The way they are weaseling the weasel makes me wonder when the recording of the meeting is going to go public, with Sessions specifically talking about the 2016 election. Want to start a pool?
“Thanks again for your help on that email thing, Sergey. We were up against the ropes there for a while. It looks like we might even have a shot at winning this thing, after all. Just a moment…you’re not recording this one, right Sarah? I never could figure out how to work these new digital recorders, myself. Now, where were we?”
I know one person who will vote for a republican no matter what, not matter how repulsive they might be in every other way, because democrats are OK with bodily autonomy of women. Their party loyalty is absolute, and kind of sickening, because they are otherwise a fine person.
You know, I was thinking they were going to insist that yes, he did not lie because he did not had any conversation about the campaign, he was just totally talking about something else, so no perjury…
… but it seems I’m smarter than then and all my political experience is playing Vampire: The Masquerade a few times.
In the Franken questioning, he wasn’t even asked whether he’d participated in any conversations. Franken asked him what he would do (as attorney general) if it turned out that people involved in Trump’s campaign had, in fact, had such conversations. Sessions volunteered that he hadn’t had any “communications” with the Russians.
Edit: I know that weasels gotta wheeze, but there’s not any wiggle room in his response to Franken. You should watch the clip.
Well, there isn’t the actual words he used, but in the context of the question Franken answers, he could pretty easily say, “What I meant was that I hadn’t discussed the campaign with anyone from Russia, since that’s what Senator Franken was asking about.” But they’ve already moved onto, “Yeah, I murdered seven people at the direction of the ambassador, but that wasn’t the important thing.”
Thanks for the info. I was writing after seeing another quoted statement from Sessions. Here’s exactly what Franken asked/Sessions answered:
So let me shift slightly to say that the claim will now be that Sessions was answering in the context of “the campaign”, and not in the context of “general communication” or some other such nonsense. It’ll be weasel words for the win–that’s my call.
Well actually (), since Mattis hired her, he’ll have to listen to her thoughts on the matter, not trump. Of course, trump will just “move on her like a bitch” when he feels like it. Because that’s the kind of guy he is.
Yeah, of course it’s weasel words to cover the weasel words because the whole point of saying he didn’t have anything to do with Russia was to avoid answering Al Franken’s question.
I don’t know, I think my comment is still plausible if the whole administration was completely surprised to win, and immediately went into damage control. Maybe even more plausible. Like if they only jokingly half thought they might pull it off, this was the plan, and then it was like:
"Holy shit, so are we going with the whole destruction of the fabric of democracy thing? That seems kind of extreme now?
“Yeah I guess, unless you have a better idea, otherwise we’re all fucked”
Well I’m loving the footage I’m seeing from the town hall meetings. Your elected representatives aren’t under any illusions.
You’ve got people in the streets, mobilised.
But what I’m wondering here, is if that really is the only avenue. This is really starting to look criminal, possibly realistically prosecutable.
I mean, humour me here.
Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that there was iron clad, irrefutable evidence that Trump personally colluded with Russia to influence the election.
That’s high treason, right?
That’s punishable by the death penalty, right?
I just want to know, in my crazy, feverish visions of possible futures, do I now need to include Trump being lawfully executed by the state?
Like is that on the menu now? Because a lot of shit I would have thought to be at the wildest extremes of possibility is happening for real, right now.
Treason does, but it’s specifically defined in the Constitution, and, unless you define Russia as an enemy of the US (hard to do since the Cold War ended), what Trump has done doesn’t qualify.
But yes, it looks like Trump could be tried for other crimes. (Espionage, maybe?)
The problem is that he’d have to be impeached, which would take a vote by the Republican-led House to be accomplished. And even then, he’d probably have whatever sentence commuted by President Pence.
So no, it doesn’t look like Trump will be executed. Certainly not for High Treason.
), since Mattis hired her, he’ll have to listen to her thoughts on the matter, not trump. Of course, trump will just “move on her like a bitch” when he feels like it. Because that’s the kind of guy he is.
- someone in that administration has to listen to her, for her role to be anything other than a figleaf expert.