Current Events > Trump SLAMS Sessions, Comey, Mueller

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-sessions-russia.html?

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.”

In a remarkable public break with one of his earliest political supporters, Mr. Trump complained that Mr. Sessions’s decision ultimately led to the appointment of a special counsel that should not have happened. “Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else,” Mr. Trump said.

In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, the president also accused James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director he fired in May, of trying to leverage a dossier of compromising material to keep his job. Mr. Trump criticized both the acting F.B.I. director who has been filling in since Mr. Comey’s dismissal and the deputy attorney general who recommended it. And he took on Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel now leading the investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s election.

Mr. Trump said Mr. Mueller was running an office rife with conflicts of interest and warned investigators against delving into matters too far afield from Russia. Mr. Trump never said he would order the Justice Department to fire Mr. Mueller, nor would he outline circumstances under which he might do so. But he left open the possibility as he expressed deep grievance over an investigation that has taken a political toll in the six months since he took office.

Asked if Mr. Mueller’s investigation would cross a red line if it expanded to look at his family’s finances beyond any relationship to Russia, Mr. Trump said, “I would say yes.” He would not say what he would do about it. “I think that’s a violation. Look, this is about Russia.”

While the interview touched on an array of issues, including health care, foreign affairs and politics, the investigation dominated the conversation. He said that as far as he knew, he was not under investigation himself, despite reports that Mr. Mueller is looking at whether the president obstructed justice by firing Mr. Comey.

“I don’t think we’re under investigation,” he said. “I’m not under investigation. For what? I didn’t do anything wrong.”

Describing a newly disclosed informal conversation he had with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during a dinner of world leaders in Germany earlier this month, Mr. Trump said they talked for about 15 minutes, mostly about “pleasantries.” But Mr. Trump did say that they talked “about adoptions.” Mr. Putin banned American adoptions of Russian children in 2012 after the United States enacted sanctions on Russians accused of human rights abuses, an issue that remains a sore point in relations with Moscow.

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lol
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I hope he's dumb enough to make a move against Mueller. Like really, how can he think it is a good idea to threaten the special investigator?

sessions gollum ass gets thrown under the bus by the Orange Turd!

Lel

You appointed him Donald, that shit is on YOU!

JFC he sucks as a leader.
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Ray_Dorset posted...

Like really, how can he think it is a good idea to threaten the special investigator?

He's deeply stupid. You ever hear that Werner Herzog bit about chickens? That's Trump.
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Why did he have an interview with NYT? I thought he considered them fake news?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/887845944678658048

hmm
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I ask this in all seriousness, what is stopping Trump from simply firing Mueller?
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Iodine posted...

I ask this in all seriousness, what is stopping Trump from simply firing Mueller?

*shrug*

Norms, I guess? Most of our government has functioned on unwritten rules for two centuries, but the problem with unwritten rules is...
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Iodine posted...

I ask this in all seriousness, what is stopping Trump from simply firing Mueller?

Watergate mostly I think.
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iamintents posted...

sessions gollum ass gets thrown under the bus by the Orange Turd!

Lel

You appointed him Donald, that shit is on YOU!

JFC he sucks as a leader.

Wtf is lel?

muchdran posted...

Wtf is lel?

An incredibly common substitute for lol.
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Antifar posted...

“Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else,”

the fuck he say
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https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/887853138409132032

My guess is this is little more than Trump's usual incoherence, but, uh. That's why it's good to have a president who makes sense.
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Why won't they take the fall for meeeee

Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/887853138409132032

My guess is this is little more than Trump's usual incoherence, but, uh. That's why it's good to have a president who makes sense.

I like how he has to stop himself before finishing the phrase "I didn't know nothing".
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Bumpblel
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