Trump Attacks Sessions Over Handling of Surveillance Abuse Allegations (suspect, high school, claim)

[RosieSD]

I wonder if Sessions will need to recluse himself again if a special counsel is assigned to investigate Carter Page's FISA warrant.

After all, Carter Page's warrant was tied to investigating Russia, and Sessions had to recluse himself from Mueller's investigation.

So, if the President gets his way, wouldn't any special counsel to investigate Page's FISA warrant have to also be appointed by Rosenstein?

[dothetwist]

Sessions has issued a statement telling trump he will continue as AG to follow the law. It's a rather mild statement BUT it is the FIRST time Sessions has responded publicly to a trump tweet.

[SoloforLife]

Originally Posted by Hesychios

I have never heard of any other president lambasting his own people in public like that. It is strange.

Trambo just finished rushing in to a school to stop a mass murderer. Now he needs to attack someone else.

[vacoder]

Originally Posted by dothetwist

Sessions has issued a statement telling trump he will continue as AG to follow the law. It's a rather mild statement BUT it is the FIRST time Sessions has responded publicly to a trump tweet.

If the lil leprechaun had a spine he would have quit already.

[RosieSD]

Originally Posted by vacoder

If the lil leprechaun had a spine he would have quit already.

Be careful what you wish for. At this point, we'll likely end up far worse off if Sessions did quit. I hope he has the stomach to stick it out, at least until Mueller's investigation concludes.

[Redd Jedd]

Originally Posted by RosieSD

Worth reading:

FACT CHECK: Trump's Tweet About The Inspector General

The article goes step by step to fact check the assertions made by the President in his tweets this morning about the Inspector General and, by extension, Sessions.

I think this paragraph from the article link you posted pretty much sums things up:

The background: What Trump apparently wants is for Sessions to launch a full-scale criminal investigation into the applications the FBI and Justice Department made in 2016 to conduct surveillance on his onetime campaign adviser, Carter Page.

Trump is still so desperate for some sort of "official" finding that there was NO COLLUSION. NO COLLUSION. Which is why every time an indictment or new story comes out that specifically does not contend there was collusion, but also does not specifically contend there was not any collusion, Trump immediately Tweets, "NO COLLUSION. NO COLLUSION" before he realizes that particular event really did not help his case.

[ipaper]

I wonder how all his die hard supporters, here on CD going to spend that one.

[daylux]

With one tweet, Trump got the press to talk about the Obama administration's surveillance FISA abuse against an incoming president.

[vacoder]

Originally Posted by daylux

With one tweet, Trump got the press to talk about the Obama administration's surveillance FISA abuse against an incoming president.

And that helped anyone how?

[Redd Jedd]

Originally Posted by vacoder

And that helped anyone how?

As always, it helped Trump. It took attention away from his misdeeds for a minute.