Trump calls on Sessions to end Russia probe 'right now'

[demmiblue]

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Wednesday said Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop the Russia investigation, which he dubbed a “Rigged Witch Hunt.”

“Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA,” he tweeted.

..This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2018

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/399841-trump-calls-on-sessions-to-end-russia-probe

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Link to tweet

[UpInArms]

1. "Cuz, i'm Skeeered!"

Shouts the Orange Menace!

[Left-over]

52. Yes he is, and guilty as he can possibly be

[mahina]

68. Buck up, Don the Con. Go change your Depends and have another line. Nothing

You can do will stop the wave of consequences coming your way.

You can resign, though, and you really should.

[Roy Rolling]

2. 17 now?

It was "13 angry democrats". Has four more joined?

[BumRushDaShow]

10. THIS THIS THIS

Took the words RIGHT outta my mouth!!!

[bitterross]

13. I noticed that too.

He just keeps upping the number.

[dchill]

15. They must be REPRODUCING!

[woodsprite]

64. Like Tribbles! Quick! Feed Mueller's team some more quadrotriticale! :)

I just wish his cabinet would tell him the jig is up and they're not going to do his bidding anymore.

I have absolutely no respect for any of the Repubs currently involved with him or any that continue to support him (that includes my MIL and SIL/BIL).

[SCVDem]

67. Of course that grain

Was inwented by Russian scientists. According to Chekov anyway!

[dchill]

75. Quadrotriticale, if I recall correctly.

[Harker]

76. He'll get to 57 soon. n/t

[unblock]

19. yes, mueller is adding 4 more prosecutors:

i doubt they're all democrats; and in any event, i seriously doubt donnie bothered to check their party affiliation, if any.
if they're prosecutors investigating him and his cronies, then he's going to label them as partisan because, well, that's what he does.



https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/22/1774575/-Special-Counsel-investigation-expands-with-addition-of-four-more-prosecutors

Friday June 22, 2018 · 3:21 PM EDT

Buzzfeed reporter Zoe Tillman notes that special counsel Robert Mueller has filed the paperwork to add four new prosecutors. All of them are to be assigned to prosecuting the case against Internet Research Agency, the Russian operation that both disseminated propaganda during the 2016 election through social media posts, false fronts for nonexistent organizations, and intentionally provocative ads. Among the prosecutors being added is Heather Alpino, who has worked on a number of cases involving international agents—including the prosecution of a Turkish national for arms smuggling and of Iranian hackers involved in credit fraud.

The addition of four additional lawyers represents a significant staffing up for this area of the investigation. It may suggest that additional information has been acquired, requiring more hands to deal with growing complexity. It may also suggest that some of those currently dealing with the case are needed for other areas of the investigation and those coming on board will act as backfill.

In either case, requiring additional attorneys would seem to indicate that the investigation into connections between the Trump campaign staff and foreign agents is continuing to expand.

[riversedge]

65. yes. I read about that. thanks for posting. good reminder 🌊🌊🌊 #FlipItBlue #BlueWave2018

[firstwife]

21. He needs to worry about

12 angry jurors. Or one good judge.

[oberliner]

26. Mueller Adds More DOJ Prosecutors to Russia Probe

Special counsel Robert Mueller is adding more Department of Justice prosecutors to his investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. The team is facing more court challenges than expected, officials told Bloomberg. His addition of more attorneys could be a sign he is preparing to pass parts of his investigation to others, officials told the outlet. He has already given the investigation into Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen to New York courts. Mueller’s team has spent $7.7 million since the probe began in 2017.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-adds-more-doj-prosecutors-to-russia-probe

[Docreed2003]

31. It's be hundreds by Xmas

[lagomorph777]

77. Actually, it's hundreds of millions of angry Dems right now.

And we are out for electoral blood.

[jayschool2013]

33. Yeah, that's the ticket

[Fozzledick]

91. Illuminati numerology - look for 23 next.

[Scarsdale]

3. Spanky is getting worried.

I am certain Bob Mueller is quaking in his boots! Never has a person shown his guilt as blatantly as tRump has done for his entire "reign of terror" The followers may buy this, but nobody with a brain will believe this is a witch hunt. A TRUTH hunt is more like it, and getting closer daily.

[forgotmylogin]

39. I'm not stained. Are you stained?

I guess the stain comes from sleeping around with porn stars and needing to pay them off on the eve of an important election. Or...laundering Russian Oligarch money... Or breaking federal laws. Or burning the ladder behind you because you believe you have no more need for your law-breaking Minions. That's all you, Li'l Dick Don.

[louis c]

4. This tweet is a prima facie case of obstruction of justice (NT)

[yallerdawg]

7. It sure is!

The current occupant of the White House is becoming more unhinged daily!

[2naSalit]

8. Lovely isn't it?

He's got so much rope he can't see over the pile... hangin's too good for these criminals anyway.

[jmowreader]

84. Hanging might be too good for him...

...but burning at the stake, stoning, beheading, using as great white shark bait, hara-Kiri, putting him in the Ohio head ripping off machine, shooting with antiaircraft guns, running over his head with a bulldozer, throwing him out of a helicopter over the Mekong Delta, drowning in a tank of Democrats’ urine, Russian roulette, Republican roulette (same game except you use an automatic pistol) or any other means of ridding the world of him is considered cruel and unusual punishment.

[luvallpeeps]

92. no you didn't!

Republican roulette. Same as Russian roulette except you use an automatic pistol.

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[firstwife]

16. That was my first take on it.

[aggiesal]

55. Welcome to DU! ...

[steve2470]

22. exactly

Trump is too fucking stupid to go in private to Sessions to tell him or ask him to do this. He thinks broadcasting it to the world will put more pressure on Sessions, which in reality will backfire unless Sessions goes against past behavior.

[Oneironaut]

23. And the arrogant dumbass puts it on Twitter, so there's a permanent record of it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

43. Which Mueller is duly noting.

And to which Trump is aware that Mueller is duly noting, but being an impulsive narcissist, he's just going to continue keeping on keeping on.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. "I am United States Senator John Yerkes Iselin, and I have here...."

[Iliyah]

6. Shithole has already started with the violence

talk for this cult to do more harm to their fellow Americans. t-rump is the ultimate "ugly" American.

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. He has the ugly part cover.

[bdamomma]

42. not an

"ugly" American how about an "ugly" Russian.

[George II]

11. Some of the responses are hysterical:

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[firstwife]

18. The only one who's going to be cooing

is the jailbird!

[Docreed2003]

32. Coo...cooo...lmao

[forgotmylogin]

41. "Coo...coo...gotchu, treasonweasel!"

--Robert Mueller, probably.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

45. A coo attempt, you say?

(By the way, I'm sure that dove went full eagle on Trump's ass once the picture was snapped.)

[Stuart G]

12. President Trump belongs in a garbage dump..

He cannot just keep quiet. Why doesn't he just close the tweet machine for a few days and take a rest...

That rest will do him some good, and it will sure help the entire nation.

[blugbox]

28. HAHAHA at first I thought you were making a poem!!

pResident tRump belongs in a garbage dump

He just cannot keep quiet.

Why doesn't he just stop the Tweets

Before he starts a riot.

Haha somebody gimme a second verse!

[jayschool2013]

37. A limerick for you

There once was a douchebag from Queens
Who sneaked up on near-naked teens
He wasn't elected
But instead was selected
By Putin and other Russian fiends

[blugbox]

49. Haha perfect!

Well played!

Man, this asshole is forcing creative hatred out of the populace haha

[Dave Starsky]

73. Nice.

There once was a puppet named Trump
Who tried the political stump
When asked why'd he do it
He said, "Nothing to it.
I've got Putin's hand up my rump!"

[jayschool2013]

74. BOOM!!

Shakalaka.

[LudwigPastorius]

85. A punk with an ego so yuge

Tried his tiny hand at subterfuge
He repeats the delusion
There was no collusion
But, it’s clear he is Vladimir’s stooge

[jayschool2013]

86. LOL

We're on a roll, I tell ya.

[turbinetree]

17. It was 13 democrats now its 17 ...................hey asshole...........................how about

65 million.............................your a fucking illegitimate president your a fucking loser, with a BIGLY L, and to top it all off, you committed a conspiracy to commit TREASON ........................with BIGLY T...........................and has for terrible situation...................you created it it ...................you and your fucking lackey's..................


You are fucking toast.........with the orange marmalade .................


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough........................vote

[Achilleaze]

20. The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is profoundly afraid

as is customary for republican coward.

[jb5150]

24. That unhinged orange asshole's heart attack

can't come soon enough .....

[watoos]

25. The only stain

is on Trump's Purdy white undies. He for sure has been shitting his pants and it's only the 1st quarter of the game and Trump is punting back to Mueller again. Turns out Rudy is too old and slow to play defensive end.
Wait until Mueller starts calling blitzes on Trump it will be pure panic.

[Obvious85]

27. Isn't this tweet the classic definition of OBSTRUCTION?

Add it to the list, Mueller

[Ccarmona]

29. Needless to Say, but Trump's His Own Worst Enemy

I have some liberal friends who hate that that CNN & MSNBC Spend so much time on “Russia & Mueller”. But it’s #45 who keeps it in the news. If he’d just shut up for two seconds, maybe the two cable News outlets would be free to chase other stories.

[Racerdog1]

30. Orange shitwad

Knows the end of his treasonous ass is near. Hanging is too good for this worthless fuck.

[oberliner]

34. Does Sessions have the authority to do that?

[blugbox]

54. Normally yes

But sessions has supposedly already recused himself from the Russia investigation, thus leaving Rosenstein in charge.

This may be the moment where trump is publicly forcing sessions to fire Rosenstein or trump will fire sessions. Who knows what these fools are thinking or planning.

[oberliner]

56. Only Trump himself can fire Rosenstein

[blugbox]

63. He must be "playing to the crowd" again then

And flailing his hardest to pin it on sessions

After all, trump is never wrong, so it MUST be somebody else's fault. Even when it's fully in his hands.

I just hope these are all adding to Obstruction of Justice charges.

[muriel_volestrangler]

35. That it's produced guilty pleas, indictments of many Russians, and an ongoing trial

are surely only proof of how fake it all is!!!!!!

[B Stieg]

36. Resign, traitor.

The only words this guy needs to hear.
It's time to self-deport, Mr. President*.

[kentuck]

38. If Sessions refuses, he's gone.

August always is a hot and unpredictable time in Washington.

[DinahMoeHum]

61. Which would be no great loss. . .

. . .Unlike Mueller and Rosenstein, his firing/resignation would not be the sign to demonstrate in the streets, per MoveOn.

https://www.trumpisnotabovethelaw.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response/search/?from=@

[D23MIURG23]

89. I stopped inferring any strategy or underlying motive to this kind of outburst a long time ago.

It's just spanky having another tantrum. Now that he's shot his load all over twitter, his handlers will be able to contain his behavior until he works himself into a froth again next week.

[Joe Nation]

40. Yeah, we need a justice system where those being investigated should...

...be able to end the investigation.....NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gademocrat7]

44. Chump is becoming more unhinged everyday.

He need to be held accountable for the crimes he has committed against our country. Conspiring with a foreign hostile entity and his cruel immigration policies are beyond the pale.

[NastyRiffraff]

46. How about 65 million angry Democrats

and Independents, even some Republicans who voted for your sorry ass. I get that you're scared, Donny, and you should be.

[Botany]

47. Every time Trump calls it a witch hunt he is lying

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/world/europe/trump-intelligence-russian-election-meddling-.html

July 18, 2018

WASHINGTON — Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 American election.

The evidence included texts and emails from Russian military officers and information gleaned from a top-secret source close to Mr. Putin, who had described to the C.I.A. how the Kremlin decided to execute its campaign of hacking and disinformation.

Mr. Trump sounded grudgingly convinced, according to several people who attended the intelligence briefing. But ever since, Mr. Trump has tried to cloud the very clear findings that he received on Jan. 6, 2017, which his own intelligence leaders have unanimously endorsed.

[TubbersUK]

48. Maybe he's come to realise that Donald Jr is in real jeopardy ?

Which is what some on Twitter are assuming.


His fear has certainly gone up a level.

[ET Awful]

50. Sounds like the ending of a movie I saw once - had Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford and Hal Holbrook

Wish I could remember the name of that movie.

[still_one]

51. and what happens if Session's does that? What is the remedy, unless Congress intervenes?

[SummerSnow]

53. That tweet screams obstruction!!! Is he really that stoopid? Um yeah!

[CanonRay]

57. He's literally pissing in his pants.

[LonePirate]

58. Keep in mind that he is informed of things days/seems in advance.

He was informed of the recent Russian indictments at least four days ahead of Rosenstein’s public announcement of them. He (or his team) could very well be ranting about something coming down the pipe that is not yet public knowledge.

[honest.abe]

59. I think the Trump "strategy" now is simply to rile up his base.

The angrier they get, the less likely the Republicans in congress will do anything even if Mueller presents them with a pile of irrefutable evidence Trump and members of his crime family broke the law.

They know the hammer is coming down soon and hard and their only hope is keep brainwashing their supporters in the hope that once the indictments come down they will rise up and defend Trump to such an extent that the GOP will be afraid to do anything about it.

Not sure that is going to work but I think they think that is their only/best option now.

[thesquanderer]

60. I suspect Trump does not know what "conflicted" means. (n/t)

[WePurrsevere]

62. The thing is that the power is Trump's to end it...

Trump knows he could end it but he CHOOSES not to. So the question is, why doesn't he?

I suppose that it could be because it might make him look more guilty than he already does but I honestly don't think he cares about looking good or innocent or he'd have shut up long ago. I tend to think he doesn't stop it because it keeps his Cult45 suckers riled up, going to his ego stroking rallies and donating.

Narcissists as severe as Trump will do darn near anything to get their ego stroked. They're totally convinced that they're infallible and perfect and Trump, white his rich white privilege, has never had to truly face any real repercussions for his bad behaviour/criminal actions so he thinks he immune.

[CozyMystery]

70. I don't think he is afraid either.

He's gotten away with so much during his life, that he thinks he won't get caught. Or if he does, he can pardon himself. Or have Pence do it.

Plus, I think he is psychopath, which would mean he doesn't feel fear.

I agree that his intention is to rile up his supporters. He wants them to vote for the KGOP to keep them in power, and to re-elect him. The money comes in handy, too.

[WePurrsevere]

80. Agree. I think Putin's laughing his ass off. I'm going to guess...

He wasn't expecting his 'investment' to pay off in such high dividends.

[MontanaMama]

66. "Coo" attempt...

Stop it!!!!

[riversedge]

69. Sessions has recused himself. But can he un recuse himself???

............Democrats slammed Trump's tweet.

"This is an attempt to obstruct justice hiding in plain sight," tweeted Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

Ben Rhodes, former foreign policy adviser to President Barack Obama, tweeted: "This is what the Republican Party supports - a relentless attack on the rule of law by the President of the United States to enable the continued Russian invasion of our democracy."

Even if Sessions was willing to act on Trump's demands, it's unclear what steps he could take. The attorney general has recused himself from the Russia investigation because he played a role in Trump's presidential campaign. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has also been attacked by Trump, is Mueller's supervisor, and has consistently defended the special counsel's work.

[cannabis_flower]

71. What are you going to do if he doesn't Donnie

Fire him?

[UCmeNdc]

72. In other words, I'm guilty.

[NCjack]

78. Time for Donnie to reduce his pain and RESIGN. nt

[Pachamama]

79. Someone may want to tell Comrade Trumpsky that "Obstruction of Justice" is a crime.....

[LudwigPastorius]

81. Sessions is a member of your cabinet, Spanky.

You could...I don't know...call him, or something, instead of tweeting at him.

[Hekate]

82. Sessions will have to be fired; Beauregard is enjoying his personal agenda too much to quit...

Jefferson Beauregard Seasions twinkles and giggles when he talks about tearing up families and tossing children to the four winds. Quotes the Bible.

I don't know what he will do about Mueller's investigation -- but I've figured out why he has not quit.

[duforsure]

83. Congress needs now to pass protections for Mueller

From being stopping , hindered, or obstructed, period, or face co-conspiracy charges along with him. Are they hiding their involvement with Russia and putin too? Sure looks like it.

[Snellius]

87. He's going to try to shut Mueller down. To fire AG.

This tweet is too bizarre. He knows Sessions will never do it. He's just laying the pr groundwork for firing Sessions and make room for a new AG who has not recused himself.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

88. We'll get right on that bloatard

Did you hear how obstructing an investigation worked out so well for Nixon?

[orangecrush]

90. Panic mode

Paying close attention, he may make a serious mistake at this point.