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Sessions’ Biggest Obstacle To Running For Senate? Trump.


Jeff Sessions is mulling jumping into the crowded race to strip Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) of his Senate seat. Too bad the party’s standard bearer is not his biggest fan.

According to Politico, Sessions would immediately be in the upper echelons of spending power if he joins the race, due to millions left over in his campaign coffers.

And, Republicans see Jones, who defeated Roy Moore after allegations of him sexually assaulting underage girls surfaced in 2017, as Democrats’ most vulnerable Senator.

Sessions held his Senate seat for over two decades before becoming President Donald Trump’s attorney general.

Trump has not been reticent in his dislike of Sessions, who he blames for not “protecting” him by recusing himself during the Mueller investigation. Trump is extremely popular in Alabama, a state which he won by over 60 percent in 2016.

After months of sustaining humiliation and verbal body blows from the President, it is not at all clear that Sessions would willingly sign up for that again — even with a Senate seat on the line. He has until November 8 to decide.
 


U bitch ass niggas let her down


lol yeah this is some bullshit.. cuz if Michelle Obama or Oprah decided today to run for office I think they would be met with overwhelming support.

Kamala needs to look in the mirror and self reflect on why she isn't being well received.

I won't diminish that her being a woman of color might have a part to play on why she isn't doing well... it damn sure isn't the major factor though
 
A top State Department official will testify Wednesday that former National Security Advisor John Bolton warned him about Rudy Giuliani’s involvement in Ukraine in the early summer.
Bolton called President Trump’s personal lawyer a barrier to improved relations with Ukraine in a June meeting, according to the prepared remarks of Christopher Anderson, a senior diplomat deeply involved in U.S. policy toward Ukraine.


“He cautioned that Mr. Giuliani was a key voice with the President on Ukraine, which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement,” Anderson plans to tell the House impeachment inquiry, according to copies of his prepared remarks circulated before his appearance on Tuesday.

Anderson is set to become the latest U.S. official to describe Bolton’s dim view of Giuliani’s role in Ukraine policy to the impeachment inquiry, which is focused on whether Trump pressured Ukraine to launch politically helpful investigations into Democratic targets.

Bolton once slammed Giuliani as “a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up,” according to the reported testimony of his former senior aide Fiona Hill, Trump’s former top adviser on Europe and Russia.

After the June 13 meeting with Bolton, Anderson summarized Bolton’s comments about Giuliani in a message to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent, who has already testified before the committees, and “sent around a more formal summary later that day to my State Department colleagues.”

olton has not yet been subpoenaed to appear, although his legal team has reportedly been in touch with lawyers for the House committees running the impeachment inquiry.

Anderson, who served as an aide to Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, also described an episode in which the White House blocked efforts to criticize a Russian attack on Ukraine.

“On November 25, 2018, Russia escalated the conflict further when its forces openly attacked and seized Ukrainian military vessels heading to a Ukrainian port in the Sea of Azov,” Anderson plans to say, according to his prepared remarks. “While my colleagues at the State Department quickly prepared a statement condemning Russia for its escalation, senior officials in the White House blocked it from being issued.”

Democrats are eyeing Bolton as a potentially devastating witness against the president — if he can be persuaded to appear. Dems are investigating allegations that Trump and Giuliani waged a shadow diplomacy campaign to pressure Ukraine to launch investigations that could improve Trump’s reelection chances in 2020.

 

In Massive Slight, Trump Left Mulvaney Out Of Baghdadi Raid Operation

Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was at home in South Carolina when the raid to kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was launched, only learning about it after the fact.

According to NBC News, Mulvaney was only filled in Saturday night after President Donald Trump tweeted a teaser: “Something very big has just happened!”

It was a snub of epic proportions and a sign of just how far Mulvaney’s star has fallen. Back during the Obama administration, his then-chief of staff Bill Daley was glued to the former President’s side during the raid on Osama bin Laden.

As he is wont to do, Trump has been cooling on his chief of staff for weeks, pushed further in his dislike after Mulvaney gave a press conference where he linked withholding Ukraine military aid to investigations into the 2016 election. Mulvaney later had to walk the comments back, insisting that there was no quid pro quo.
 
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