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Puppyroach on 05 March 2017
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badgenome said:
Puppyroach said:

USA imposes sanctions on Russia, including costing Exxon mobil a 500 billion dollar deal. Out of the blue, Trump selects Rex Tillersson, with no foreign political experience at all, but a former CEO of Exxon mobil, as the one to discuss directly to Russia as secretary of state. Meanwhile, Michael Flynn and Jeff Session cannot remember having meetings with Russian ambassadors and when they are exposed, they don't remember what the conversations were about. More and more surrogates to Trump are exposed to having contacts with russians.

This is a complete screw up by the Trump team, so the very fact that we are discussing it just goes to shows it is being exposed by these powerful people? Would you stance be the same if it was Hillary Clintons team that had been so heavily involved with Russians in this way? Because I know I would handle it the exact same way.

Yes, because Flynn did exactly what he should have done: attempt to lower tensions and possibly prevent Russia from reciprocating to any more sanctions or explusions in the dying days of the Obama administration. Reminding them that anything Obama does will be up for review is not a scandal. His only fault was in misleading Pence about it, and that's why he was fired. Sessions did nothing even the slightest bit wrong, and the fact that there's such a flap over his words being taken out of context exposes just how little there is to the whole Russia narrative as well as just how eager the media is to flog it.

Assuming Russia is even behind the leaks there's no need for them to conspire with the Trump campaign over it. One candidate was spoiling for war and the other wasn't. It's not hard to see why Russia would favor the one who wasn't. It's peculiar how the same people who are so down on nationalism are also suddenly so panicky about foreign interference... so long as that interference is from Russia and not EU, China, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc.

So Flynn did everything right, and just happened to forget to tell the truth to VP Pence? You seriously believe someone as competent as him would do that? :)

And regarding Session... he claimed he was in his position as senator when meeting the Russian ambassador, yet didn't use congressional funds to pay for the trip. In the press conference, he several times give the standard lawyer answer that according to his knowledge, the Trump campaign never came up. If they are so innocent, they are enormously incompetent and should never be close to any public office ever again.

EDIT: Sessions answers remind me of when a politician is caught with paying a prostitute for sexual favors and claim that he never realized ir was a prostitute :).