AG Sessions Acknowledges Trump’s Fury Over His Recusal – Dodges Question About Resignation

On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions acknowledged President Trump’s frustrations and fury over his recusal.

Jeff Sessions went AWOL day one on the job–even worse, he cited the wrong law when he recused himself.

President Trump has been hammering Jeff Sessions lately, and understandably so.

Most recently, in a “60 Minutes” interview which aired Sunday evening, the President said he’s “very disappointed” in Jeff Sessions.

Reporters pressed Jeff Sessions on Tuesday over his strained relationship with President Trump during a Justice Department news conference.

“Do you believe the President is pressuring you to resign? Or has he ever said anything to you privately to pressure you or encourage you to resign?” a reporter asked Sessions.

AG Sessions dodged the reporter’s question by responding, “The president speaks his mind. He says what’s on his mind at the time and he’s been frustrated about my recusal and other matters, but we have been so pleased and honored to be given the responsibility to execute his agenda at the Department of Justice. Part of that is just this kind of case and so I am pleased and honored to have that responsibility and will do so as long as it’s appropriate to do so.”

When a reporter pressed Sessions again if the President has pressured him in private to resign, Sessions awkwardly answered, “Um, I think so…”

Jeff Sessions rarely publicly addresses his strained relationship with the President; he usually remains silent after Trump batters him in tweetstorms or interviews.

There is no justice in the Justice Department under Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

On Tuesday, the Office of the Inspector General announced a senior FBI official will not face prosecution by the DOJ even though he violated federal law by accepting gifts from a prohibited source, a member of the media.

The senior FBI official then lied under oath to federal investigators about accepting the gifts from a member of the media–He still got away with it, was able to retire and presumably collect a pension.

In contrast, under Sessions’ watch, Mike Flynn and George Papadopoulos were both charged with lying to the FBI.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/ag-sessions-acknowledges-trumps-fury-over-his-recusal-dodges-question-about-resignation-video/

ND-Sen: Victims furious after Heidi Heitkamp campaign identifies abuse survivors in ad

North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) issued an apology Tuesday after wrongly publishing women’s names in an open letter to her GOP challenger, Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.).

The full-page ad — published in several North Dakota newspapers Sunday — was aimed at shaming Cramer for recent comments he made about the #MeToo movement. However, it included the names of women who had not given their consent to be publicly exposed — and others who weren’t victims at all.

What are the details?

Last week, The New York Times reported that Cramer said the women in his family “cannot understand this movement toward victimization,” referring to the #MeToo movement. Cramer said of his wife, daughters, mother, and mother-in-law, “They are pioneers of the prairie. These are tough people whose grandparents were tough and great-grandparents were tough.”

In response to Cramer’s comments, the Heitkamp campaign issued the letter condemning his comments and included the names of 127 signatories who were purportedly victims of sexual assault, violence, or rape. But some of the women named have come forward with outrage that their names were listed as signors, because they had no knowledge of the letter prior to it being published.

The Daily Wire reported that one of those named, Kady Miller, posted pictures of the letter in a private Bismarck Facebook group, saying, “This was posted in the Bismarck Tribune. I know a lot of these people listed, including me, did not give anyone permission for our names to be posted. I don’t even support Heidi Heitkamp and I am not a domestic abuse survivor. Should this even be legal?? Using people’s names as part of your campaign??”

Another woman, Lexi Zhorela, told The Associated Press that she found out she was listed in the letter because one of her Facebook friends had tagged her in a post who was aware that she was a sexual assault victim.

“I’m furious,” Zhorela said, “I know I’m not the only woman hurt by this. I have only shared my story with a couple of people in confidence. I didn’t want it blasted for the world to see.”

How did the candidates respond?

According to the Grand Forks Herald, Heitkamp apologized in a statement on Tuesday, admitting that her campaign discovered “several of the women’s names who were provided to us did not authorize their names to be shared or were not survivors of abuse.”

Heitkamp’s statement went on to say, “I deeply regret this mistake and we are in the process of issuing a retraction, personally apologizing to each of the people impacted by this and taking the necessary steps to ensure this never happens again.”

Cramer told the AP in response, “This is what happens when desperate people do things for their own personal political gain. [Heitkamp] proved a point that her personal politics matter more than someone’s personal pain.” He called the ad a “re-victimization of victims.”

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/10/16/nd-sen-victims-furious-after-heidi-heitkamp-campaign-identifies-abuse-survivors-in-ad

'Guilty Until Proven Innocent': Trump Sticks Up For Saudi Arabia

US President Donald Trump rose to the defense of Riyadh again on Tuesday as the case of missing Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi looms large.

The American press corps has been virtually unanimous in its condemnation of the Saudi Arabian government for allegedly killing the journalist at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month, yet nearly every important fact has been anonymously sourced while solid evidence remains difficult to come by. Pinning the blame on the Saudis before knowing all the facts is yet another case of "guilty until proven innocent," Trump said in an interview with the AP.

"Here we go again with you're guilty until proven innocent."

Trump's quote inverts one of the long standing principles of the US and UK justice systems: one is presumed innocent of a crime until proven otherwise.

On Monday, Trump told reporters that "rogue killers" might have been responsible for the journalist's disappearance. Multiple reports have alleged gruesome depiction of the Washington resident's fate, including one report that Saudi operatives flew into Istanbul and dismembered Khashoggi's body with a bonesaw. These reports have not been verified.

https://sputniknews.com/news/201810171068946766-Guilty-Until-Proven-Innocent-Trump-Sticks-Up-For-Saudi-Arabia/

21 Countries with ‘golden passports’ they don’t want you to know about

A blacklist of 21 countries whose so-called “golden passport” schemes threaten international efforts to combat tax evasion has been published by the west’s leading economic thinktank.

Three European countries – Malta, Monaco and Cyprus – are among those nations flagged as operating high-risk schemes that sell either residency or citizenship in a report released on Tuesday by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The Paris-based body has raised the alarm about the fast-expanding $3bn (£2.3bn) citizenship by investment industry, which has turned nationality into a marketable commodity.

In exchange for donations to a sovereign trust fund, or investments in property or government bonds, foreign nationals can become citizens of countries in which they have never lived. Other schemes, such as that operated by the UK, offer residency in exchange for sizable investments.

The programme operated by Malta is particularly popular because as a European member state its nationals, including those who buy citizenship, can live and work anywhere in the EU. The country has, since 2014, sold citizenship to more than 700 people, most of them from Russia, the former Soviet bloc, China and the Middle East.

But concern is growing among political leaders, law enforcement and intelligence agencies that the schemes are open to abuse by criminals and sanctions-busting business people.

https://govtslaves.info/2018/10/16/21-countries-with-golden-passports-they-dont-want-you-to-know-about/

Khashoggi Family Had Deep Connections to Lockheed Martin, Saudi Power Struggles

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who is feared murdered by the Saudi government in its consulate in Istanbul, was much more than a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS): he was a figure connected to some of the highest echelons of power in the US and Saudi Arabia.

Whitney Webb, staff writer at MintPress News and author of a recent piece on the disappeared Saudi journalist, joined Radio Sputnik's Fault Lines on Tuesday to flesh out Khashoggi's personal and family history and his deep connections to the military-industrial complex in the United States, as well as the highest levels of the Saudi state, in an effort to understand why the US is reacting so strongly to his presumed death at Saudi hands.

Noting that the Saudi government has gotten away with the massive death toll of its war in Yemen as well as its intense repression of its own citizens without much in the way of international condemnation, Webb said that it's odd that they are getting so much flak now: "This one journalist disappears and it's a big problem."

Is it because sending a hit squad to kill or kidnap a journalist on foreign soil is beyond the pale? Perhaps, but she noted that not much was said when Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, after allegedly being forced to resign his post November 2017 while in in his home country of Saudi Arabia, was forcibly detained by Saudi agents in Riyadh only days later and his family threatened, Lebanese sources claimed at the time.

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201810171068946448-Khashoggi-Family-Ties-Lockheed-Saudi-Struggles/

HEY MIKA WHAT'S YOUR DAD DOIN?

Osama bin Laden with Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1979 (source unconfirmed)

https://www.globalresearch.ca/al-qaeda-the-database-2/24738

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He'd know (((they))) already have his DNA