{"id":5545,"date":"2017-06-22T11:43:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2018-12-08T19:49:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T02:49:41","slug":"stonewall-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5545","title":{"rendered":"Stonewall Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more annoying characters in Donald Trump&#8217;s cavalcade of sycophants is Attorney Confederate General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. We&#8217;ve commented before about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his racism<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lying under oath<\/a>. Well there was more deceit on display last week as our top justice did his best to obstruct justice.<\/p>\n<p>During testimony last week in the investigation into the GOP&#8217;s ties with Russia during the 2016 election, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/videos\/a55621\/sessions-wyden-stonewall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sessions stonewalled and did his best St. Ronald Reagan &#8220;I don&#8217;t recall&#8221; spiel<\/a>. How did it go? Well, the Republicans, like always smirked their way through it, slapping themselves on the back at how cleverly they can deceive the American public, just like they&#8217;re doing with their healthcare plan.<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s bothersome is that our attorney general, who is supposed to be our top administrator of justice is obstructing justice at every turn. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2017\/06\/17\/did-sessions-and-trump-conspire-to-obstruct-justice_partner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">If he and Donald Trump did obstruct justice by firing James Comey, then that is grounds for impeachment<\/a>. But Newt Gingrich already has a defense lined up. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2017\/06\/17\/newt_gingrich_now_says_the_president_technically_can_t_even_obstruct_justice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He stated this week that the President cannot possibly obstruct justice, even though he pursued Bill Clinton for two years because he lied about having sex<\/a>. In a nutshell, it&#8217;s okay when Republicans obstruct justice and commit perjury\u00a0and commit treason&#8230;ad infinitum.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5547\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5547 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sessionsrussiatestimonygnatmemory.jpg\" alt=\"Attorney Confederate General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, displays his gnat like memory while performing some Jackson-esque stonewalling.\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sessionsrussiatestimonygnatmemory.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sessionsrussiatestimonygnatmemory-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Confederate General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, displays his gnat like memory while performing some truly Jackson-esque stonewalling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more annoying characters in Donald Trump&#8217;s cavalcade of sycophants is Attorney Confederate General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. We&#8217;ve commented before about his racism and lying under oath. Well there was more deceit on display last week as our top justice did his best to obstruct justice. During testimony last week in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5545\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stonewall Sessions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1848,61,60,8,68,85,3,198],"tags":[1518,252,69,1502,22,20,389,27,1369,9,1370,897,663,668,1519,98,596,296,19,871,1503,1583,47,48,1034,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6409,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions\/6409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}