Leading Democrats call for Attorney General Sessions' resignation after learning he lied about Russian ties

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on Wednesday called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign after reporters that he spoke with Russian ambassador Sergery Kislyak twice during the 2016 presidential campaign, despite testifying under oath that he did not have communications with the Russians.

“When Senator Sessions testified under oath that ‘I did not have communications with the Russians,’ his statement was demonstrably false, yet he let it stand for weeks,” Cummings said in a statement. “He continued to let it stand even as he watched the President tell the entire nation he didn’t know anything about anyone advising his campaign talking to the Russians.”

House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) also called for Sessions’ resignation, releasing a statement insisting Attorney General “Sessions is not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country.”

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who Wednesday revealed that the House Intelligence Committee will officially investigate the Trump campaign’s contact with Russian officials, said it’s “essential” that Session recuse himself from any investigation into the president’s ties to the Kremlin.

“This is not even a close call: it is a must,” Schiff wrote in a statement.

Original Quill wrote:Republicans lie...it's what they do, and they don't even see anything wrong with it.  They even suppose, unjustifiably, that Democrats lie...even though that is only their hope.  Democrats have no need to lie.

The Russian nation is run by what is descriptively called the Russian Mafia.  The Russian Mafia was formed by what were originally known as KGB agents.  If that seems far-fetched, ask yourself who was the former head of the KGB, and who is president of Russia today.

Now an element of the US has overtaken the Republican Party, and aligned with the Russian Mafia.  What do you expect.  Crooks lie...it's what they do.  We must expect nothing but corruption and dishonesty by an enterprise governing the US...and headed by the Russian Mafia.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Original Quill wrote:Republicans lie...it's what they do, and they don't even see anything wrong with it.  They even suppose, unjustifiably, that Democrats lie...even though that is only their hope.  Democrats have no need to lie.

The Russian nation is run by what is descriptively called the Russian Mafia.  The Russian Mafia was formed by what were originally known as KGB agents.  If that seems far-fetched, ask yourself who was the former head of the KGB, and who is president of Russia today.

Now an element of the US has overtaken the Republican Party, and aligned with the Russian Mafia.  What do you expect.  Crooks lie...it's what they do.  We must expect nothing but corruption and dishonesty by an enterprise governing the US...and headed by the Russian Mafia.

That's why the flag's flying upside-down on NewsFix

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

That's why the flag's flying upside-down on NewsFix

Ben, politicians lie.,,,it's what, realistically, we expect of them. Not for nothing do we have an old saying here: Q: How do you know when a politician is lying? A: When his mouth is open.

Original Quill wrote:

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Ben, politicians lie.,,,it's what, realistically, we expect of them. Not for nothing do we have an old saying here: Q: How do you know when a politician is lying? A: When his mouth is open.

That's the conservative line.  It's a platitude fabricated to cover-up the fact that conservatives lie.  Oh, everyone does it...don't look over here, look over there!  You can almost feel the intent.

Analyze the situation: Conservatives like Republicans are not just a different brand of politics, but a different breed of politics.  They differ not just in their approach or beliefs, but in what they intend to accomplish by engaging in politics.  An account holder enters a bank to make a deposit; a bank robber has an altogether different reason for entering a bank.  The bank robber is a different breed.  You can't just glibly say, they all want to rob the place.

While Liberals and Progressives represent the general interest, conservatives and Republicans represent special interests.  The model underlying the liberal/progressive perspective is a fair and equal exchange for everyone.  The model underlying the conservative perspective is that of a clever thief out to steal the other man's purse.  Thus, the liberal/progressive thinks in ways that benefit everyone; while the conservative thinks in ways that applaud trickery and deceit.  These are the themes, you will see, that continually percolate up from each side: fairness vs. trickery and deceit.

Trickery and deceit inevitably involve deception (indeed, deceit and deception are the same word).  Thus it is fairer to think of lying as a part of the conservative model, and the allegation they all do it... as a conservative cover-up of the truth.

The fact is, they don't all do it.  The liberal/progressive model has nothing to gain by lying.  He's not trying to hide anything.

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

That's the conservative line.  It's a platitude fabricated to cover-up the fact that conservatives lie.  Oh, everyone does it...don't look over here, look over there!  You can almost feel the intent.

Analyze the situation: Conservatives like Republicans are not just a different brand of politics, but a different breed of politics.  They differ not just in their approach or beliefs, but in what they intend to accomplish by engaging in politics.  An account holder enters a bank to make a deposit; a bank robber has an altogether different reason for entering a bank.  The bank robber is a different breed.  You can't just glibly say, they all want to rob the place.

While Liberals and Progressives represent the general interest, conservatives and Republicans represent special interests.  The model underlying the liberal/progressive perspective is a fair and equal exchange for everyone.  The model underlying the conservative perspective is that of a clever thief out to steal the other man's purse.  Thus, the liberal/progressive thinks in ways that benefit everyone; while the conservative thinks in ways that applaud trickery and deceit.  These are the themes, you will see, that continually percolate up from each side: fairness vs. trickery and deceit.

Trickery and deceit inevitably involve deception (indeed, deceit and deception are the same word).  Thus it is fairer to think of lying as a part of the conservative model, and the allegation they all do it... as a conservative cover-up of the truth.

The fact is, they don't all do it.  The liberal/progressive model has nothing to gain by lying.  He's not trying to hide anything.

One of the biggest and most damaging of lies in recent times was the one told to the United Kingdom Parliament and people by Tony Blair, Prime Minster. The result was that we were dragged into an illegal war - his own Attorney General's opinion was that the Iraq invasion was illegal...until he was leaned on and forced to, er, re-consider, by Blair's "sofa cabinet" and the Machiavellian spin doctors Mandelson and and Campbell.

Far from being conservatives, or even Conservatives with a capital "C", they were Labour. Socialists. Left Wing. So-called Liberal Progressives.

Labour politicians, including many with impeccable Left Wing backgrounds, were prominent  among those who lied, cheated, defrauded and thieved during the major UK Parliament expenses scandal. Four of them, including a Minister,  were jailed, and a fifth got off because "she was ill." They were Socialists. Left Wing. So-called Liberal Progressives.

I could go on and on.......

Socialism is rotten to the core with mendacity and self-interest. Just like the Conservatives.

It may well be different in the USA, but somehow, I doubt it.

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Ben, politicians lie.,,,it's what, realistically, we expect of them. Not for nothing do we have an old saying here: Q: How do you know when a politician is lying? A: When his mouth is open.

That's the conservative line.  It's a platitude fabricated to cover-up the fact that conservatives lie.  Oh, everyone does it...don't look over here, look over there!  You can almost feel the intent.

Analyze the situation: Conservatives like Republicans are not just a different brand of politics, but a different breed of politics.  They differ not just in their approach or beliefs, but in what they intend to accomplish by engaging in politics.  An account holder enters a bank to make a deposit; a bank robber has an altogether different reason for entering a bank.  The bank robber is a different breed.  You can't just glibly say, they all want to rob the place.

While Liberals and Progressives represent the general interest, conservatives and Republicans represent special interests.  The model underlying the liberal/progressive perspective is a fair and equal exchange for everyone.  The model underlying the conservative perspective is that of a clever thief out to steal the other man's purse.  Thus, the liberal/progressive thinks in ways that benefit everyone; while the conservative thinks in ways that applaud trickery and deceit.  These are the themes, you will see, that continually percolate up from each side: fairness vs. trickery and deceit.

Trickery and deceit inevitably involve deception (indeed, deceit and deception are the same word).  Thus it is fairer to think of lying as a part of the conservative model, and the allegation they all do it... as a conservative cover-up of the truth.

The fact is, they don't all do it.  The liberal/progressive model has nothing to gain by lying.  He's not trying to hide anything.

One of the biggest and most damaging of lies in recent times was the one told to the United Kingdom Parliament and people by Tony Blair, Prime Minster. The result was that we were dragged into an illegal war - his own Attorney General's opinion was that the Iraq invasion was illegal...until he was leaned on and forced to, er, re-consider, by Blair's "sofa cabinet" and the Machiavellian spin doctors Mandelson and and Campbell.

Far from being conservatives, or even Conservatives with a capital "C", they were Labour. Socialists. Left Wing. So-called Liberal Progressives.

Labour politicians, including many with impeccable Left Wing backgrounds, were prominent  among those who lied, cheated, defrauded and thieved during the major UK Parliament expenses scandal. Four of them, including a Minister,  were jailed, and a fifth got off because "she was ill." They were Socialists. Left Wing. So-called Liberal Progressives.

I could go on and on.......

Socialism is rotten to the core with mendacity and self-interest. Just like the Conservatives.

It may well be different in the USA, but somehow, I doubt it. The Democrat Bill Clinton's name springs immediately to mind: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

Original Quill wrote:Republicans lie...it's what they do, and they don't even see anything wrong with it.  They even suppose, unjustifiably, that Democrats lie...even though that is only their hope.  Democrats have no need to lie.

The Russian nation is run by what is descriptively called the Russian Mafia.  The Russian Mafia was formed by what were originally known as KGB agents.  If that seems far-fetched, ask yourself who was the former head of the KGB, and who is president of Russia today.

Now an element of the US has overtaken the Republican Party, and aligned with the Russian Mafia.  What do you expect.  Crooks lie...it's what they do.  We must expect nothing but corruption and dishonesty by an enterprise governing the US...and headed by the Russian Mafia.

That's why the flag's flying upside-down on NewsFix

Ben, politicians lie.,,,it's what, realistically, we expect of them. Not for nothing do we have an old saying here: Q: How do you know when a politician is lying? A: When his mouth is open.

nicko wrote:Can you, or anyone else prove that? or is it all talk?

nicko wrote:Can you, or anyone else prove that? or is it all talk?

Palmer Report wrote:Dmitry Rybolovlev, who keeps flying in to meet Donald Trump, owns Russian money laundering bank
By Bill Palmer | February 28, 2017

Over the past weeks, Palmer Report has been reporting on the mysterious round-the-world gallivanting of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who spends most of his time at his home in Monaco but has a habit of flying into whatever city Donald Trump happens to be visiting at the time. And thanks to an exposed multibillion dollar money laundering scheme on the part of a bank that’s closely tied financially to both Rybolovlev and Trump, we think we know why.

As we’ve been documenting this month, whenever Donald Trump has left the White House and ventured anywhere, Dmitry Rybolovlev (aka the “Russian King of Fertilizer”) has tended to show up in the same city. It happened during Trump’s victory tour in Concord, North Carolina, a place Rybolovlev had no legitimate reason to be. It happened again when Trump vacationed in West Palm Beach, even though that required Rybolovlev to fly all the way in from Switzerland. That was also the time that Trump deposited reporters in a semi-submerged basement of his resort with black plastic covering the the windows.

That only leaves two possibilities. One is that Trump and Rybolovlev just happen to have a remarkably coincidental travel schedule, and that while Rybolovlev was in West Palm Beach, Trump went out of his way to make sure the press couldn’t see what was going on at his resort for no real reason. The other is that Trump and Rybolovlev have been meeting up whenever Trump ventures away from the White House. The latter possibility has long been bolstered by the fact that Trump sold Rybolovlev a mansion a few years ago that neither of them lived in nor cared about, suggesting the sale was mere cover for shifting money from Russia to Trump. And that theory just got bolstered significantly, thanks to a new breakthrough.

Earlier this month we brought you the story of Deutsche Bank in Germany getting busted for laundering more than ten billion dollars out of Russia and into places like New York. This stood out because Deutsche has also loaned more than a billion dollars to Donald Trump, who just happens to be based out of New York, even at a time when the bank was struggling and Trump was viewed as a poor loan risk by every other bank out there.

It turns out Deutsche was funneling that money through Bank of Cyprus. Guess who owns a 9.9% share in Bank of Cyprus? Dmitry Rybolovlev. So we can now draw a direct line of more than a billion dollars flowing from Russia, through Rybolovlev, to Donald Trump.

We can’t yet prove that the money Russia laundered through Deutsche and Cyprus was the same exact money that Deutsche then loaned to Trump. But when we find that proof, it’ll be the smoking gun proving Russia has been financing Trump all along. And it explains why Dmitry Rybolovlev keeps flying halfway around the world to meet with Donald Trump whenever he escapes the White House – he appears to be the handler for Trump’s Russian finances. Contribute to Palmer Report

https://www.palmerreport.com/news/dmitry-rybolovlev-who-keeps-flying-in-to-meet-donald-trump-owns-russian-money-laundering-bank/1692/

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

That's the conservative line.  It's a platitude fabricated to cover-up the fact that conservatives lie.  Oh, everyone does it...don't look over here, look over there!  You can almost feel the intent.

Analyze the situation: Conservatives like Republicans are not just a different brand of politics, but a different breed of politics.  They differ not just in their approach or beliefs, but in what they intend to accomplish by engaging in politics.  An account holder enters a bank to make a deposit; a bank robber has an altogether different reason for entering a bank.  The bank robber is a different breed.  You can't just glibly say, they all want to rob the place.

While Liberals and Progressives represent the general interest, conservatives and Republicans represent special interests.  The model underlying the liberal/progressive perspective is a fair and equal exchange for everyone.  The model underlying the conservative perspective is that of a clever thief out to steal the other man's purse.  Thus, the liberal/progressive thinks in ways that benefit everyone; while the conservative thinks in ways that applaud trickery and deceit.  These are the themes, you will see, that continually percolate up from each side: fairness vs. trickery and deceit.

Trickery and deceit inevitably involve deception (indeed, deceit and deception are the same word).  Thus it is fairer to think of lying as a part of the conservative model, and the allegation they all do it... as a conservative cover-up of the truth.

The fact is, they don't all do it.  The liberal/progressive model has nothing to gain by lying.  He's not trying to hide anything.

One of the biggest and most damaging of lies in recent times was the one told to the United Kingdom Parliament and people by Tony Blair, Prime Minster. The result was that we were dragged into an illegal war - his own Attorney General's opinion was that the Iraq invasion was illegal...until he was leaned on and forced to, er, re-consider, by Blair's "sofa cabinet" and the Machiavellian spin doctors Mandelson and and Campbell.

Far from being conservatives, or even Conservatives with a capital "C", they were Labour. Socialists. Left Wing. So-called Liberal Progressives.

Labour politicians, including many with impeccable Left Wing backgrounds, were prominent  among those who lied, cheated, defrauded and thieved during the major UK Parliament expenses scandal. Four of them, including a Minister,  were jailed, and a fifth got off because "she was ill." They were Socialists. Left Wing. So-called Liberal Progressives.

I could go on and on.......

Socialism is rotten to the core with mendacity and self-interest. Just like the Conservatives.

It may well be different in the USA, but somehow, I doubt it. The Democrat Bill Clinton's name springs immediately to mind: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."