John McCain of all people just exposed that Jeff Sessions’ Russia meetings were fraudulent
Senator John McCain still can’t seem to decide what side he’s on when it comes to Donald Trump’s Russia scandal. And during last week’s testimony by former FBI Director James Comey, it wasn’t clear that McCain even knew what was going on. But when McCain questioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions today, he exposed the fact that Sessions’ meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were fraudulent in nature.
Jeff Sessions has taken the position all along that his secret meetings with the Russian Ambassador, which he claims he can’t recall the details of, and keeps lying about under oath, are irrelevant because he was meeting with him in his capacity as a Senator and not in his capacity as a Donald Trump adviser. Sessions has pointed to his role on the Senate Armed Services Committee as his reason for meeting with Kislyak. But not a single other member of that committee has met with Kislyak in that same timeframe. And John McCain seemed to take offense at Sessions using the military as an excuse, exposing something crucial in the process.
McCain asked Sessions if his 2016 meeting with the Russian Ambassador was focused on Russia’s 2014 invasion of the Crimea region of Ukraine. Sessions said yes, seemingly under the impression that McCain had just handed him a convenient excuse. But then McCain pointed out that Sessions had expressed no prior interest in the Russia-Ukraine matter during his time on the Senate Armed Services Committee. In so doing, McCain negated Sessions’ premise that he was meeting with Kislyak during the campaign due to his existing Senatorial interest in the Ukraine situation.
So was John McCain intentionally setting a trap for Jeff Sessions to walk into today, out of resentment toward Sessions’ misappropriation of the Armed Services Committee? Or did this exchange all unfold by accident? That’s not clear. But either way, the result is that Sessions’ longtime excuse for meeting with the Russian Ambassador has been obliterated. If you’re a regular reader, feel free to support Palmer Report
