Trump Thread II: The man make a tweet

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Spiritus Nox: Sep 2, 2011

Sessions' entire defense is that he hasn't got a loving clue what the agencies under his purview are doing

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Heck Yes! Loam!: Nov 15, 2004; a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

Did he just connect the russian intelligence to the campaign?

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:18

LaserShark: Oct 17, 2007; It's over, idiot. You're gonna die here and now, and the last words out of your mouth will have been 'poop train.'

So apparently we should never ever assume anything Trump says or does can be discussed because he might, at some point, invoke executive privilege on it.

...I'm kind of okay with that. Global silent treatment.

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HappyHippo: Nov 19, 2003; Do you have an Air Miles Card?

Spiritus Nox posted:

Sessions' entire defense is that he hasn't got a loving clue what the agencies under his purview are doing

The Gonzales defense

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:19

Filthy Hans: Jun 27, 2008; by Fluffdaddy
(and can't post for 10 years!)

LaserShark posted:

I know it doesn't, but how is it supposed to?

His excuse is that the President might eventually want to invoke executive privilege on the discussions he's had with Sessions, so Sessions answering those questions would preclude Trump from being able to do that. To date, Trump has not invoked executive privilege, so Sessions' move is absurd.

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DaveWoo: Aug 14, 2004; Fun Shoe

https://mobile.twitter.com/JDiamond1/status/874722577985490944

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Eltoasto: Aug 26, 2002; We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

Good hits by King, time for Lankford to cuddle with him.

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:20

Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

This whole strategy of declining to answer questions based on "The president has not invoked executive privilege but someday he might so my official answer is for you to go gently caress yourself" seems to be very effective

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:20

Bhaal: Jul 13, 2001; I ain't going down alone; Dr. Infant, MD

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

Did he just connect the russian intelligence to the campaign?

Yaaaarp god I wish these guys got more time because he is juggling too many falsehoods to keep them all straight if grilled long enough.

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:20

RoanHorse: Dec 12, 2013

1. If you aren't disclosing something because the president might at a later date refuse to disclose it, that's still executive privilege.

2. Holy poo poo he just implied that the campaign collided with Russia

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:20

Phil Moscowitz: Feb 19, 2007; If blood be the price of admiralty,
Lord God, we ha' paid in full!

Blowdryer posted:

more accurate

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:20

Javes: May 6, 2012; ASK ME ABOUT APPEARING OFFLINE SO I DON'T HAVE TO TELL FRIENDS THEY'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR MY VIDEO GAME TEAM.

Oklahoma is a hell realm.

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:20

Objurium: Aug 8, 2009

"Are you invoking executive privilege?"

"No, I can't do that."

"Has the President invoked Executive Privilege regarding your testimony?"

"No."

"Why aren't you answering questions?"

"I am protecting the ability of the president to command the futurepast divergent information timeline disappear. Through uh.... Executive Privilege. In the future. Of yesternow."

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:20

LaserShark: Oct 17, 2007; It's over, idiot. You're gonna die here and now, and the last words out of your mouth will have been 'poop train.'

Eltoasto posted:

Good hits by King, time for Lankford to cuddle with him.

"Might I continue that handjob for you, General Sessions?"
"Please, be my guest."

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:21

botany: Apr 27, 2013; by Lowtax

lmao

"there is a long history of governments not giving us information, and those cases have been overturned by the courts. somehow i think this is supposed to be helping you."

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Danyull: Jan 16, 2011

Flesh Forge posted:

This whole strategy of declining to answer questions based on "The president has not invoked executive privilege but someday he might so my official answer is for you to go gently caress yourself" seems to be very effective

Especially when Lankford takes the mic and immediately starts fondling his balls over it.

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Throwing Turtles: May 3, 2015

Time for the elf blow job sessions.

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Mind_Taker: May 7, 2007

Blowdryer posted:

This is going to be the reason Trump fires Sessions.

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Ratmtattat: Mar 10, 2004; the hairdryer

Lankford just throws out a lot of words he knows and hopes that it sounds smart enough.

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HappyHippo: Nov 19, 2003; Do you have an Air Miles Card?

HappyHippo posted:

The Gonzales defense

Oh man, I just found out something:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales posted:

His responses frustrated the Democrats on the committee, as well as several Republicans. One example of such frustration came in an exchange between Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Gonzales regarding a November 2006 meeting. Sessions is one of the most conservative members of the Senate, and was one of the Bush Administration's staunchest allies. At the meeting, the attorney firings were purportedly discussed, but Gonzales did not remember such discussion. As reported by the Washington Post, the dialogue went as follows:

GONZALES: Well, Senator, putting aside the issue, of course, sometimes people's recollections are different, I have no reason to doubt Mr. Battle's testimony [about the November meeting].

SESSIONS: Well, I guess I'm concerned about your recollection, really, because it's not that long ago. It was an important issue. And that's troubling to me, I've got to tell you.

GONZALES: Senator, I went back and looked at my calendar for that week. I traveled to Mexico for the inauguration of the new president. We had National Meth Awareness Day. We were working on a very complicated issue relating to CFIUS.

GONZALES: And so there were a lot of other weighty issues and matters that I was dealing with that week.[42]

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haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

RoanHorse posted:

2. Holy poo poo he just implied that the campaign collided with Russia

Typo, but not inaccurate

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Tzen: Sep 11, 2001

DaveWoo posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/874719159585841152

https://mobile.twitter.com/SimonMaloy/status/874721133068771329

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:22

Google Butt: Oct 4, 2005; Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

Does this chode think he's slick?

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:25

Springtime Goddess: Sep 2, 2006; oh no i put a stupid title text here when i registered in 2006 please how do i change it i am not good with computer

I wasn't paying attention, what was the implied collusion with Russian intelligence?

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Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Lankford testifies a whole bunch, also "Do you agree with that?"

"Yes Sen. Lankford sounds good"

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:26

90s Shoes: Jan 30, 2014

King: "Do you think Russians interfered with 2016 election?"
Sessions: "Appears so."
King: "But you never asked about it?"
Sessions: "No."

sort of stunned me

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:26

aware of dog: Nov 14, 2016

AbDomen posted:

I wasn't paying attention, what was the implied collusion with Russian intelligence?

He said he didn't request info on Russian hacking because it would look bad since he was a member of the Trump campaign

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Name Change: Oct 9, 2005

Google Butt posted:

Does this chode think he's slick?

Well imagine what kind of cretin you would have to be to back Trump early on before there was anything in it for you.

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:27

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theflyingorc posted:

I would agree with you if it weren't being a slow rollout, but it is.

I'd also agree with you if the senate map was the 2016 map, but the seats that are up are just terrible.

The ACA was also a slow rollout. The Dems are going to win Flake and Heller's seats in 2018. That puts them one death/retirement/scandal/Ted Cruz away from 51. it's doable.

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Madkal: Feb 11, 2008; Fallen Rib

Holy loving poo poo. So he says Russians colluded.

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:28

IUG: Jul 14, 2007

Madkal posted:

Holy loving poo poo. So he says Russians colluded.

I might be wrong, but I thought in his opening statement that he called this just a rumor or false.

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Zat: Jan 16, 2008

"I don't not recall any of those individuals having any meeting with Russian officials."

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Danyull: Jan 16, 2011

Seven "I don't recalls" in a row. Lucky that I'm watching this from work or I'd have made a drinking game out of this and started vomiting before 5 PM.

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idiotsavant: Jun 4, 2000

Hahahah who was the "doesn't seem like it"

# ? Jun 13, 2017 21:31

Heck Yes! Loam!: Nov 15, 2004; a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

did i just hear a "doesn't seem like it" on a mic?

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Flesh Forge: Jan 31, 2011; LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Ask about Roger Stone tho

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botany: Apr 27, 2013; by Lowtax

Madkal posted:

Holy loving poo poo. So he says Russians colluded.

i didn't hear that, what are you referring to?

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Filthy Hans: Jun 27, 2008; by Fluffdaddy
(and can't post for 10 years!)

Tom Cotton here to bring some legitimacy to the proceedings

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Pellisworth: Jun 20, 2005

gently caress you Cotton

"are you a super spy? how could you have done a collusion?"

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Google Butt: Oct 4, 2005; Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

Lmao what the gently caress

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