Trump slams Sessions and says he would NEVER have hired him if he knew he would recuse himself from Russia probe

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[h=2]Trump slams Sessions and says he would NEVER have hired him if he knew he would recuse himself from Russia probe - before warning special prosecutor Mueller not to pry into his family business in explosive interview[/h]

Speaking to The New York Times, he admonished Sessions, (top right) his attorney general, for recusing himself from the Russia investigation and said he never would have given him the position had he known ahead of time. 'Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, which frankly I think is very unfair to the president. 'How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, "Thanks, Jeff, but I'm not going to take you." It's extremely unfair - and that's a mild word - to the president.' Next in the firing line was ousted FBI director James Comey. (bottom right) who he said tried to use a dirty dossier of made-up material about him as leverage to keep his job. Trump also warned Robert Mueller (right, center), not to go too far in his investigation by looking in to his family.

 

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[h=1]Trump slams Sessions and says he would NEVER have hired him if he knew he'd recuse himself from Russia probe - before warning special prosecutor Mueller not to pry into his family business in explosive interview[/h]

• Trump spoke with The New York Times in an interview published on Wednesday
• He told the newspaper he never would have hired Jeff Sessions as the Attorney General if he knew he would later recuse himself from Russia investigation
• Trump said it was 'unfair to the president' that Sessions took the job then stepped away from the probe
• He also slammed James Comey, the ousted FBI director, claiming he used the dirty dossier of made-up material about him as leverage to try to keep his job
• He also warned special prosecutor Robert Mueller not to look in to his family or his family's finances as part of the ongoing probe into links to the Kremlin
• Taking aim at the special prosecutor's efforts, Trump said his office was full of 'conflicts of interest'

 

[superbeets]

President Trump has took aim at Jeff Sessions, fired FBI director James Comey and Robert Mueller in a no-holds barred interview on Wednesday.
Speaking to The New York Times, he admonished Sessions, the attorney general, for recusing himself from the Russia investigation and said he never would have given him the position had he known ahead of time.
'Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, which frankly I think is very unfair to the president.
'How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, "Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you." It’s extremely unfair — and that’s a mild word — to the president.'

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President Trump (pictured at the White House on Wednesday) took part in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times

He went on to describe Sessions' testimony before a Senate House Committee investigating the issue as 'bad'.
'Jeff Sessions gave some bad answers. He gave some answers that were simple questions and should have been simple answers, but they weren't,' he said.
Next in the firing line was ousted FBI director James Comey.

 

[superbeets]

Trump said he believed Comey, who he fired unceremoniously in May, of leveraging the now infamous 'dirty dossier' of made-up material that was supposed to incriminate the president and his connections to Russia in order to keep his job.
Two weeks before his inauguration in January, Comey attended a meeting at Trump Tower where he warned the president of the dossier's existence.
'In my opinion, he shared it so that I would think he had it out there,' he said. Asked specifically if he believed Comey used it 'as leverage', he replied: 'Yeah I think so, in retrospect.'
The dossier contained false information about the president and his alleged connections to Russia. It was compiled by a former British spy.

Among his comments was that he never would have hired Attorney General Jeff Sessions if he had known he would recuse himself from the Russia investigation

Trump claimed he fired Comey over his poor handling of the Hillary Clinton email scandal last year.
After being fired, Comey revealed that he feared the president let him go because after he carried out the investigation into the administration's ties with Russia after a private conversation during which he claimed the president asked him to ease off.
Trump insists he never directed Comey on how to conduct the investigation and claims he did not, as it was suggested by the former FBI director, ask him to go easy on disgraced National Security Adviser Michael Flynn who resigned earlier this year.
In his interview on Tuesday, however, the president did not shy away from discussing the investigation's new leader, Robert Mueller.
While Trump insisted to the Times that he would never instruct the Justice Department to fire Mueller, he did warn that if he turned the investigation towards his family's finances beyond Russia, he would consider it going too far.
'I think that’s a violation. Look, this is about Russia,' he said.
He also claimed that Mueller's office was rife was conflicts of interest and said confidently: 'I don’t think we’re under investigation. I’m not under investigation. For what? I didn’t do anything wrong.'

Trump said ousted FBI Director James Comey (left) used the dirty dossier of made-up material about him as leverage in an attempt to keep his job back in January, before the president's inauguration. Elsewhere in the interview he warned Robert Mueller, (right) the special prosecutor now leading the Russian investigation, not to go too far with it by looking in to his family's resources

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The president also addressed his meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, in July. He claimed their informal meeting lasted just 15 minutes and that they spoke about 'adoptions'. Others say the secret meeting went on for an hour. They are pictured shaking hands at a scheduled sit-down at the same event

The president also touched on his meeting with Vladimir Putin after the G20 summit, claiming the pair only spoke for 15 minutes and that the conversation was about Russia's ban on US citizens adopting children from the country.
Interestingly, the same subject was given as the reason for an ill-fated meeting which his son Donald Trump Jr. attended last summer during his election campaign.
A string of emails - released by Donald Jr. before to preempt it being released by the media - has since proved that the real reason for it was for Trump to be given dirt on his opponent Hillary Clinton.
Whether or not that meeting was discussed was not in the Times's report on Wednesday night.
The interview took place in the Oval Office and Hope Hicks, Trump's long-serving aide, was present. It marked a change in the president's discourse with The New York Times, a liberal newspaper which he regularly categorizes as 'fake news media'.
During the 50-minute conversation, the president's daughter Ivanka appeared with her six-year-old daughter Arabella.
Arabella ran to her grandfather to give him a kiss then showcased her command of Chinese for the reporters present.

 

[SheriffJoe]

I agree with Trump, Sessions needs to go.

Donald Trump was elected to "drain the swamp" and restore law and order in America. So what does Sessions do? Sits there in a corner like a wounded animal allowing this charade of an 'investigation' against Trump to continue while the REAL criminals escape justice: Crooked Hillary, Comney, Hussein, Rice, Brennan, Clapper, Lynch, Holder, pedophile Podesta, Jarrett and their goons...it's a target-rich environment. Key witnesses are still turning up dead, yet Sessions does nothing - ZILCH.

Do your job, or get the hell out and allow someone with principled leadership to do what Trump was elected to do: destroy the corrupt criminal Deep State.

 

[roadreeler57]

Can Sessions un-recuse himself?

 

[Willie99]

More proof the Republicans don't march in lockstep like libtard nation does. Right, wrong or indifferent, they're more principled and they vote their conscious

Holder and Lynch would do whatever they had to do in the political arena to help their party, under the guise of law enforcement and objectivity. The proof is in the pudding.

They're much more entrenched and much dirtier in their politics. Enabled by their media and their need big government solutions flock

 

[Willie99]

I agree with Trump, Sessions needs to go.

Donald Trump was elected to "drain the swamp" and restore law and order in America. So what does Sessions do? Sits there in a corner like a wounded animal allowing this charade of an 'investigation' against Trump to continue while the REAL criminals escape justice: Crooked Hillary, Comney, Hussein, Rice, Brennan, Clapper, Lynch, Holder, pedophile Podesta, Jarrett and their goons...it's a target-rich environment. Key witnesses are still turning up dead, yet Sessions does nothing - ZILCH.

Do your job, or get the hell out and allow someone with principled leadership to do what Trump was elected to do: destroy the corrupt criminal Deep State.

I hear what you're saying, but I like Sessions and I think there are a lot of battles remaining. Hopefully he fights better going forward.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

I agree with Trump, Sessions needs to go.

Donald Trump was elected to "drain the swamp" and restore law and order in America. So what does Sessions do? Sits there in a corner like a wounded animal allowing this charade of an 'investigation' against Trump to continue while the REAL criminals escape justice: Crooked Hillary, Comney, Hussein, Rice, Brennan, Clapper, Lynch, Holder, pedophile Podesta, Jarrett and their goons...it's a target-rich environment. Key witnesses are still turning up dead, yet Sessions does nothing - ZILCH.

Do your job, or get the hell out and allow someone with principled leadership to do what Trump was elected to do: destroy the corrupt criminal Deep State.

It's a little late don't you think? Keep in mind all of the actors you sited are protected.

 

[SheriffJoe]

It's a little late don't you think? Keep in mind all of the actors you sited are protected.

This begs the question - by whom and how?

Simply elect tough mean SOBs who simply do not care what the ruling class says or thinks.

Assuming Trump has significantly reduced the influence of "fake news", he's paved the way for the right candidate(s), who, should be more immune from future political assassinations, at least in theory.

Government (the current "system" untethered from its constitutional moorings) no longer works for the people. At some point, one would think the people will have had enough.

 

[SheriffJoe]

I hear what you're saying, but I like Sessions and I think there are a lot of battles remaining. Hopefully he fights better going forward.

Sessions is a good man, just not the right AG.

 

[SheriffJoe]

AG Jeff Sessions Says He Loves His Job and Won’t Step Down …Yet (VIDEO)

Jim Hoft Jul 20th, 2017 10:54 am 8 Comments

On March 2nd Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the crackpot “Russian” conspiracy investigations.

He thought it would be a nice gesture to Democrats.

It wasn’t. It was foolish.

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President Trump was furious with the Attorney General’s decision.

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Trump left WH in a fury on Friday, fuming about Sessions's recusal and telling aides that Sessions shouldn't have recused himself...
9:30 AM - 4 Mar 2017

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Trump was reportedly blindsided by the decision and furious with Sessions at the time.

In May Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein named former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel. This NEVER would have happened under Jeff Sessions.

On June 6 Deep State activists reported that Trump was still upset with the Attorney General for his unintelligible decision.

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On June 8 former FBI Director and leaker James Comey admitted he played the DOJ into launching a Special Counsel investigation of the Trump-Russia connections.

On Wednesday President Trump told The New York Times he never would have selected Sessions for Attorney General if he knew he would recuse himself from the Russian witch hunt.

President Trump said on Wednesday that he never would have appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions had he known Mr. Sessions would recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation that has dogged his presidency, calling the decision “very unfair to the president.”
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AG Sessions today said he is not planning on stepping down.

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Jeff Sessions says he loves his job and vows to stay on as AG "as long as that is appropriate"
11:21 AM - 20 Jul 2017

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​http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/ag-jeff-sessions-says-loves-job-wont-step-yet-video/

 

[Dave007inVegas]

This begs the question - by whom and how?

Simply elect tough mean SOBs who simply do not care what the ruling class says or thinks.

Assuming Trump has significantly reduced the influence of "fake news", he's paved the way for the right candidate(s), who, should be more immune from future political assassinations, at least in theory.

Government (the current "system" untethered from its constitutional moorings) no longer works for the people. At some point, one would think the people will have had enough.

I've been trying to figure that out for decades and have drawn a blank.

Should Sessions be prosecuting those you mentioned, I mean that is his
job, right? There is clear undisputable evidence that they all broke the
law in one form or another.

So far all I've seen are some veiled threats to defund sanctuary cities.

Will the top law enforcement officer ever bring those elitist criminals
to justice or is he just going to let them slide?

I just don't get it and I'm convinced I never will.

 

[SheriffJoe]

I've been trying to figure that out for decades and have drawn a blank.

Should Sessions be prosecuting those you mentioned, I mean that is his
job, right? There is clear undisputable evidence that they all broke the
law in one form or another.

So far all I've seen are some veiled threats to defund sanctuary cities.

Will the top law enforcement officer ever bring those elitist criminals
to justice or is he just going to let them slide?

I just don't get it and I'm convinced I never will.

Ignore the Mueller clown show and his partisan hack team. Unfortunately, it is also proving clear Sessions is a joke.

So hire Rudy G. as special prosecutor to go after every one of the swamp creatures I mentioned. That'll get their attention.

 

[Michelangelo]

Where is Rudy? Awful quiet lately. Minimally, we need his voice.

 

[TomGshotput]

Sessions put his own selfish interests ahead of what is best for our country. He was an American hero and then he turned his back on us. We elected Trump to Drain the Swamp, now he needs to do that by firing a poor excuse for an Attorney General.

 

[Enfuego]

The reason I couldn't vote for Trump once again in the spotlight. Absolutely no need to embarrass your AG in the public forum. No class or professionalism and I just can't get beyond that.

 

[mplastered]

The reason I couldn't vote for Trump once again in the spotlight. Absolutely no need to embarrass your AG in the public forum. No class or professionalism and I just can't get beyond that.

I agree, but........It's better than that scum bag, low life, piece of shit , skank, liberal. Yep, her.

 

[SmallDaddy]

How could have Sessions not recuse himself from something that hasnt happened at the time yet????

 

[SmallDaddy]

Also how could have Comey retired when he found out on live tv that he was fired????