President Vladimir TrumPutin Defends Jeff Sessions: ‘It’s a Total Witch Hunt’

“Attorney General Sessions, on the other hand, misled the Senate under oath”.

You see, he simply answered the questions as he interpreted it.

Michael McFaul was the USA ambassador to Russian Federation from 2012 to 2014.

Sessions’ agreement to respond to questions in writing came after the committee’s nine Democrats calls-for-probe-into-schumer-over-old-putin-photo-6458/”>asked the committee’s chairman, Senator Chuck Grassley, to call Sessions back before the committee to testify publicly on the matter. U.S. intelligence chiefs announced in December that they had concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind a hacking and misinformation campaign to hurt Clinton and boost Trump’s chances to win the November 8 presidential election. Did someone from the campaign tell him to meet with the Russians?

“I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign”, Sessions told reporters. Many Democrats and some GOP members have called for Sessions to resign as attorney general for failing to disclose under oath that he met twice with Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the U.S.

Sessions initially denied any contact with Russian officials during his Senate confirmation hearing, but has since admitted he met with Kislyak on two occasions a year ago.

Collins, a Republican, championed Sessions’ nomination as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, providing a glowing introduction to her Senate colleagues and disturbing those concerned about his stances on women’s rights, protections for LGBTQ people, the legalization of marijuana, and minority voting rights. That was a deception.

Sessions called a press conference on Thursday to announce that he was following the advice of senior Justice Department advisers by withdrawing from oversight of any investigations into Russian meddling in last year’s presidential race. And President George W. Bush’s former ethics lawyer, Richard Painter, said, “Misleading the Senate in sworn testimony about [one’s] own contacts with the Russians is a good way to go to jail”. “We should start an immediate investigation into @SenSchumer and his ties to Russian Federation and Putin”.

The White House counsel’s office has instructed the President’s aides to preserve materials that could be connected to Russian interference in the 2016 election and related issues, three administration officials said Wednesday. North Carolina’s senators and representatives should promptly do the same.

Mr Sessions has called the accusations “unbelievable” and “false”. Perhaps that’s true, but it also is irrelevant. It now seems that newly confirmed Attorney General Jeff Sessions may have done something very similar. A Russian government spokes person dismissed the allegations, describing them as “depersonalized assumptions of the media that are constantly trying to blow this situation out of proportion”.