{"id":54847,"date":"2017-07-19T22:20:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T02:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/trump-i-wouldnt-have-appointed-jeff-sessions-if-i-knew-he-was-going-to-recuse-himself-from-russia-probe\/"},"modified":"2017-07-19T22:20:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T02:20:46","slug":"trump-i-wouldnt-have-appointed-jeff-sessions-if-i-knew-he-was-going-to-recuse-himself-from-russia-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/trump-i-wouldnt-have-appointed-jeff-sessions-if-i-knew-he-was-going-to-recuse-himself-from-russia-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: I Wouldn\u2019t Have Appointed Jeff Sessions If I Knew He Was Going to Recuse Himself from Russia Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump: I Wouldn\u2019t Have Appointed Jeff Sessions If I Knew He Was Going to Recuse Himself from Russia Probe<\/b><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump gave an interview to the New York Times<\/em> which revealed his thoughts on his suspicious second meeting with Vladimir Putin, special counsel Robert Mueller, James Comey, and Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n

The NYT reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cJeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, which frankly I think is very unfair to the president,\u201d he added. \u201cHow do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, \u2018Thanks, Jeff, but I\u2019m not going to take you.\u2019 It\u2019s extremely unfair \u2014 and that\u2019s a mild word \u2014 to the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump also faulted Mr. Sessions for his testimony during Senate confirmation hearings when Mr. Sessions said he had not met with any Russians even though he had met at least twice with Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak. \u201cJeff Sessions gave some bad answers,\u201d the president said. \u201cHe gave some answers that were simple questions and should have been simple answers, but they weren\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump also said that his second, private meeting with Putin was very brief and they discussed\u2026.adoption. He said that he believed former FBI Director James Comey held the Russia (golden showers) dossier over his head as leverage, and that he was open to firing special counsel Robert Mueller, particularly if his investigation veered from Russia into Trump\u2019s business dealings.<\/p>\n

In related news, three major figures in the Russia investigation \u2014 Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort \u2014 have been scheduled to testify<\/a> before congressional intelligence committees next week.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Trump: I Wouldn’t Have Appointed Jeff Sessions If I Knew He Was Going to Recuse Himself from Russia Probe<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n