“It is a total witch hunt!” is one way of putting it but at this point, the constant handwringing and shrieking about how the Democrats are just sore losers is wearing thin.
In other fun news, he’s at least cooling his effusive praise for Russia, perhaps in light of this recent kerfuffle. Reuters reports that the “bromance”(their words, not mine) brewing between Putin and Trump has cooed as of late. There’s also talk of the job of top Russia adviser at the National Security council being offered to Russia scholar Fiona Hill, who has government experience and understands Russia, Bloomberg reports. Okay, fine, I’ll take it.
Meanwhile, Sessions showed up on Fox News and told Tucker Carlson Thursday that despite the report from the U.S. intelligence community about Vladimir Putin’s direct order to influence the 2016 election, he doesn’t know if they did it because they wanted Trump to win.
From the Washington Post:
“Did the campaign believe that the Russian government, the Putin government, favored Trump over Clinton in this race?” Carlson asked.
“I have never been told that,” Sessions responded.
“Do you think they did?” Carlson said.
“I don’t have any idea, Tucker, you’d have to ask them,” Sessions said.
The report in question stated that “Russia sought to help Trump win the presidency said Russia carried out an unprecedented cyber campaign, penetrating U.S. computer systems and relaying emails to WikiLeaks.” It was presented to a variety of people, including James Comey of the F.B.I. The F.B.I reports to the attorney general. Jeff Sessions is the attorney general.
Are you picking up what I’m putting down?
