WTF? Now Trump is AGAINST investigating the FISA surveillance? (Trump-Sessions Feuding)

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Sessions pushes back on Trump after 'disgraceful' insult
Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions pushed back against President Donald Trump's latest insult on Wednesday, prolonging an increasingly awkward public spat between the President and his top law enforcement official.

Trump chastised Sessions over an investigation into alleged surveillance abuses, calling his approach "disgraceful."

"Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc," Trump wrote. "Isn't the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!"

Responding to Trump's tweet, the attorney general said in a statement that the Justice Department "initiated the appropriate process that will ensure complaints against this department will be fully and fairly acted upon if necessary."

"As long as I am the attorney general, I will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor, and this department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and Constitution," Sessions said.

Sessions had said Tuesday that the Justice Department is looking at whether the FBI has properly handled applications for surveillance orders under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Sessions, appearing at a news conference announcing a new opioid task force, was asked about House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes' controversial memo outlining purported surveillance abuses and told reporters that "the inspector general will take that as one of the matters he'll deal with."

The Justice Department's inspector general is Michael E. Horowitz, a longtime department official who has worked under Republican and Democrat administrations. He was confirmed for the inspector general job in 2012 under then-President Barack Obama.

While Trump is correct that Horowitz does not have prosecutorial powers, he can -- and often does -- make criminal referrals to the Justice Department based on his investigations. An investigation into improper FISA use would fall squarely onto Horowitz, too, given his charge instructs him to "investigate alleged violations of criminal and civil laws by DOJ employee."

Sessions chose to respond to the President because his latest jab was more "in the weeds" and about process, said a source familiar with Sessions' thinking.

Previous times, Trump has insulted Sessions when calling for the investigation of Hillary Clinton, but this time he called for Sessions to go after Justice Department attorneys, which was a bridge too far, said the source.

"There is a process, we are following that process," the source added.
As Sessions left the Billy Graham event in the Capitol on Wednesday, CNN asked for his response to Trump's tweet and criticism of him.
"I'm not commenting on that this morning. Thank you," he responded.
Asked if he has discussed the criticism directly with the President, Sessions just said, "Thanks."


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Trump's scathing tweet is the latest in a long line of public rebukes the President has leveled against his attorney general, a man who broke with much of his party to endorse Trump early in his presidential run.
Trump's anger toward Sessions stems from his decision to recuse himself from all investigations into the 2016 campaign, including special counsel Robert Mueller's expanding investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives bent on meddling in the election. Sessions made that decision after he did not fully answer questions during his confirmation hearing about his conversations with Russian diplomats during the 2016 campaign. Trump, in turn, has said he wouldn't have named Sessions to lead the Justice Department had he known he would have recused himself.

That animosity has played out publicly ever since.

Trump pestered Sessions for not looking into Hillary Clinton's deleted emails, slammed him for being "very weak" on Clinton's "crimes" and labeled him "beleaguered" in July.

As pressure mounted on Sessions last year, his standing in the administration appeared untenable to people inside the West Wing. During the first six months of Trump's presidency, Trump asked for Sessions' resignation, called the attorney general an "idiot" but then later declined to accept his attorney general's resignation letter.

Sessions has so far weathered the incessant incoming from the White House and sources close to the attorney general have told CNN that he is unlikely to go anywhere soon. But the saga between the two top Republicans has played out in public for much of Trump's first year in office and the President's chronic antipathy towards the top law enforcement official has defined Trump's view of the Justice Department.
Trump's anger boiled over in June, too, when the President pushed then-chief of staff Reince Priebus to obtain Sessions' resignation, according sources familiar with the exchange. Priebus later said that he talked Trump out of the firing.

The latest chapter in the saga between Trump and Sessions came just one week ago, when Trump challenged Sessions to launch an investigation into the Obama administration for failing to do enough to stop the 2016 election foreign interference.

"Question: If all of the Russian meddling took place during the Obama Administration, right up to January 20th, why aren't they the subject of the investigation?" Trump asked. "Why didn't Obama do something about the meddling? Why aren't Dem crimes under investigation? Ask Jeff Sessions!"


WHAAAAAAT?

It's almost confusing trying to figure out how to react. It feels like a dream, or walking underwater. This is unreal-- simply unreal. It's like something you'd see in an heavy-handed, excessively cynical, Off-Broadway political satire.

Going back eighteen months, this is the same man who wouldn't stfu about the FISA surveillance and his unfounded accusation that Obama was spying on him by wiretapping his personal lines (as at the Trump Tower, but of course it was Carter Page, not Trump, who the feds were monitoring). All of that is what led to the release of the hotly contested redacted memo, to which the Democrat's released a less redacted response, and now, suddenly, on the precipice of this controversy, he wants to call it off?

Are you fucking kidding me?
Separate reports today indicate that Mueller is now looking into Trump's finances relating to Russia including before the campaign.

Whoops, Donnie. You walked yourself into quite a pickle, here, didn't you? Must be dat 4D-Chess.
 
Donny wants no part of it. He just wants it all to go away.
 
Apparently he want Sessions himself to do the investigating not hand it off to "Obama's guy".
 
He wants a guy who swore loyalty to Trump to handle the "investigation" not the Obama guy.
 
It looks to me that Trump wants Sessions to use DOJ lawyers and not the IG. You should amend your op.
 
Maybe he's getting his wires crossed from all the bullshit he keeps peddling.
 
Sad day when I'm siding with Jeff Sessions.
Yep you know it's bad when Sessions is the sympathetic one. I hate him on a tier of "legitimate authority whose policy is untenable and even destructive." Trump has yet to achieve so high a reputation...
 
still despise Sessions more, doubt that will ever change

some hero needs to walk by him and blaze a blunt and blow it right in his face
 
If Mueller looks into Trumps finances, he is going to see a bunch of Russian clothes drying on the clothes line.
 
still despise Sessions more, doubt that will ever change

some hero needs to walk by him and blaze a blunt and blow it right in his face
And have your ass land in Gitmo or Colorado Supermax charged with deadly chemical weapon attack against the AG.
 
If Mueller looks into Trumps finances, he is going to see a bunch of Russian clothes drying on the clothes line.
I'm pretty sure it's not illegal to do business with Russians. Wouldn't prove a thing.
 
I honestly can't wait until Trump fires Sessions. It will be by far the best thing he has done.
 
This is unreal-- simply unreal. It's like something you'd see in an heavy-handed, excessively cynical, Off-Broadway political satire.

Tagline for a future movie about the Trump presidency.
 
I'm pretty sure it's not illegal to do business with Russians. Wouldn't prove a thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...trump-linked-to-russian-money-laundering-scam

See Donny was fresh off of 4 bankruptcies in 15 years. No American bank would loan him money because he fucked them all, much like his contractors.
Then Donny makes a huge sale of a house to a Russian Mafia boss way over value. Then suddenly gets loans from Duestche bank, when his credit rating was slightly above a crack heads.
Then Donny starts taking money for condos in projects, since he is now flush with Duestche bank dollars. Some of the sales are to the Russian mob, then Donny decides not to build said condos and fucks everyone out of the money. Russian Mobsters wash their money in phony condo complexes, and Trump can stop living off Trusts his Daddy set up for him.

No it is not illegal to do business with Russians, but it is illegal to launder the Russian Mobs money.
 
buried in this story is the announcement that they are finally gonna close the door on opiod suppliers and distributors....................long , long after the horse has bolted, and after they told investigators to back off the case the first time.
meanwhile half the country got hooked on em and lobbyists for the drug companies had a field day.
but its ok, trumpcare is gonna pay for treatment.........right?
 
Any way the wind blows, that's what Trumps opinion will be.
 
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