Trump Tries To Shift Russia Focus, Accuses Schumer Of Putin Ties

“We must evaluate the scope of Russia’s interference in our election”, the New York Democrat tweeted following reports of multiple meetings between Trump campaign staffers and Russian officials.

The president called for a probe into Schumer’s “ties to Russian Federation and Putin” and called the NY senator “A total hypocrite!”

Democrats, along with their reliable allies The Washington Post and The New York Times, want America to believe, as Minnesota Senator Al Franken suggested during the hearing, that Sessions colluded with Russian Federation during the 2016 campaign and lied about it.

Schumer responded on Twitter shortly after, saying that he would gladly discuss his contact with Putin under oath and would challenge his team to do the same.

In his tweet, Mr Trump linked to a 2010 photo in which Ms Pelosi and other lawmakers are shown meeting with Russian officials, including then-president Dmitry Medvedev and ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Finally, at 4:02, 15 minutes after the original tweet, Trump reposted this message a third time with “hereby” spelled correctly.

“He can’t get over his adulation of Vladimir Putin”, said Peters, who also said that Obama wouldn’t challenge Russian Federation due to “sheer cowardice”. Sessions’ recusal will put a deputy in charge of the investigations that relate to the Trump campaign, but it is not entirely clear how broad that recusal will be.

Sen. Jeff Sessions arrives to testify at his confirmation hearing to be attorney general of the USA before the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 10, 2017, in Washington, DC.

The recusal from any federal investigations into Russia’s intervention in the 2016 presidential election came amid revelations that Sessions twice spoke with Kislyak during Trump’s presidential campaign. Even though Russian Federation had criticized the Iraq War as an “error”, U.S. -Russia relations were, comparatively, in good shape.

“We have had two presidents – a Republican and a Democrat – previous to the current president who thought they could do such a deal with Vladimir Putin”, he said on the Senate floor on Wednesday. The photo circulated far-right blogs before Trump tweeted it, and the far-right Gateway Pundit took credit on Twitter for Trump’s tweet. He also called for a special counsel to investigate the Kremlin’s interference in the USA election.

Schumer was among those who called for Sessions’ resignation.