Sen. Lindsey Graham: “There will be holy hell to pay” if Trump fires Sessions

This week, President Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked his Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Twitter, White House administrators have affirmed the president’s “frustration” with Sessions — and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has had enough. “If Jeff Sessions is fired,” Graham told reporters Thursday, according to video taken by NBC News, “there will be holy hell to pay.”

Graham warned reporters on Capitol Hill: “This effort to basically marginalize and humiliate the attorney general is not going over well in the Senate. I don't think it's going over well in the conservative world. If you believe Jeff Sessions should be fired, use the power you have and accept the consequences. I hope it stops. I'm 100 percent behind Jeff Sessions.”

“Any effort to go after Mueller could be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency, unless Mueller did something wrong,” Graham added.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... s-sessions

willhud9 wrote:Listening to Mitch McConnell whine about how the Democrats refused to engage in serious discussions about healthcare is disgusting.

Pulsar wrote:http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon

Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon

He started by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. It escalated from there.

[...]

“Who leaked that to you?” he asked. I said I couldn’t give him that information. He responded by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. “What I’m going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we’ll start over,” he said. [...] “You’re an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I’m asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it.”

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“They’ll all be fired by me,” he said. “[...] Reince Priebus—if you want to leak something—he’ll be asked to resign very shortly.” The issue, he said, was that he believed Priebus had been worried about the dinner because he hadn’t been invited. “Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci said. He channelled Priebus as he spoke: “ ‘Oh, Bill Shine is coming in. Let me leak the fucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.’ ” (Priebus did not respond to a request for comment.)

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Scaramucci also told me that, unlike other senior officials, he had no interest in media attention. “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock,” he said, speaking of Trump’s chief strategist. “I’m not trying to build my own brand off the fucking strength of the President. I’m here to serve the country.” (Bannon declined to comment.)

Ho-lee fuck. This guy is totally insane

crank wrote:

Pulsar wrote:http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon

Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon

He started by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. It escalated from there.

[...]

“Who leaked that to you?” he asked. I said I couldn’t give him that information. He responded by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. “What I’m going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we’ll start over,” he said. [...] “You’re an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I’m asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it.”

[...]

“They’ll all be fired by me,” he said. “[...] Reince Priebus—if you want to leak something—he’ll be asked to resign very shortly.” The issue, he said, was that he believed Priebus had been worried about the dinner because he hadn’t been invited. “Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci said. He channelled Priebus as he spoke: “ ‘Oh, Bill Shine is coming in. Let me leak the fucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.’ ” (Priebus did not respond to a request for comment.)

[...]

Scaramucci also told me that, unlike other senior officials, he had no interest in media attention. “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock,” he said, speaking of Trump’s chief strategist. “I’m not trying to build my own brand off the fucking strength of the President. I’m here to serve the country.” (Bannon declined to comment.)

Ho-lee fuck. This guy is totally insane

I'm surprised this hasn't got more reaction.
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Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon

crank wrote:I'm surprised this hasn't got more reaction.

Guess he's going to have to suck his own cock now.

theropod wrote:This is either going to end in a broken country or some people are going to jail. When the chief of staff isn't really the chief of staff one wonders if any of them are actually serving in the roles they are assigned. Is the secretary of defense working on housing and urban development? How fucked up can this get before the wheels come completely off?

RS

purplerat wrote:

theropod wrote:This is either going to end in a broken country or some people are going to jail. When the chief of staff isn't really the chief of staff one wonders if any of them are actually serving in the roles they are assigned. Is the secretary of defense working on housing and urban development? How fucked up can this get before the wheels come completely off?

RS

Well apparently the Secretary of Interior was working on health care so you're not too far off.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... kas-senato

"I don't think it's wise to be operating on a daily basis thinking about what a statement or a response that causes you to be fearful of your electoral prospects," Murkowski said on MSNBC. "We're here to govern."

theropod wrote:This is either going to end in a broken country or some people are going to jail. When the chief of staff isn't really the chief of staff one wonders if any of them are actually serving in the roles they are assigned. Is the secretary of defense working on housing and urban development? How fucked up can this get before the wheels come completely off?

RS

theropod wrote:This is either going to end in a broken country or some people are going to jail. When the chief of staff isn't really the chief of staff one wonders if any of them are actually serving in the roles they are assigned. Is the secretary of defense working on housing and urban development? How fucked up can this get before the wheels come completely off?

RS

Pulsar wrote:

crank wrote:I'm surprised this hasn't got more reaction.

I'm surprised the Browder testimony hasn't gotten more reaction. Everyone should read the draft of his statement. It's the most comprehensive account of what lies at the heart of the Russia saga: Putin has accumulated an estimated $200 billion through nefarious actions, and stored most of it in Western banks. The Magnitsky Act has frozen those assets, and Putin is trying to get this ban lifted by any means. That's what the meeting with Donald Jr was about, and there have been many other similar meetings with US officials.

Spinozasgalt wrote:Wait, is Trump now telling police that he wants more brutality from them?