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Friday, March 03, 2017

Fake News: Media, Democrats Distort Remarks to Target Jeff Sessions, 9913,32

Democrats and the media are once again targeting Attorney General Jeff Sessions — this time, over allegations that he met twice with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The Washington Post reports that Sessions met Sergey Kislyak once at a Heritage Foundation event in July 2016, where other ambassadors were also present. It also reports that Sessions met with Kislyak in his Senate office in September, in his capacity on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The hook on which the Post attempts to hang Sessions is that he did not disclose the meetings to the Senate when he was asked about “possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow.” Sessions’s spokesperson at the Department of Justice, Sarah Isgur Flores, says his answer in January was truthful because he was asked about “the Trump campaign — not about meetings he took as a senator and a member of the Armed Services Committee.”

The Post does not provide the full transcript of the question, from Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), and Sessions’s answer. Instead it summarizes the exchange in a way that makes it seem that Sessions was asked if there was any contact at all between the campaign and representatives of the Russian government.

In fact, what Sessions was asked about was sustained, ongoing communications — a core accusation in the dubious “dossier.”

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The republicans I hope have the balls to continue on despite the media and democrat attacks.

Anonymous said...

Media and democrats doing this so he cant focus on Hillary's crimes.

Anonymous said...

I think most of the country is sick to hell about this kind of political nonsense.
How many people have died because of this "meeting"?
How many families can't put food on their table because of his alleged actions?
Democrats are just making fools of themselves.

Anonymous said...

They need to be concerned about the muslims in office and their radical views. And the Republicans need to put their foot down on this bullshit and quit letting these democratic bullies spread these lies and get on with business.

Anonymous said...

Sessions TOOOOOO smart for All of them !!! He be Fine !!