Sanders Blasts Sessions, Demands He Resign
Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday joined the growing list of Democrats that are calling on Attorney General Sessions to resign. Sessions lied during his Senate confirmation hearing about whether he had contact with Russia during the campaign. The Washington Post reported Wednesday night that Sessions spoke at least twice with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 campaign, one of those times being during an event at the Republican National Convention.
Senator Sanders called the report “deeply disturbing.”
“Attorney General Sessions should resign and a special prosecutor should be appointed to give the American people credible answers about Russia’s involvement in the U.S. election,” Sanders said in a statement.
Here is Senator Sanders’s full statement:
Millions of Americans are deeply concerned about the possibility that the Trump administration colluded with President Putin and the Russian authoritarian government to win the presidential election. It is deeply disturbing that then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, under oath at a Senate confirmation hearing, falsely denied having met with the Russian ambassador.
We need a Justice Department that will give us the facts about Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election and their ties to the Trump campaign, not one led by someone who deliberately misled Congress about his own communications with the Russian government. We also must find out what President Trump knew about meetings involving his campaign and the Russians.
Attorney General Sessions should resign and a special prosecutor should be appointed to give the American people credible answers about Russia’s involvement in the U.S. election.
“We need a Justice Department that will give us the facts about Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election and their ties to the Trump campaign, not one led by someone who deliberately misled Congress about his own communications with the Russian government,” Sanders continued.
Other prominent Democrats that have called for Sessions to resign include Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren and Elijah Cummings.
RELATED:
Pro-Sessions Dem Sen. Manchin Says AG Should Resign If He Lied
