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Exclusive: Trump ponders Rudy

artappraiser — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 23:10:23 +0000

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Exclusive: Trump ponders Rudy Giuliani for attorney general

By Mike Allen @ Axios.com, 9 hrs. ago

Which explains why I saw this at CNN a few hrs. ago:

Rudy Giuliani: Jeff Sessions 'made the right decision' to recuse from Russia probe

Trump is picking at Sessions

artappraiser — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:32:30 +0000

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Trump is picking at Sessions again:

Trump asks why ‘beleaguered’ Sessions isn’t investigating Clinton

@ Politico 07/24/2017 09:33 AM EDT,

(Could that mean he is thinking of making him a scapegoat?)

Also the article get into Trump trolling Adam Schiff with tweets, and on that, Politico has just posted this about how Schiff has responded: Schiff responds to Trump’s ‘sleazy’ tweet)

CNN leaves out key Trump team

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 11:41:00 +0000

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CNN leaves out key Trump team encounters with Kislyak - why? It ain't that tough. Count to 5, guys - even sloths can do it on 2 hands.

WaPo version on 1 Kislyak contact here.

A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from

artappraiser — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 03:11:37 +0000

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A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post,this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions.These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2017

Seth Abramson megathread on

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 04:57:00 +0000

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Seth Abramson megathread on Sessions-Kislyak.

My take is that

a) Kushner started the ball rolling in Mar 2016 with calls to set up Mayflower meeting [primarily for Rosneft oil deal]

b) @ secret April Mayflower meeting in front of Kislyak and others, Trump promised ( only slightly obliquely ) support on ending sanctions, not really needing an explicit "we'll do..." quid-pro-quo, though maybe (likely?) direct conversations with Kislyak were much more specific.

c) the June meeting with Trump Jr and Kushner wasn't to start things - it was a status meeting seeing if 2 days after Hillary's nomination the Russian spy/hacker/bot operation could deliver now on the anti-Hillary dirt & leaks, and whether the Trump team still knew their obligations.

d) Sessions followed up with Kislyak in person at both RNC meeting in July and later "forgotten" September meetup.

e) August - US intelligence briefs Trump on Russian hacks. Trump response? He never goes back for another intelligence briefing.

f) Trump's inviting Lavrov and Kislyak to the White House the day after firing Comey is perhaps the most incredible part of this, but of course we have it thanks to the Russians taking photos - what message were they sending?

How much more kompromat and revelations to go?

Also wondering what Sessions revelations does to the FBI confirmation hearings? In a sane world they'd stop and rewind. But it's not a sane world.

ETA: DNI Dan Coats caught on back feet weaving and bobbing and blabbing incoherently. This is our "intelligence" leadership?

ETAA: maybe Sessions fall from grace will have some long-needed fallout in Alabama and the rest of the South, where he's still strangely revered? Even Forrest Gump ran out of rocks.

Heh, Louise Mensch is over on

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 04:03:00 +0000

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Heh, Louise Mensch is over on twitter doing a victory lap - has been saying for a hal year IC has these types of recordings on Sessions and a number of others. If only she'd not intersperse it with goofy stuff like marshals with warrants spreading across DC that didnt happen... half good naterial, half Nancy Drew. Still, if you read with a skeptical eye, has some value..

WaPo video summary:

artappraiser — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 23:49:15 +0000

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WaPo video summary:

Sessions discussed Trump campaign matters with Russian ambassador, according to U.S. intercepts

Additional @ WaPo:

artappraiser — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 23:38:21 +0000

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Additional @ WaPo:

The Fix: Jeff Sessions just got in more trouble — and now he’s put Trump in a box, too