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Lucylastic -> NY Times Interview with the President (7/19/2017 9:55:16 PM)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-sessions-russia.html
Citing Recusal, Trump Says He Wouldn’t Have Hired Sessions
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Wednesday that he never would have appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions had he known Mr. Sessions would recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation that has dogged his presidency, calling the decision “very unfair to the president.”
[Read excerpts of The Times’s interview with President Trump.]
In a remarkable public break with one of his earliest political supporters, Mr. Trump complained that Mr. Sessions’s decision ultimately led to the appointment of a special counsel that should not have happened. “Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else,” Mr. Trump said.
In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, the president also accused James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director he fired in May, of trying to leverage a dossier of compromising material to keep his job. Mr. Trump criticized both the acting F.B.I. director who has been filling in since Mr. Comey’s dismissal and the deputy attorney general who recommended it. And he took on Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel now leading the investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s election.
Mr. Trump said Mr. Mueller was running an office rife with conflicts of interest and warned investigators against delving into matters too far afield from Russia. Mr. Trump never said he would order the Justice Department to fire Mr. Mueller, nor would he outline circumstances under which he might do so. But he left open the possibility as he expressed deep grievance over an investigation that has taken a political toll in the six months since he took office.
Asked if Mr. Mueller’s investigation would cross a red line if it expanded to look at his family’s finances beyond any relationship to Russia, Mr. Trump said, “I would say yes.” He would not say what he would do about it. “I think that’s a violation. Look, this is about Russia.”
While the interview touched on an array of issues, including health care, foreign affairs and politics, the investigation dominated the conversation. He said that as far as he knew, he was not under investigation himself, despite reports that Mr. Mueller is looking at whether the president obstructed justice by firing Mr. Comey.
“I don’t think we’re under investigation,” he said. “I’m not under investigation. For what? I didn’t do anything wrong.”
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Much more at the link
Transcript is here
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-transcript.html
there is also audio
OK the man has finally lost his shit
there are so many questions about this....
WTF is he on?
Why did he give an interview with the "failin" NY Slimes?
gasp
Is Sessions singing to the investigations?
How did Sessions know that when he toook the job, that there was be an investigation???
Will he resign given the smearing from the scrotus?
does trump think that Sessions was his personal boi to keep any investigations away from him??? and when sessions recused himself, trump realised that he fucked up ??
If you read the whole transcript, its bizzarre, is he gonna claim it as a hoax, or a joke, or? will sessions resign?
there are so many ...inconsistencies, without adding to the lies
Its just getting crazier
I know his base will lick his taint, but man, how can anybody justify what hes doing.
Especially this after this week
seven months in....this is so fucked up
Oh he also thinks that any investigation into his "families" financial dealings is "crossing a line"
I cannot wrap my head around this at all, I am gobsmacked.
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