratic party, not the democrat party. I believe proper usage for adjectives is covered by Common Core English Language Standards, somewhere around the 5th Grade Level.
@Greg: Great the kids will use proper adjectives when their checkbook does not balance, because they are using common core math methods.
Are you a democrat or a democratic? And by the way few of us were subjected to common core education.
Some of us were already married and parents in the 1990s.
@Greg: There is nothing democratic about the Democrat party. Therefore, it is Democrat Party. Party of Democrats.
@Bill… Deplorable Me:
I prefer to use the democrat party. There is nothing democratic when the party represents mass constituents in sprawling urban centers.
Were they democratic, the recent election map would have blue representation in more places than just the east and left coasts.
Cue up greg with the popular vote mantra in 1…2…3….
@Rich Wheeler:
Since US military has been decimated under Obozo, the Russians can be pretty sure that the Dimocraps are not suddenly going to up the spending to get the military back up to normal levels. A weak US Military is a plus for the Russians. Beside all that, it has now been disclosed that the Russians met with Hillary’s campaign the same number of times they met with Trumps.
@Greg:
If technicality is an issue, you should use a capital letter. But the actual correct spelling is Dimocraps.
While you’re correcting grammar, tell Marlowe his first name is spelled Philip, it doesn’t have two l’s.
@Greg: Twitter contact with Guccifer 2.0
Oh no not twitter where the whole world could read (key spooky music) Where next Hillarys unsecured server??Weiners laptop? the liberal media sure is making alot out of Trumps government associates chatting with diplomats, and when someone points out neither side has anything to hide(maybe) … everyone but the liberals get it.
Its Obamas money laundering to pay the terrorists and running arms to them the libs should concern them selves with.How long will the media lie all the secret sources of wiretapping (NYT)then when confronted with lies, and told their clown prince did it illegally , they demand proof what a bunch of clowns.
@kitt: And Hillary’s campaign talking to the Russians, too. But, I’m sure she was just making it clear how honest and incorruptible she is.
@Bill- Deplorable Me: Now, now we know its part of normal business to meet with diplomats, its the MSLSD and the other conspiracy theorists sore losers that are stirring poop in their bowl. this is popcorn time it was them that began the wiretapping Russian connections line, only they didnt catch a trout they found out that what they were reporting with baited breath was a crime, if true, a crime committed by their dear police state. The big joke is it didnt work Trump is President and it was them that might just bring down the criminals.
@kitt: How many taps and bugs were placed on Hillary and her campaign? My guess is zero.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: They didnt need to there was such a huge leak the Dem convention was a zoo, Bernies backers not pleased He gave up, for a nice lake house, the opportunity to be the Dem candidate. Sgt. Wasserman Shultz booed then fired. None of them denying that the emails leaked were accurate. The ones that confirmed CNN asked what to ask the Republicans and gave the questions in advance for the DT vs HRC debate.
Did you hear NY is tossing the literacy test for teachers? Its racist, because whites cheat by being literate.
http://nypost.com/2017/03/06/state-considering-major-changes-to-teacher-certification-exams/
@kitt: That is liberals telling minorities exactly how intelligent they believe them to be.
@Bill- Deplorable Me: Question is how did they get through college without being literate? Every teacher I know had to have a degree. I think these so called colleges need to be investigated.
No wonder more and more schools in the cities are not accredited. But this is off thread, this is just another example of how liberal progressives are destroying our country.