Trump calls on Jeff Sessions to end Russia probe 'right now'

President Trump on Wednesday publicly called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to immediately end the “rigged witch hunt,” a phrase he uses to refer to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

“This is a terrible situation,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further.” Trump accused Mueller of being “totally conflicted” as head of the investigation, though he did not detail in the tweet what he thinks are Mueller’s alleged conflicts. Over the weekend, in another tweet, Trump called on Mueller to release his “conflicts of interest” in regards to the “very nasty” and “contentious” business relationship Trump claimed the two had.

Trump’s tweet comes as Mueller is reportedly investigating whether the president obstructed the probe into possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is on trial in Alexandria, Va., for tax evasion and bank fraud. Manafort has pleaded not guilty. Trump defended hiring Manafort, questioning why the federal government had not alerted him that he was under investigation. “These charges have nothing to do with Collusion — a Hoax!” Trump wrote.

In recent days, Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani have argued there was no collusion during the campaign, but even if there was, it would not be a crime. It’s not the first time Trump has targeted Sessions in regard to the Russia investigation. Trump has repeatedly heaped blame his attorney general for recusing himself from the probe. Trump admitted in June he would have nominated someone other than Sessions for the top job at the Department of Justice if he knew the former Alabama senator would step aside. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has also endured public attacks from the president, is in charge of oversight of the Mueller investigation. The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.

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Connecticut town official kneels for Pledge of Allegiance, met with backlash from community

A town official in Haddam, Conn., faced backlash from the community and beyond for kneeling on two separate occasions during the Pledge of Allegiance before Board of Selectmen meetings.

The first time Melissa Schlag, a Democrat, knelt for the pledge was on July 16, just hours after President Trump concluded his first bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. She was in a room only with other town officials, but the moment was caught on camera. She knelt again on Monday in front of a few hundred rowdy audience members, who showed up in anticipation of another show of protest, Fox News reported Wednesday. "I don't have to stop my free speech when I walk into a selectmen's meeting," Schlag said while the crowd booed. "I don't hate my country. I love my country. We need to continue this conversation." As she spoke after taking a knee during the pledge, many crowd members kneeled in protest against her. Some also turned their backs to her. “Are you thinking when you kneeled down to the sacred Pledge of Allegiance, that what those people died for gives you the right to do that and disrespect that?” a man questioned during a time of open comments. Another man said, “I wholeheartedly respect your right to protest, if that's what you would like to do, do that on your own time.” “When you turned your back on that flag, you turned it on half of this town,” a third man said. Many people in the crowd were wearing red, white, and blue to show support for the flag and the U.S. colors, and express distaste with Schlag’s actions.

After the meeting, while speaking with a citizen, the official said: “It’s been worse in this town. This town is fascist and racist.” Schlag confirmed that the first time she knelt for the Pledge of Allegiance was in protest of the president’s comments in Helsinki casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Trump publicly corrected his comments, claiming that he misspoke and meant to portray the exact opposite message.

The action of taking a knee in protest stems from the NFL protests where players have been kneeling during The Star-Spangled Banner before the start of each game. Many claimed they were kneeling in protest of race inequality in the U.S. That form of protest was been met with widespread backlash from football fans and Trump himself. NFL approved a rule for this season that requires players and coaches to either stand during the national anthem, or to remain in the locker room, or otherwise the team will face a fine. However, implementation of that rule was temporarily put on hold amid talks between the NFL and the NFL players' union.

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>>2389875 Kek

>>2389885 Wonder what she thinks she's proving?

>>2389992 It kind of looks like one

I have visited this area, this is a very small old town, so it won't be good for her, she will be admonished.