{"id":102199,"date":"2018-08-11T22:08:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T02:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=102199"},"modified":"2018-08-11T22:09:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T02:09:23","slug":"trump-lambastes-sessions-ag-is-scared-stiff-and-missing-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=102199","title":{"rendered":"Trump Lambastes Sessions: AG is &#8216;scared stiff and missing in action&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/trumpsessions_053118getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/trumpsessions_053118getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/trumpsessions_053118getty.jpg 980w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/trumpsessions_053118getty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/trumpsessions_053118getty-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Trump heightens attacks on Sessions: He&#8217;s &#8216;scared stiff and missing in action&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p>Tal Axelrod<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">President Trump<\/a><\/span>\u00a0ratcheted\u00a0up his attacks on Attorney General\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/jeff-sessions\" data-nid=\"188198\">Jeff Sessions<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Saturday,\u00a0tweeting\u00a0that Sessions was &#8220;scared stiff&#8221; and &#8220;Missing in Action&#8221; in defending him amid special counsel\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/robert-mueller\" data-nid=\"364882\">Robert Mueller<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s probe into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Trump slammed Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer at the center of the Trump dossier scandal, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) and once again slammed Mueller&#8217;s investigation as a &#8220;witch hunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The big story that the Fake News Media refuses to report is lowlife Christopher Steele\u2019s many meetings with Deputy A.G. Bruce Ohr and his beautiful wife, Nelly. It was Fusion GPS that hired Steele to write the phony &amp; discredited Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary &amp; the DNC,&#8221; Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you believe Nelly worked for Fusion and her husband STILL WORKS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF &#8216;JUSTICE.&#8217; I have never seen anything so Rigged in my life. Our A.G. is scared stiff and Missing in Action. It is all starting to be revealed &#8211; not pretty. IG Report soon? Witch Hunt!&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The big story that the Fake News Media refuses to report is lowlife Christopher Steele\u2019s many meetings with Deputy A.G. Bruce Ohr and his beautiful wife, Nelly. It was Fusion GPS that hired Steele to write the phony &amp; discredited Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary &amp; the DNC&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1028347518822825984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.Do you believe Nelly worked for Fusion and her husband STILL WORKS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF \u201cJUSTICE.\u201d I have never seen anything so Rigged in my life. Our A.G. is scared stiff and Missing in Action. It is all starting to be revealed &#8211; not pretty. IG Report soon?  Witch Hunt!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1028354010129027077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s attack on Saturday was likely prompted by\u00a0murmurings that the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is readying subpoenas for people connected to the controversial Steele dossier.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Chairman\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/bob-goodlatte\" data-nid=\"188322\">Bob Goodlatte<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(R-Va.) is reportedly preparing subpoenas for DOJ official Bruce Ohr, his wife, Nellie Ohr, and Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, sources\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/401193-gop-chairman-set-to-issue-steele-dossier-subpoenas\">told The Hill<\/a>\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bruce Ohr is facing scrutiny from Republicans for\u00a0his contacts with Simpson\u00a0and Steele during the presidential campaign, the news of which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/364553-trump-allies-demand-special-counsel-probe-of-doj-fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/364553-trump-allies-demand-special-counsel-probe-of-doj-fbi&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1533944322364000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF2OQBVOwvtzb2nOWI_rR_Bff34fQ\">prompted Trump allies<\/a>\u00a0to demand\u00a0a special counsel investigation into the DOJ and FBI in\u00a0December.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Simpson hired Steele to help produce\u00a0the dossier that made a series of salacious allegations about\u00a0Trump&#8217;s connections with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Nellie Ohr worked for Fusion GPS during the presidential campaign\u00a0\u2014 a fact that\u00a0Republicans have\u00a0promoted as a possible\u00a0link\u00a0between the DOJ and the opposition research firm.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has gone after\u00a0Sessions\u00a0for the Russia probe before, saying earlier this month that the attorney general should stop the investigation\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/399841-trump-calls-on-sessions-to-end-russia-probe\">&#8220;right now.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further,&#8221; Trump tweeted on Aug. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is\u00a0also known to\u00a0harbor hostility toward\u00a0Sessions for recusing himself\u00a0in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russian Witch Hunt Hoax continues, all because Jeff Sessions didn\u2019t tell me he was going to recuse himself&#8230;I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined&#8230;and Sessions knew better than most that there was No Collusion!\u201d the president\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1003962584352030720\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0in June.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/401405-trump-slams-sessions-as-scared-stiff-in-new-tweet\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/401405-trump-slams-sessions-as-scared-stiff-in-new-tweet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}