{"id":21575,"date":"2017-05-11T02:01:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T02:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21575"},"modified":"2017-05-11T02:01:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T02:01:44","slug":"hey-didnt-the-ag-recuse-himself-from-russia-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21575","title":{"rendered":"Hey, didn&#8217;t the AG recuse himself from Russia probe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XVpDT4PyM04<\/p>\n<p>Al Franken knows a lie when he hears it. He wrote a book about &#8220;Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. senator from Minnesota stood on the Senate floor and offered a point-by-point rebuttal of an apparent lie that Donald J. Trump likely told about a recommendation he got to fire FBI Director James Comey.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, perhaps the lie came from the mouth of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced this year he would &#8220;recuse&#8221; himself from any dealings at any level with the probe into whether Russian government officials sought to influence the 2016 presidential election in the president&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n<p>You see, the president said he got a recommendation to fire Comey from &#8212; drum roll! &#8212; AG Sessions, the fellow who said he would recuse himself from this matter.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah! Then there&#8217;s that matter of Comey leading the FBI probe into allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russian hackers to sway the election.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Franken&#8217;s statement zeroes in quite cleanly on Sessions&#8217; recusal and he casts doubt (a) on whether the president really got a recommendation from Sessions to fire Comey or (b) on whether Sessions has actually recused himself as he pledged to do.<\/p>\n<p>Man, this Comey firing matter is beginning to get stinkier by the day.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XVpDT4PyM04 Al Franken knows a lie when he hears it. He wrote a book about &#8220;Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.&#8221; The U.S. senator from Minnesota stood on the Senate floor and offered a point-by-point rebuttal of an apparent lie that Donald J. Trump likely told about a recommendation he got to fire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21575\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hey, didn&#8217;t the AG recuse himself from Russia probe?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[216,502,1424,1693,6386,6242,2434],"class_list":["post-21575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-al-franken","tag-attorney-general","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-fbi-probe","tag-james-comey","tag-jeff-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21576,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21575\/revisions\/21576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}