Republican Darrell Issa calls for Trump-Russia special prosecutor, asks Jeff Sessions to recuse himself

| 9:02 pm EST February 24, 2017
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Republican Congressman Darrell Issa has long been a thorn in the side of Democrats everywhere. But on Friday night he delivered what may be the best news for Democrats since Donald Trump took office. Issa appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher and – to the surprise of everyone involved – called for an independent special prosecutor to investigate Donald Trump’s Russia scandal. Then he took things even further.

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Darrell Issa aligned himself with a number of his Democratic counterparts on Friday night when he told Bill Maher that “You can’t have somebody, a friend of mine, Jeff Sessions, who was on the campaign, and who was an appointee, you’re going to need to use the special prosecutor’s statute and office.” Issa went on to make clear that Sessions can’t simply recuse himself in order allow his own deputy Attorney General to handle the matter. He also condemned Vladimir Putin as a murderer and the leader of a Kremlin regime who are “bad people.” So what now?

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Issa is the first major Republican voice in Congress to publicly state the view that Jeff Sessions needs to step aside and allow a special prosecutor to handle the Trump-Russia investigation. This is notable in that Issa is no friend of the Democrats, and that he is a friend of Sessions. Issa also led a number of showboating investigations into President Obama’s administration, seemingly for his own partisan gain. But he appears to have decided that the best thing for himself at this point is to treat Trump-Russia with all the seriousness in the world.

The Democrats in Congress will now seize on Darrell Issa’s words, using it to amplify their own ongoing demand for a special prosecutor and Sessions stepping aside. And now that Issa has broken the dam, other Republicans in Congress may now quickly join him in calling for the same. Source: Real Time with Bill Maher episode which aired on HBO on February 24th.

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