GoldenRod
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Sessions recuses himself
https://apnews.com/8556c0dbdc754cf4bead6f627aa88ef6/AG's-recusal-portends-continued-pressure-on-Russia-meddling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions may not have been clear about his contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 election, but this much is: The controversy over any Kremlin involvement in American politics is not going to fade away anytime soon.
Sessions on Thursday became the second high-ranking member of the Trump administration to take a hit over conversations with Russia's envoy to the U.S., recusing himself from any probe that examines communications between Trump aides and Moscow but facing down calls for his resignation. An early backer and key adviser for Trump's campaign, Sessions said his staff recommended that he step aside from a probe.
"I feel I should not be involved in investigating a campaign I had a role in," he said.
Sessions' action followed revelations that he twice spoke with the Russian ambassador and didn't say so when pressed, under oath, by Congress. Though he rejected any suggestion that he tried to mislead anyone, he did allow that he should have been more careful in his testimony.
"I should have slowed down and said, 'But I did meet one Russian official a couple of times,'" he said.
The recusal, despite White House support for him, followed a chorus of demands that Sessions resolve the seeming contradiction between his two conversations with Moscow's U.S. envoy, Sergey Kislyak, and his statements to Congress in January that he had not communicated with Russians during the campaign. It carried echoes of a similar controversy involving retired Gen. Michael Flynn, who two weeks ago resigned as national security adviser after misleading White House officials about his own discussions with Kislyak.
Additional communication was revealed Thursday between Kislyak and Flynn and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at New York's Trump Tower. In addition, Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to Trump's presidential campaign, spoke with the ambassador last summer, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting.
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.... AND, now Jared Kushner has ties to Russia.... 
So.... Sessions recuses himself on investigations into Russian connections because of his ties to Russia, Rex Tillerson got the “Order of Friendship” from Russia, Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce, has huge financial ties to Russia, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was forced to resign because of conversations with a Russian ambassador.... and these are just the ones that I know of...
How much more do we need before there are some special prosecutors and independent committees set up to look into this! 
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Re: Sessions recuses himself
It's getting ridiculous. I am slowly revising my opinion that Trump was in the dark about Russia's role in the election. Maybe he didn't know at the time, but with all this he had to know something was up by the time he was elected.
Odd that all those folks were paraded through Trump Tower after the election like it was some kind of reality show, but we never saw or heard mention of Kislyak. 
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