Grassley pissed at Sessions. Says protected him for months from public hearings on Russia.

[MelissaB]

Grassley tells me he's incensed at Jeff Sessions for torching his sentencing overhaul after Grassley stood up for him when Trump wanted to fire him and after he protected Sessions for months from Democratic demands for public hearings on Russia.

Link to tweet

'Incensed' Grassley Rips Sessions for Torching Justice Overhaul
By Steven T. Dennis
February 14, 2018, 9:37 PM EST

*Attorney general says bill could free ’very worst’ inmates
*Senator says he protected Sessions from Democrats, and Trump

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday after Sessions criticized his criminal justice overhaul a day before a committee vote.

Sessions wrote a letter charging that the legislation, if passed, could let the "very worst criminals" and gang members out of prison early. Grassley accused the attorney general of being ungrateful, saying that he had supported Sessions when President Donald Trump wanted to fire him and protected him from repeated Democratic demands for public hearings on Sessions’ contacts with Russians in 2016.

"I think it’s legitimate to be incensed and I resent it, because of what I’ve done for him. He had a tough nomination, a tough hearing in my committee," Grassley, an Iowa Republican, said in an interview in his Capitol Hill office.

"They wanted to call him back every other day for additional hearings about his Russian connection, and I shut them off of that until we had the normal oversight hearing in October I believe it was, see? And the president was going to fire him, and I backed him, you know? So why wouldn’t I be irritated?"

More: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-02-15/-incensed-grassley-rips-sessions-for-torching-justice-overhaul?__twitter_impression=true

[oasis]

1. Pure kabuki. Methinks Grassley doth protest too much.

He's full of shit up to his eyeballs.

[LonePirate]

2. Traitorous bastards each and every one of them.

[IADEMO2004]

3. Z.F.G. for you Grassley.

[DURHAM D]

4. So Grassley is admitting that he obstructed justice. nt

[Cha]

7. Excellent Point, Durham!

[Control-Z]

8. That's how I heard it. eom

[Blue Owl]

5. His assley should be grassley

n/t

[gratuitous]

6. A double-crosser got double-crossed?

Boo hoo.

Meanwhile, Grassley is bragging about shutting off hearings on Russian interference with our elections and government. Nice to know that the Senator values Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III's career over the integrity of our system.

Asshole.

[Stallion]

9. Not the Best Look for Grassley

....he ain't too smart is he?

[spanone]

10. so grassley was willing to trade our democracy for his legislation...what a patriot

[world wide wally]

11. I want to see some fisticuffs between these two