Wow. This was on Drudge. I don't know what to think about it.

Brooks Suggests Republicans Are Retiring Because of Assassination Fears

Pointed at the large number of GOP members on baseball team who are leaving Congress

Posted Apr 27, 2018 9:41 AM

Eric Garcia

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Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., speaks to reporters at the Republican baseball team's first practice of the year at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks suggested in a radio interview that Republicans are retiring en masse because of assassination fears.

Brooks was speaking on “The Dale Jackson Show” about the first Republican practice the Congressional Baseball Game after last year’s shooting that left Majority Whip Steve Scalise severely injured.

“We have multiple rings of security, plainclothes, uniform, Capitol Police, other police,” he said. “There was a medical vehicle nearby just in case there was a copycat.”

But Brooks said while there were multiple factors that contributed to a slew of Republicans leaving the House, he suggested fears of violence was a major one.

“One of the things that’s concerning me is the assassination risk may become a factor,” he said.

Brooks referred to the fact many members of the Republican baseball team are retiring, including Sen. Jeff Flake and Reps. Ryan Costello, Pat Meehan, Dennis Ross and Tom Rooney.

“You have to wonder with that kind of disproportionate retirement number whether what happened in June played a factor,” he said.

Brooks also pointed to the fact that in the past month, a man pled guilty to threatening Arizona Rep. Martha McSally and three different people have been arrested for threatening Reps. Scott Taylor and Tom Garrett of Virginia and Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey.

“Notice a trend here?” he said. “I have a congressman who is a friend here who has a three-year old daughter whose daughter was threatened with murder.”

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He also said the “socialist Bernie Sanders wing of society” was pushing for a revolution that would lead to Maoist level of violence.

“There are a growing number of leftists who believe the way to resolve this is not at the ballot box but through threats and sometimes through violence and assassinations,” he said.

When pressed about his suggestion, Brooks said it was a “possible” factor.

“I don't think any of these people who are retiring would say that, but just looking at the numbers,” he said. “That’s out of whack.”

>>1222508

Many carry I think. What purpose this article serve? What's happening? I don't know.

>>1222512

Glad you said it!

>>1222521

Coffee contains caffeine. The studies can not make up their mind, whether coffee is good or bad. Bacon too. So I am just going to drink and eat as I please. I do avoid preservatives and processed food, but the stress does me more harm.

>>1222567

Good point. This is what surprise me. True, but I know it is not reason why many will be leaving. Q said so.

"He also said the “socialist Bernie Sanders wing of society” was pushing for a revolution that would lead to Maoist level of violence.

“There are a growing number of leftists who believe the way to resolve this is not at the ballot box but through threats and sometimes through violence and assassinations,”

>>1222635

Conclusion: Studies are fake.

>>1222638

Pretty much what he saying is US is under communist control so they are leaving because they are powerless.

>>1222613

There are two theories out there

1. He is working for Trump and Trump has a big plan for him.

2. He is a fake and corrupt. Always talk but no action.

>>1222544

That was my first thought.

>>1222741

OMG. It does look like it.

>>1222801

>Sessions was asked Wednesday, while discussing the Department of Justice's budget for 2019, about whether we're going to use Gitmo again by Lindsay Graham, and whether it'd be in Graham's lifetime.

Lindsay Graham sounds concerned. I like to see it too, but I can not locate it yet. Is this the article you are referring to?

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to testify by a Senate subcommittee Wednesday on the Justice Department’s proposed $28.4 billion budget and other matters.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a Senate panel Wednesday that he believes President Trump has the constitutional authority to pardon anyone and does not need to confer with the Justice

Trump already has granted pardons to Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff convicted of violating a court order stemming from his department’s treatment of Latinos, and to Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Richard B. Cheney’s chief of staff, who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice after the disclosure of a CIA officer’s identity. Nobody faced charges for the leak itself. Both decisions were made without input from the Justice Department.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told Sessions that he had once said at a congressional hearing that it would be an abuse of power for the president to pardon someone without first going through the pardon attorney. Van Hollen said he did not believe that President George W. Bush or President Obama ever granted a pardon without first conferring with the U.S. Pardon Attorney’s Office, a division of the Justice Department. Sessions said he did not know.

After the hearing, a Justice Department spokesman said that in January 2017, before leaving office, Obama granted a pardon, without a recommendation from the pardon attorney, to retired Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright, a former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

Sessions also faced questions from Democratic lawmakers about his conversations with Trump and other White House officials about matters stemming from the Russia probe, including whether Sessions has recused himself from the investigation into Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, whose office was raided by FBI agents April 9. That development was reported by Bloomberg News this week.

“It is the policy of the Department of Justice that those who have recused themselves not state the details of it or confirm the existence of an investigation or the scope of that investigation,” Sessions told the panel.

Sessions did defend his embattled deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the Russia investigation being led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, making Rosenstein a target of Trump’s attacks. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) asked Sessions for his opinion of Rosenstein. “He works every day to do the job he is called upon to do that got dropped into his lap,” Sessions replied.

Asked whether he had confidence in Rosenstein, Sessions said, “I do have confidence in him.”

He demurred, however, when asked by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) whether he would step down if Trump were to fire Rosenstein or Mueller.

“That calls for a speculative answer,” Sessions replied. “I’m not able to do that.”

[Sessions told White House that Rosenstein’s firing could prompt his departure, too]

Leahy said he was deeply concerned about the “president’s relentless and I think baseless attacks” on senior Justice Department officials, including Sessions.

“You and I are in total agreement, and that is that we care deeply about the integrity of the Justice Department . . . and I worry that the walls intended to protect independence and credibility are at risk of crumbling,” Leahy said. “You’re at the helm of a Justice Department under siege. I’ve been in [Congress] 44 years. I have never seen such attacks.”

During the hearing, Sessions testified about his priorities in the Justice Department’s $28.4 billion budget. He said one of them is “going after drug companies, doctors and pharmacists,” who, he said, are fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic.

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Asked by Graham if he thought the U.S. government would ever begin sending detainees to Guantanamo again “in my lifetime,” Sessions replied: “I don’t know. I just have to be honest with you. It could be if we have a surge in arrestees” captured overseas.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-citing-americas-opioid-epidemic-tells-senate-panel-hes-taking-on-drug-companies/2018/04/25/12b63f6c-489a-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html?utm_term=.94ffb0ecf596

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>>1222801

>Sessions was asked Wednesday, while discussing the Department of Justice's budget for 2019, about whether we're going to use Gitmo again by Lindsay Graham, and whether it'd be in Graham's lifetime.

Lindsay Graham sounds concerned. I like to see it too, but I can not locate it yet. Is this the article you are referring to?

_

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to testify by a Senate subcommittee Wednesday on the Justice Department’s proposed $28.4 billion budget and other matters.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a Senate panel Wednesday that he believes President Trump has the constitutional authority to pardon anyone and does not need to confer with the Justice

Trump already has granted pardons to Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff convicted of violating a court order stemming from his department’s treatment of Latinos, and to Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Richard B. Cheney’s chief of staff, who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice after the disclosure of a CIA officer’s identity. Nobody faced charges for the leak itself. Both decisions were made without input from the Justice Department.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told Sessions that he had once said at a congressional hearing that it would be an abuse of power for the president to pardon someone without first going through the pardon attorney. Van Hollen said he did not believe that President George W. Bush or President Obama ever granted a pardon without first conferring with the U.S. Pardon Attorney’s Office, a division of the Justice Department. Sessions said he did not know.

After the hearing, a Justice Department spokesman said that in January 2017, before leaving office, Obama granted a pardon, without a recommendation from the pardon attorney, to retired Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright, a former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

Sessions also faced questions from Democratic lawmakers about his conversations with Trump and other White House officials about matters stemming from the Russia probe, including whether Sessions has recused himself from the investigation into Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, whose office was raided by FBI agents April 9. That development was reported by Bloomberg News this week.

“It is the policy of the Department of Justice that those who have recused themselves not state the details of it or confirm the existence of an investigation or the scope of that investigation,” Sessions told the panel.

Sessions did defend his embattled deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the Russia investigation being led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, making Rosenstein a target of Trump’s attacks. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) asked Sessions for his opinion of Rosenstein. “He works every day to do the job he is called upon to do that got dropped into his lap,” Sessions replied.

Asked whether he had confidence in Rosenstein, Sessions said, “I do have confidence in him.”

He demurred, however, when asked by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) whether he would step down if Trump were to fire Rosenstein or Mueller.

“That calls for a speculative answer,” Sessions replied. “I’m not able to do that.”

[Sessions told White House that Rosenstein’s firing could prompt his departure, too]

Leahy said he was deeply concerned about the “president’s relentless and I think baseless attacks” on senior Justice Department officials, including Sessions.

“You and I are in total agreement, and that is that we care deeply about the integrity of the Justice Department . . . and I worry that the walls intended to protect independence and credibility are at risk of crumbling,” Leahy said. “You’re at the helm of a Justice Department under siege. I’ve been in [Congress] 44 years. I have never seen such attacks.”

During the hearing, Sessions testified about his priorities in the Justice Department’s $28.4 billion budget. He said one of them is “going after drug companies, doctors and pharmacists,” who, he said, are fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic.

—————

Asked by Graham if he thought the U.S. government would ever begin sending detainees to Guantanamo again “in my lifetime,” Sessions replied: “I don’t know. I just have to be honest with you. It could be if we have a surge in arrestees” captured overseas.

———-

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-citing-americas-opioid-epidemic-tells-senate-panel-hes-taking-on-drug-companies/2018/04/25/12b63f6c-489a-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html?utm_term=.94ffb0ecf596

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