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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums****BREAKING NOW**** Sources contradict Sessions' testimony he opposed Russia outreach
Sessions testified before Congress in November 2017 that he pushed back against the proposal made by former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos at a March 31, 2016 campaign meeting. Then a senator from Alabama, Sessions chaired the meeting as head of the Trump campaigns foreign policy team.
Yes, I pushed back, Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee on Nov. 14, when asked whether he shut down Papadopoulos proposed outreach to Russia. Sessions has since also been interviewed by Mueller.
Three people who attended the March campaign meeting told Reuters they gave their version of events to FBI agents or congressional investigators probing Russian interference in the 2016 election. Although the accounts they provided to Reuters differed in certain respects, all threes, who declined to be identified, said Sessions had expressed no objections to Papadopoulos idea.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-sessions-exclusive/exclusive-sources-contradict-sessions-testimony-he-opposed-russia-outreach-idUSKBN1GU0NC
JDC
(10,127 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)The timing is too convenient
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)If I understand the premise: 45 fires Sessions for lying. 45 Hires a new AG who doesn't recuse and then takes the investigation from Rosenstien and fires Mueller.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Get ready Trump is going to jump off the cliff, fire the elf install his yes-man, he will fire Rosenstein/Mueller and precipitate a constitutional crisis.
Its coming down fast!
kentuck
(111,094 posts)Gothmog
(145,231 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,165 posts)Gothmog
(145,231 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)riversedge
(70,215 posts)LIARS!
...According to court documents released after his guilty plea, Papadopoulos said at the campaign meeting that he had connections who could help arrange a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Papadopoulos continued to pursue Russian contacts after the March 2016 meeting and communicated with some campaign officials about his efforts, according to the court documents.
Trump has said that he does not remember much of what happened at the very unimportant campaign meeting. Trump has said he did not meet Putin before becoming president.
Moscow has denied meddling in the election and Trump has denied his campaign colluded with Russia.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Notice what occurred as a result. Sessions just plain lied to Franken and other Dems on the Committee.
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)PatSeg
(47,430 posts)Kind of completes the picture nicely.
benld74
(9,904 posts)That Leprechaun is evil
SunSeeker
(51,554 posts)tobefree
(33 posts)In the very last frame.
LudwigPastorius
(9,140 posts)"Now, we gots to be sure that there's somethin' in this for Ole Jeff." At which point, he gave Papadopoulos his Cayman bank account number ready for Russian deposits.
erlewyne
(1,115 posts)I had tears.
My great-great-great-grandfather's brother was sleeping at Cedar Creek.
The war was over finally ... he could sleep. Then came Sessions with
a banjo on his knee and ambushed and killed this great great uncle.
That's the way Confederates fight. They then cry to their girlfriends.
uponit7771
(90,336 posts)... enablers of Benedict Donald and the Kremlin KKKlan