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Originally Posted by goofyballer
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The perjury issue isn't particularly interesting to me since you can go back and forth about intent forever, but it's suuuuuuper dumb to act like Sessions wasn't lying in saying "I did not have communications with the Russians" because of the context of a question he didn't even answer.
The problem with the analogy is that you have to believe that Sessions was intending to convey that in his 20+ years in Washington he never met with anyone from Russia.
Previously when I asked if that's what the left believed he was saying, the answer was no just during the course of the campaign, that is the relevant time period. Which is also relying on the context of the question. Then your back to:
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Originally Posted by pokerodox
Sessions thing is a non-issue.
The question was "in the course of" the campaign. That's a quote from Franken's question. In the course of easily means "dealings of", "in relation to", whatever.
It would be nice if Sessions had stopped Franken and said, please clarify, when you say in the course of, do you mean during the time of, or do you mean in the dealings of, because I certainly spoke to them during that time, but not on behalf of the Trump campaign.
If we are down to pointing out how Franken out maneuvered/lawyered Sessions, fine, but now you're just saying Sessions is bad at his job. A non-issue, cuz this one event is not determinative.
Besides Patron is totally wrong, if you take his answer to be gee I am not aware of those activities, I did not have such contacts and I am not commenting on what I would do. It is directly responsive to the question, maybe not how the left wants him to answer and is not just off the wall ramblings. Saying no comment is responsive to the question.