House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Friday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is “almost pathetic” for arguing that his two contacts with the Russian ambassador during the election had no relevance to President Trump’s campaign.
“It’s almost pathetic — almost pathetic,” she said in an event hosted by Politico. “So for him to go before the Congress” and say he didn’t meet with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, “he did not tell the truth,” she concluded.
Sessions and the Trump administration have said he did not explain his meetings during his confirmation hearing in January because he was asked about campaign-related contacts he might have had. Sessions said then and in a press conference Thursday that he did not discuss the campaign in his two meetings with Kislyak.
“Everybody knew that [Russia] was hacking our system,” Pelosi said Friday. She said that for Sessions to say his meetings had nothing to do with politics is “beyond naïve.”
It’s OK for American politicians to meet with Russian officials but “everything is about timing,” she said, adding that Sessions’ timing is suspect.
“The very idea that the top cop would go before his colleagues and withhold the truth … it’s just a reflection of the weak moral authority of this administration if they support what he is doing,” Pelosi said.
