Trump\Russia Connection: How many more ...

[Jones]

Putin Demands Sessions Resign from Russian Government
By Andy Borowitz
March 2, 2017

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PHOTOGRAPH BY TOM WILLIAMS / CQ ROLL CALL VIA
The Borowitz Report)—In a stunning rebuke of the Attorney General, Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that Jeff Sessions resign from the Russian government “at once.”

Speaking at the Kremlin, Putin said that the controversies swirling around Sessions in Washington “no longer make it possible for Jeff Sessions to function as an integral part of the Kremlin team.”

Putin asserted that Sessions had “become a distraction,” and ordered the Alabama native to clear out his desk at the Kremlin “by Friday morning at the latest.”

While Kremlin sources said that forcing Sessions’s resignation was “a necessary measure,” they would not guarantee that he was the only member of the Trump Cabinet who would be expelled from the Russian government.

“We’ve put a dozen of them on notice,” one Kremlin source said.

 

[newfie]

How many more of these Trump\Russia connections before normal people start to take them seriously?
If you repeat something enough times, people start to believe it!

found another trump surrogate. Oops wait that's Pelosi

 

[newfie]

How many more of these Trump\Russia connections before normal people start to take them seriously?
If you repeat something enough times, people start to believe it!

that would be the democratic strategy .

 

[Babagounj]

Photo contradicts Pelosi's statement about not meeting Kislyak

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that she's never met with the current Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.

"Not with this Russian ambassador, no," Pelosi told POLITICO's Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer during a Playbook interview, when asked whether she had ever met with the Russian envoy.


But a file photo from Pelosi's 2010 meeting with Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev shows Kislyak at the table across from Pelosi — then House speaker — and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). Medvedev had been in the country for a meeting with President Barack Obama a day earlier and stopped in on Capitol Hill to meet with congressional leaders as well.

Asked to square Pelosi's comments with the photo of the meeting, a spokesman said Pelosi simply meant she never had a solo meeting with Kislyak.

"Of course, that's what she meant," said the spokesman, Drew Hammill. "She has never had a private one-on-one with him."

After Trump needled Pelosi on Twitter about the matter, Pelosi hit back with her own tweet and another statement from her spokesman.

“Leader Pelosi’s answer to the question today was clearly about private, one-on-one meetings, which she has never had with Ambassador Kislyak," Hammill said. "The Ambassador was incidental to the 2010 meeting between then-Russian President Medvedev and then-Speaker Pelosi. Clearly, one needs to remind Politico that Attorney General Sessions lied under oath about a secret meeting amidst Russia’s hacking of our election, which he also didn’t disclose in a written questionnaire.”

Where's the proof of Russian hacking ?

 

[Babagounj]

http://ntknetwork.com/pelosis-history-of-meeting-with-russian-officials-exchanging-gifts-with-them/

 

[newfie]

its a bizarre argument now playing out on both sides.

a) an ambassadors job is to meet with many different public officials in his host country
b) an elected officials job is to meet with many different foreign officials.

however in todays world if any elected official met with the Russian ambassador then they are suddenly wrong for doing so.

we need to pursue this to the end and see how many us officials met with the Russian guy. maybe we can fire them all and finally drain the swamp.

 

[Babagounj]

Easy fix is to deport all ambassadors and fire everyone who has met with them.
Anyone left over gets to lead the country .

 

[bbsam]

its a bizarre argument now playing out on both sides.

a) an ambassadors job is to meet with many different public officials in his host country
b) an elected officials job is to meet with many different foreign officials.

however in todays world if any elected official met with the Russian ambassador then they are suddenly wrong for doing so.

we need to pursue this to the end and see how many us officials met with the Russian guy. maybe we can fire them all and finally drain the swamp.

So why didn't he just say that when Senator Fanken asked him?

 

[newfie]

So why didn't he just say that when Senator Fanken asked him?

you know the answer or how to find it . why didn't Makaskill remember her two conversations with the Russian ambassor?

 

[Babagounj]

So why didn't he just say that when Senator Fanken asked him?

I forgot what question did Fanken ask ?

Was it something about socks ?

 

[It will be fine]

you know the answer or how to find it . why didn't Makaskill remember her two conversations with the Russian ambassor?

Maybe because her meetings were 4 years ago and she wasn't testifying before congress.

 

[bbsam]

I forgot what question did Fanken ask ?

Was it something about socks ?

If any Trump surrogates had met with Russian operatives. Really, did they think politics would go away just because Trump came to town?

 

[bbsam]

I forgot what question did Fanken ask ?

Was it something about socks ?

Are you playing dumb?

 

[newfie]

Maybe because her meetings were 4 years ago and she wasn't testifying before congress.

one was two years ago and I don't see any distinction in dishonesty. In Sessions case the question was asked in the context of his acting as a surrogate on behalf of the trump campaign in that sense I would believe he answered the question and did not offer up any of the other meetings he had as a senator in congress. You can argue until you're blue in the face as to whether he should have offered more.

In Claires case her dishonest statement had one purpose and one purpose only . to destroy the reputation of Sessions in the public forum.

at some point we have to stop playing these gotcha games and get to functioning as a country.

 

[newfie]

Are you playing dumb?

are you?

 

[newfie]

If any Trump surrogates had met with Russian operatives. Really, did they think politics would go away just because Trump came to town?

sounds like you approve of a government that cant function because they are constantly mired in politics.

 

[bbsam]

are you?

No. You guys don't see a difference between a Trump campaign surrogate at a time when US intelligence is warning that the Russians are messing with the election and senators meeting with foreign dignitaries. And when the question is asked in a senate confirmation hearing? He has to know the answer and be open about it.

 

[bbsam]

sounds like you approve of a government that cant function because they are constantly mired in politics.

Oh it functions. Slowly and messily. Now if you prefer a different form of democracy like Great Britain's, just say so. That would be more efficient but it wouldn't be American democracy.

 

[newfie]

Oh it functions. Slowly and messily. Now if you prefer a different form of democracy like Great Britain's, just say so. That would be more efficient but it wouldn't be American democracy.

I prefer the current form functioning not grandstanding

 

[newfie]

No. You guys don't see a difference between a Trump campaign surrogate at a time when US intelligence is warning that the Russians are messing with the election and senators meeting with foreign dignitaries. And when the question is asked in a senate confirmation hearing? He has to know the answer and be open about it.

I see your hypocrisy, if that helps