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If all you read is conservative media, you probably won’t find any stories about Jeff Sessions’ testimony before Congress earlier this year or the meeting he attended with George Papadopoulos and then-candidate Donald Trump. Why? Because it looks pretty bad for the Attorney General.
To make matters worse, former Trump adviser Carter Page testified yesterday that he mentioned his trip to Russia to Sessions. Page defended Sessions:
Carter Page: Telling Jeff Sessions of Russia trip ‘was as irrelevant then as it is now’
Former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page told the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday that he mentioned to then-Sen. and now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions he was traveling to Russia in June 2016 during the height of the presidential election — but calls the conversation “as irrelevant then as it is now.”
“Back in June 2016, I mentioned in passing that I happened to be planning to give a speech at a university in Moscow,” Page told the Washington Examiner in a text message Thursday night after nearly 10 hours on Capitol Hill with congressional investigators.
Page told the Washington Examiner that the trip was “completely unrelated to my limited volunteer role with the campaign” and that he has made such trips numerous times.
While the Page testimony is unlikely to cause a stir, the Papadopoulos statement might. Sessions was allegedly the person who shut down Papadopoulos when he recommended candidate Trump meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. This is, of course, a good move that should be heralded. The problem is that he didn’t mention the proposal when asked on Capitol Hill several direct questions about campaign surrogates in contact with Russia.
Last month, Sessions was asked a question by Senator Lindsey Graham: “Did anybody in the campaign, did you ever overhear a conversation between you and anybody on the campaign who talked about meeting with the Russians?”
Sessions replied, “I have not seen anything that would indicate collusion with the Russians to impact the campaign.”
Apparently, that’s not entirely true.
The good news, and what should really be in focus here, is that Sessions was the man in the room who rejected the idea altogether:
Jeff Sessions REJECTED Papadopoulos’ attempt to set up meeting with Trump and Putin during campaign. – The Right Scoop
George Papadopoulos did a lot of wrong things. One of those things was when he offered to set up a special, secret meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin through his own supposed “Russian contacts”. Contrary to what the media narrative would lead you to believe, Sessions rejected that half-assed proposal.
The angle the MSM is taking on this is that Sessions is a big old liar-pants because he somehow neglected to mention his innocence at a committee hearing. Oh boo hoo.
Democrats and even a few Republicans are asking for various actions to be taken from getting clarification from the former Senator to having him appear again before Congress to launching an investigation into the matter. They want someone big to connect to the Russian investigation and Sessions may be as big as they’ll get.
As for Sessions and his team, they’re sticking with their story, painting Papadopoulos as unworthy of the Attorney General’s memory, someone whose ludicrous idea was easily dismissed and forgotten:
Jeff Sessions under renewed scrutiny on Capitol Hill
But a source familiar with Sessions’ thinking pointed out that others in the room recall that Sessions “shut down” talk of a Putin meeting and that Papadopoulos “didn’t have a lot of credibility.” The conversation moved on to other topics and Papadopoulos did not leave a “lasting impression” with Sessions, the source said.
The source added that Sessions “has no clear recollection” of Papadopoulos and any further interactions with him, even though two were seated next to each other at a second meeting of Trump’s foreign policy team at the Capitol Hill Club steps from the House.
“The attorney general has been entirely truthful and consistent on this matter,” the source said, referring to Sessions’ testimony before Congress where he rejected the notion of meetings and interactions with Russians during the campaign season.
Final Thoughts
It’s a stretch to say that Sessions committed perjury and almost impossible to prove. His statement was consistent with the facts if we assume he didn’t remember the low-level adviser or his silly idea. That he was the one who shut down the notion of meeting with the Russians also plays well in his favor.
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