When 73-year-old President Donald Trump made 73-year-old Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Al.) his Attorney General Feb 8, 2017, it was payback for backing Trump in a key Southern state in the 2016 presidential race. Little did Trump know that during the transition after Trump beat former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Nov. 4, 2016 Sessions had wiretapped conversations with 69-year-old former Russian Amb. Sergey Kislyak, the same culprit former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, unmasked during the transition period. Once Trump beat Hillary, former President Barack Obama became more active in pursuing wiretaps of Trump officials thinking they were undermining his Russian policy in the last months of his presidency. When Obama kicked out 35 Russian diplomats from the United States Dec. 31, 2016, U.S.-Russian relations hit Cuban Missile Crisis lows.
Both Flynn and Sessions held calls with Kislyak so that they could keep the U.S. and Russia from coming to blows in Syria, an active hot spot, where Hillary, and former 77-year-old Vice President Joe Biden, now the Democrat presumptive nominee, advocated no-fly zones, potentially setting up a military confrontation with Russia. So Obama’s National Security Team, led by 55-year-old former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, unmasked wiretapped conversations between Kislyak, Flynn and Sessions. When it came time for Sessions confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Committee came armed with wiretapped conversations of Sessions and Kislyak. Sessions said in the hearings he had no recall of talking with Russian officials during the transition period. He was reminded at his confirmation hearing that he spoke with Kislyack on more than once occasion.
In order to get through his confirmation for Attorney General, Sessions promised he would recuse himself in any ongoing investigation surrounding alleged ties the Trump campaign had with Russia. After becoming Atty. Gen. Feb. 8, 2017, Democrats and media continued relentless accusations about Trump and his alleged ties with Russia to win the Nov. 4, 2016 presidential election. By that time, former FBI Director James Comey was fully entrenched in his counterintelligence investigation into Trump and his campaign. Comey received Hillary’s opposition research AKA “the Steele Dossier” in July or August 2016 from the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), one of Trump biggest Republican enemies. McCain held a grudge against Trump for a petty squabble over his Vietnam War days as a prisoner of war. Comey used Hillary’s fake dossier to accuse Trump and his campaign of Russian collusion.
Inside Obama’s White House there was an active effort to use Hillary’s dossier to allege Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. Hillary was so furious after her loss she blamed practically everyone. But she kept fixated on Russia for her defeat. Comey did his best to feed Hillary’s fraudulent narrative to the press, leaking constant stories of Russian collusion, culminating in Trump firing Comey May 9, 2017 for leaking to the press and conduction an illegal counterintelligence investigation of his campaign to help Hillary get elected. Then came, another anti-Trump operative in the Justice Department, Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein bowing to Democrats’ demands to appoint 75-year-old former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel. Mueller knew from Day 1 that charges against Trump’s Russian collusion were fake.
Yet Mueller spent 22-months, $40 million taxpayer dollars to investigate Trump’s alleged Russian ties with 17 seasoned career prosecutors, largely Democrats. Mueller’s lead prosecutor was 62-year-old DOJ career prosecutor Andrew Weissmann. Weissmann knew, like Mueller, Hillary’s dossier was fake and the DOJ’s probable cause in conducting any investigation was not merited. Weissmann retired March 14, 2019, nine days before Mueller delivered his 484-page Final Report March 23, 2019, concluding that neither Trump nor anyone in his campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election or anything else. Weissmann, true to his political leanings, now hosts a Democrats fundraiser for Biden. Yet when he led Mueller’s team of Democrat prosecutors, he denied any bias against Trump. Weissmann, like Mueller, knew there was no substance to the allegations against Trump.
Trump blames Sessions for the whole mess with the Special Counsel investigation because he recused himself March 2, 2017. Had he not recused himself, there would not have been a wasted Special Counsel investigation. “He’s not mentally qualified to be Attorney General,” Trump said. “He was the biggest problem. I mean, look Jeff Sessions put people in place that were as disaster,” referring to letting Rosenstein appoint a Special Counsel after Trump fired Mueller. Democrats cried “obstruction of justice,” when they knew Hillary’s dossier was fake and any charges of Russian collusion were also fake. Trump hopes that Atty. Gen. Bill Barr and U.S. Atty. John Durham (R-Conn.) return indictments to former Obama officials at the DOJ, FBI, CIA and National Security Agency [NSA] who conspired to investigate Trump’s alleged Russian collusion using Hillary’s bogus dossier.
