Even Republicans assume Trump leaked Kislyak intercepts to force out Jeff Sessions
After The Washington Post was leaked intercepted communications on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the internet immediately began wondering if Donald Trump’s administration was the source of the release.
Who had both the means and motives to leak intercepted spy documents to The Washington Post?
Every GOP figure I've spoken to at #AspenSecurity assumes Trump leaked this to force Sessions out. "Certainly not a Mueller leak," one said. https://t.co/5WjsCLkQks
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) July 21, 2017
Irresistible question: could Trump team have leaked the kislyak intercepts to push Sessions out after he failed to resign yesterday? https://t.co/azUnBSJL5j
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 21, 2017
Well, here's Trump's excuse to fire Sessions and get a stooge successor who'll fire Mueller https://t.co/629qGse43r
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 21, 2017
Watch for Trump sycophants in the GOP calling for Sessions to resign. That would be a sign pointing to yes.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 21, 2017
.@hughhewitt on Sessions: “If it’s true, I think the Attorney General will have to resign.” https://t.co/3z8xNTnijT
— Hardball (@hardball) July 21, 2017
I am on the verge of publishing something that says it makes sense it was TRUMP people who leaked info on Sessions, not the DEEP STATE
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) July 21, 2017
To paraphrase Marion Barry, "Trump set me up!" Leak conveniently allows Sessions to quit/be fired, Trump can sub in unconflicted stooge https://t.co/iCClwlWAcx
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) July 21, 2017
Targets Sessions, not Trump. And didn't you say he knew what he was doing when he did the interview? This is the perfect follow up
— Lolo (@LoloAnneG) July 21, 2017
"SOMEBODY TAKE THIS ORANGE F'IN KNIFE OUT OF MY BACK!"
Jeff Sessions
— Mark E. Lewis (@MLewisCreative) July 22, 2017
Is Trump playing chicken with Sessions so he can install an AG who hasn't recused?
— WindUpBird (@MickieMo) July 21, 2017
Whether or not these leaked intercepts result in AG Sessions resigning or being fired, the revelations were stunning beyond the fact many concluded the Trump administration was the likely source of the disclosures.
Here’s what others gleaned from Friday’s bombshell report in The Washington Post:
As news breaks of Jeff Sessions' campaign-related talks w/ Kislyak…Here is his sworn testimony claiming he had no communications w/ Russians pic.twitter.com/3A1qHY5OJp
— Rantt (@RanttNews) July 21, 2017
This WaPo report appears to confirm that Sessions and Kislyak met at the Mayflower, a meeting Sessions has staunchly denied having. https://t.co/QciJkmQBEg
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 21, 2017
Kislyak induces amnesia in so many Trump administration figures, but he seems to remember and report every word. https://t.co/pr1mJNgxuL
— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) July 21, 2017
If Kislyak account is accurate, yet another indication Sessions committed perjury https://t.co/hQzJbqr3uE
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) July 21, 2017
Trump folk that met with Russian Ambassador Kislyak during campaign:
Trump
Don Jr
Kushner
Manafort
Flynn
Sessions
Page
Gordon#TrumpRussia— Scott Dworkin (@funder) July 19, 2017
So Kislyak discussed policy with Flynn & Sessions,got top secret intel from Trump, https://t.co/Hxy4C9Xzlw
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) July 21, 2017
Gezus! And there was a THIRD meeting between Sessions and Kislyak! pic.twitter.com/op8zJ8HMb3
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) July 21, 2017
Jeff Sessions right now pic.twitter.com/3kmsd8G8zj
— Leti (@leti4u1) July 22, 2017
U.S. officials who regularly read Russian intercepts say Kislyak, unlike other diplomats, does not lie in his reports back to Moscow. pic.twitter.com/4O2IqrFWYm
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) July 21, 2017
Didn't Sessions just promulgate a rule that says the government can steal all of his property now?
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) July 21, 2017
Kislyak, the Russian ambassador with good access to Trump’s team, will be appointed a senator back home, per report. https://t.co/fXAQZxqg97
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 18, 2017
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was attacked by a former Republican colleague who alleged McCarthy and his fellow members of Congress have allowed the House GOP to become the official shill for the White House.
In a profile for the New York Times, former Oversight Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-VA) shamed the GOP House for the way that a once-respectable institution has fallen.
“Congress no longer operates as an independent branch of government, but as an appendage of the executive branch,” said Davis. “He is made for that role.”
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The document will remain classified, despite claims that there is no classified material in the document, only evidence that is damning to the president.
"In terms of this document potentially being improperly classified, which is something that has been raised in writing by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and raised on the floor of the Senate tonight by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)," MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow noted. "Obviously, it was the vice president's office that said it was classified, they are getting publicly criticized for that. If it has been improperly classified and it should be something that the public can see, who adjudicates that?"
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Desiderio said that Gaetz then lamented that the White House presented their case more like “an 8th-grade book report.”
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