Politics: Trump Humiliated Jeff Sessions After Mueller Appointment

President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the Oval Office in February.

According to a popular political news blog The New York Times reported that Shortly after learning in May that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate links between his campaign associates and Russia, President Trump berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Oval Office meeting and said the attorney general should resign, according to current and former administration officials and others briefed on the matter.

The president blamed the appointment of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, on Mr. Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the Justice Department’s Russia investigation — a move Mr. Trump believes was the moment his administration effectively lost control over the inquiry. Accusing Mr. Sessions of “disloyalty,” Mr. Trump unleashed a string of insults on his attorney general.

Ashen and emotional, Mr. Sessions told the president he would quit and sent a resignation letter to the White House, according to four people who were told details of the meeting. Mr. Sessions would later tell associates that the demeaning way the president addressed him was the most humiliating experience in decades of public life.

The Oval Office meeting, details of which have not previously been reported, shows the intensity of Mr. Trump’s emotions as the Russia investigation gained steam and how he appeared to immediately see Mr. Mueller’s appointment as a looming problem for his administration. It also illustrates the depth of antipathy Mr. Trump has had for Mr. Sessions — one of his earliest campaign supporters — and how the president interprets “disloyalty” within his circle of advisers.

Mr. Trump ended up rejecting Mr. Sessions’s May resignation letter after senior members of his administration argued that dismissing the attorney general would only create more problems for a president who had already fired an F.B.I. director and a national security adviser. Mr. Trump once again, in July, told aides he wanted to remove Mr. Sessions, but for a second time didn’t take action.

The relationship between the two men has improved marginally since midsummer, as Mr. Sessions has made a public display of hunting for the leakers among the administration’s national security officials. His allies said that despite the humiliation, the attorney general has stayed in the job because he sees a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity as the nation’s top law enforcement official to toughen the country’s immigration policies.

But he may be losing that battle as well. Mr. Sessions played a prominent role announcing the end of the Obama-era program that provided protection to the children of undocumented immigrants, only to see his boss backtrack on the policy. On Thursday morning, Mr. Trump confirmed he had reached a deal with Democrats to provide protections for the so-called “Dreamers.”

This account is based on interviews with seven administration officials and others familiar with the interactions between Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions in recent months who requested anonymity because they are not permitted to speak publicly about confidential conversations between the president and his aides. Politico first reported in July that Mr. Sessions had once offered his resignation letter, but the circumstances that prompted the letter — and Mr. Trump’s dressing down of the attorney general — have not previously been reported.

Spokespeople for the White House and Justice Department declined to comment.

The president’s outburst came in the middle of an Oval Office meeting Mr. Trump had with top advisers on May 17, to discuss candidates to take over the F.B.I. after the president fired its director, James B. Comey, earlier that month. In addition to Mr. Sessions, Vice President Mike Pence, Donald F. McGahn III, the White House counsel, and several other aides attended the meeting.

In the middle of the meeting, Mr. McGahn received a phone call from Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who had been overseeing the Russia investigation since Mr. Sessions recused himself from the inquiry months earlier. Mr. Sessions had stepped aside after it was revealed he had not provided accurate testimony to Congress about his meetings with the Russian ambassador during the presidential campaign.

In the telephone call to Mr. McGahn, Mr. Rosenstein said he had decided to appoint Mr. Mueller to be a special counsel for the investigation. Congress had been putting pressure on Mr. Rosenstein to appoint a special counsel to put distance between the Trump administration and the Russia investigation, and just the day before The New York Times had revealed that Mr. Trump had once asked Mr. Comey to end the F.B.I.’s investigation into Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser.

When the phone call ended, Mr. McGahn relayed the news to the president and his aides. Almost immediately, Mr. Trump lobbed a volley of insults at Mr. Sessions, telling the attorney general it was his fault they were in the current situation. Mr. Trump told Mr. Sessions that choosing him to be attorney general was one of the worst decisions he had made, called him an “idiot,” and said that he should resign.

An emotional Mr. Sessions told the president he would resign and left the Oval Office. That evening, as the Justice Department publicly announced the appointment of Mr. Mueller, the attorney general wrote a brief resignation letter to the president that was later sent to the White House. A person familiar with the events raised the possibility that Mr. Sessions had become emotional because the impact of his recusal was becoming clear.

In the hours after the Oval Office meeting, however, Mr. Trump’s top advisers intervened to save Mr. Sessions’s job. Mr. Pence, Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s chief strategist at the time, and Reince Priebus, his chief of staff, all advised that accepting Mr. Sessions’s resignation would only sow more chaos inside the administration and rally Republicans in Congress against the president. Mr. Sessions, a former Alabama senator, served in the Senate for two decades.

The president relented, and eventually returned the resignation letter to Mr. Sessions — with a handwritten response on it.

For Mr. Sessions, the aggressiveness with which Mr. Trump has sought his removal was a blow. The son of a general store owner in a small town in Alabama, Mr. Sessions had long wanted to be the nation’s top federal law enforcement official or to serve in another top law enforcement or judicial post. He earned a reputation in the Senate as someone tough on immigration, and was the first senator to back Mr. Trump in the presidential campaign.

But their relationship began to deteriorate little more than a month after Mr. Trump was sworn in as president, after Mr. Sessions’s announcement that he was recusing himself from the Russia inquiry caught Mr. Trump by surprise.

The president spent months stewing about the recusal. In a July 19 interview with The Times, Mr. Trump said he never would have appointed Mr. Sessions to be attorney general if he knew he was going to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Mr. Trump called the decision “very unfair to the president.”

Days after the Times interview, Mr. Trump told aides he wanted to replace Mr. Sessions. Some of the president’s aides, not sure if Mr. Trump really wanted the attorney general gone or was just working through his anger, were able to delay the firing until the president’s anger passed.

But Mr. Trump continued his public attacks in the days that followed, including taking to Twitter to call him “weak” — a word that is among the harshest criticisms in Mr. Trump’s arsenal.

Administration officials and some of Mr. Trump’s outside advisers have puzzled at Mr. Sessions’s decision to stay on. But people close to Mr. Sessions said that he did not leave because he had a chance to have an impact on what he sees as an issue of his career: curtailing legal and illegal immigration.

In recent weeks, he has spearheaded the effort to undo what he believed to be the Obama administration’s dangerously lenient immigration policies, including the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals program.

Mr. Sessions had no illusions about converting Mr. Trump to his side of the argument — Mr. Trump remains deeply ambivalent — and he had no illusions about repairing a damaged relationship he had once regarded as a friendship. But he told people he felt he had successfully pushed the president toward ending the Obama immigration policy, and thought it had given him increased leverage in the West Wing.

The president agreed to terminate the program, and on Sept. 5 Mr. Sessions stood alone at a lectern — a moment that seemed to be a significant victory for the attorney general.

But his satisfaction was fleeting. Mr. Trump quickly undercut Mr. Sessions in a tweet by saying he would reconsider whether or not to end the program, leading the attorney general to tell allies that he was frustrated that the president had muddled months of work leading to the announcement of the new policy.

On Wednesday evening, Democrats announced they had reached a deal with the president to quickly extend protections for young undocumented immigrants.

On Thursday morning, taking a vastly different position than the one Mr. Sessions had announced on Sept. 5, the president tweeted about the need for protections for people brought here “through no fault of their own.”

Glenn Thrush contributed report and

SoTechNaija contributed report

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NECO Releases 2017June/July Examination Results | SoTechNaija

The National Examination Council has announced the release of the 2017June/July Senior School Certificate Examination results.The Registrar of the council, Prof. Charles Uwakwe, announced the results in Minna on Thursday.Uwakwe said that 1,055,988 candidates registered for the examination, among whom 1,051,472 wrote the tests in 76 subjects.

He said that 745,053 candidates, representing 70.85 per cent had five credits and above, including English Language and mathematics, in the examination.Uwakwe said the performance represented 1.11 per cent improvement in candidates’ performance compared with the 2016 results.



According to him 947,850 candidates had five credits and above irrespective of English Language and mathematics, adding that the figure represented 1.63 per cent improvement of the 2016 result.He also said that 903,690 candidates had credit in English Language, while 849,335 candidates had credit in General Mathematics.
He explained that 50,586 candidates, representing 4.81 per cent of candidates, were involved in examination malpractice.Uwakwe said the figure represented 0.52 per cent increase in cases of malpractice compared to the 2016 record.

He also said that 276 schools were involved in mass cheating in 34 states, while six schools were de-recognised for examination malpractice.Uwakwe explained that 23 supervisors who aided malpractice one way or another were blacklisted.He advised the candidates to access their results on NECO website www.mynecoexams.com (NAN)

More of this kinds will be updated on this site.. Keep visiting us for more News on WAEC, NECO, JAMB, GCE, and lots more... 

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This Woman Holds the Guinness World Record for Longest Eyelashes

When you think of beauty-related Guinness World Records, those unbelievably long, curly fingernails probably come to mind. But forget everything you thought you knew: The actual wildest body-part-related record definitely goes to the world's longest eyelashes. They're almost 5 inches long and took their owner nearly 50 years to grow. NBD.According to the Guinness World Records, You Jianxia of Shanghai, who was born in 1968, has a lash on her left upper eyelid that measures a whopping 12.4 centimeters (about 4.88 inches). And since the record was actually set on June 28, 2016, it's possible that Jianxia's eyelashes have grown even longer in the past 14 months. Do they grow that fast, though? Does she trim them? Has she considered shampooing them? Do they get split ends? Do they tickle her face? Has she ever tried Latisse? I NEED answers.

All the Guinness World Records publishers shared about Jianxia in a press release promoting the 2018 edition, which includes Jianxia's record, is that she discovered the scarily long lash "during an 18-month nature retreat she embarked on in 2013." According to the publishers, "She puts the growth down to the life she leads at one with nature." BRB, scheduling a camping trip to grow out my lashes.



Jianxia will be in good company in the Guinness World Records 2018 book, which hit shelves last week, according to the release. One particular addition includes a shockingly long set of fingernails. The latest record was set by Houston-based nail artist Ayanna Williams, 60, who grew out her nails for 23 years until they reached their current length of almost 19 feet. In case you were wondering, they can take almost an entire week to paint and make putting on pants extra difficult. And if you're interested in giving Williams a run for her money, her strategy for growing out her nails includes cleaning them daily with antibacterial soap and avoiding washing the dishes (I'm sold!).
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Bitcion Predicted to crash: Jamie Dimon Slams Bitcoin as a ‘Fraud’

• Dimon compares bitcoin to tulip mania, predicting a collapse
• Still, he says, it’s a good option for murderers, drug dealers

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said he would fire any employee trading bitcoin for being “stupid.”
The cryptocurrency “won’t end well,” he told an investor conference in New York on Tuesday, predicting it will eventually blow up. “It’s a fraud” and “worse than tulip bulbs.”
If a JPMorgan trader began trading in bitcoin, he said, “I’d fire them in a second. For two reasons: It’s against our rules, and they’re stupid. And both are dangerous.”
Bitcoin has soared in recent months, spurred by greater acceptance of the blockchain technology that underpins the exchange method and optimism that faster transaction times will encourage broader use of the cryptocurrency. Prices have climbed more than four-fold this year -- a run that has drawn debate over whether that’s a bubble.
Bitcoin slipped after Dimon’s remarks. It was down 1 percent as of 4 p.m. in New York. Last week, it slumped after reports that China plans to ban trading of virtual currencies on domestic exchanges, dealing another blow to the $150 billion cryptocurrency market.

Tulips are a reference to the mania that swept Holland in the 17th century, with speculators driving up prices of virtually worthless tulip bulbs to exorbitant levels. That didn’t end well.
In bitcoin’s case, Dimon said he’s skeptical authorities will allow a currency to exist without state oversight, especially if something goes wrong. “Someone’s going to get killed and then the government’s going to come down,” he said. “You just saw in China, governments like to control their money supply.”
Dimon differentiated between the bitcoin currency and the underlying blockchain technology, which he said can be useful. Still, he said banks’ application of blockchain “won’t be overnight.”



The bank chief said he wouldn’t short bitcoin because there’s no telling how high it will go before it collapses. The best argument he’s heard, he said, is that it can be useful to people in places with no other options -- so long as the supply of coins doesn’t surge.
“If you were in Venezuela or Ecuador or North Korea or a bunch of parts like that, or if you were a drug dealer, a murderer, stuff like that, you are better off doing it in bitcoin than U.S. dollars,” he said. “So there may be a market for that, but it’d be a limited market.”

To be sure, Dimon later noted that his daughter purchased some bitcoin.
One place where cryptocurrencies and traditional finance are coming together is at CBOE Holdings Inc., the owner of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Last month, the firm teamed up with Gemini Trust Co. -- the startup created by the Winklevoss twins made famous by the 2010 Facebook film “The Social Network” -- with a plan to offer bitcoin futures.
CBOE’s chairman and CEO, Ed Tilly, defended such efforts after Dimon’s remarks.
“Like it or not, people want exposure to bitcoin,” Tilly said. Believers can bet on its rise, and Dimon is welcome to take the other side, he said. “We’re happy to be the ones in the middle.”

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Health: Doctors Remove Stone The Size Of An Ostrich Egg From Californian Man's Bladder

A 64-year-old man had a stone the size of an ostrich egg removed from his bladder, after heading to the hospital with a pain in his side.
The man, who was also having trouble urinating, went to St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, California. CT scans taken by the doctors revealed he had a stone roughly the size of a large grapefruit or a small ostrich egg lodged in his bladder.
He also had a second, smaller stone further up his abdomen (shown in figure A).

Doctors were able to surgically remove the stones from the man. When they were removed, the "egg-shaped" stone measured 12 centimeters by 9.5 centimeters (4.7 inches by 3.7 inches). It weighed 770 grams (1.7 pounds).
The doctors reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that there were no complications and that the man will be monitored for any further recurrence of stones.

Bladder stones are small mineral deposits that can form in the bladder over time, mostly when you are dehydrated. When you are hydrated or your urine is very concentrated, minerals such as calcium or magnesium crystalize and form stones. This particular one was made of 20 percent struvite and 80 percent calcium phosphate.


Though large, this isn't the biggest stone that has been removed from a person. According to Guiness World Records, the largest weighed a whopping 1.9 kilograms (4.2 pounds) and was 17.9 centimeters (7 inches) long.
It was removed from José de Castro da Silva (aged 62) in São Paulo City, Brazil in August 2003.

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Using bleach can cause fatal lung problems | SoTechNaija | Health

DoYou know Using bleach can cause fatal lung problems?

Exposure to cleaning products just once a week could increase the risk of becoming breathless, scientists say.
Cleaning products such as bleach have been linked to serious lung conditions including bronchitis and emphysema.

Using disinfectants just once a week could increase someone's chance of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to scientists from Harvard University and the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm).

While cleaning products have previously been linked with asthma, this is believed to be the first time they have been connected to COPD - an umbrella term for conditions characterised by increasing breathlessness.
COPD affects an estimated 1.2 million people in the UK. Almost 30,000 people die from it each year.
Scientists studied data from more than 55,000 female registered nurses in America, enrolled in the US Nurses' Health Study II, which began in 1989.



Researchers focused on nurses who were still working in healthcare in 2009, and had no history of COPD, following them until May this year.
During that period, 663 nurses were diagnosed with COPD.
Exposure to disinfectants including bleach, hydrogen peroxide and alcohol was assessed.
 
Each was associated with a raised risk of COPD of between 24 and 32%.
"To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to report a link between disinfectants and COPD among healthcare workers, and to investigate specific chemicals that may underlie this association," Dr Orianne Dumas, a researcher at Inserm, said.

"We need to investigate the impact on COPD of lifetime occupational exposure to chemicals and clarify the role of each specific disinfectant.
"Two recent studies in European populations showed that working as a cleaner was associated with a higher risk of COPD."
Dr Dumas will present the study's findings at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Milan on Monday.

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Davido vs Wizkid: Top 8 Reasons Why We Think Wizkid Is Better Than Davido

 
Hi Guys,
This is another “Davido vs Wizkid” post
 We know some of you will like this and some won’t, but all the same, we’re doing our Job... sourced from comparison b|w both of them and from Naijaloaded

Lets get down to business. No long story!
Below are the 8 Reasons why Wizkid is better than Davido;

1. Wizkid Has More Hits
Random Songs can’t be classified as Hit. Hit songs are Special Kind of songs that will surely hijack the Attention of people anywhere it’s been played.
Judging by definition of hits, Wizkid surpasses Davido when it comes to hit songs.
Wizkid has loads of hit song with songs like => Ojuelegba, Pakurumo, Azonto, Love my baby, Don’t dull, Show you the Money, Holla at your boy, On top of your Matter, No lele, Tease me, Jaiye Jaiye, In My Bed, Olofofo, Oluwa lo ni, Gidi girl, Slow whine, Wiz party, Shout out, Caro, Eledumare, Daddy Yo, Roll it and many others too numerous to mention tore millions of Charts across Nigeria and Africa at large.

And the hits kept flowing since then till date.
Some months ago, we posted an Article “Wizkid vs Davido – Who Do You Think Has The Most Hits Songs?” with over 300 comments and Wizkid won with more comments than Davido...



2. Wizkid Writes 99% Of His Songs
Wizkid writes most of his songs then adds some freestyle compared to Davido that has some song controversies back then and till date.
Davido had issues with many of his Songs. We heard that of Gobe which was originally written by Password and so many other Controversies on most of his hit songs.
3. Wizkid has been able to assemble talented artists to his starboy worldwide record label unlike Davido that started with HKN Gang as a record label.
4. Wizkid has more penetration in the international scene doing collaboration with music icons all over the World.
5. Wizkid kill it with any beat maker/Producer (From Sarz to Maleek Berry, etc)

6. When it comes to Stage presence, Wizkid has lots of Fans
7. Wizkid’s Debut (Superstar) album is a classic one, which Davido is yet to achieve that.
8. There’s No question about it, he has the Better voice

Guys, Do you agree with us?
Drop your comments...

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Music: See The Reply Runtown Gave Mr Eazi For Saying Nigerian Artistes Are Using His Sound Formula (Watch Video)

Enough has been said about the merger between the Ghanaian and Nigerian sound since Mr Eazi introduced the Banku music to us. 
The singer who schooled in Ghana was recently quoted throwing shades at Nigerian artistes for using the ‘Mr Eazi formular’ in their sound. Eazi, in an interview with Capital Xtra fm claimed he started the movement and now 60% of Nigerian artistes are jumping on it. Well, ‘mad over you‘, Runtown after seeing Eazi’s interview tweeted what looks like a subtle reply to Mr Eazi’s claim.

Source: Naijaloaded

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Nnamdi Kanu: Police react as soldiers ‘storm’ Nnamdi Kanu’s residence

Two conflicting accounts have emerged about the incident that played out at the home of separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu, in Abia State on Sunday.
While Mr. Kanu said the soldiers stormed his residence and injured occupants in an attempt to take his life; the police said military personnel were only carrying out a procession to test a new armoured carrier.

“There was no attack on the home of Nnamdi Kanu,” Abia police commissioner, Leye Oyebade, told PREMIUM TIMES by telephone Sunday evening.

“What happened was that the military was parading a new armoured carrier and passed through Nnamdi Kanu’s residence.

“It was while they were passing that some people threw stones and other things at them,” Mr. Oyebade explained.

The police chief said normalcy has been restored and no life was lost during the minor skirmish and Mr. Kanu was neither targeted nor arrested.
But Mr. Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, had painted a different account of what transpired at the home of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, saying there was a siege.
In a statement Mr. Ejiofor accused the Buhari administration of attempting to take his client’s life.

“Just to alert the world that the Nigeria military personnel under the command of Chief of Army Staff is presently laying a siege on my client (Nnamdi Kanu) country home in umuahia.

“They had continued to shot sporadically into the air through which assault, about five of his family members were brutally wounded and some unfortunately killed. There is no doubt that the present deployment of troops to the South East is to haunt for my client and possibly eliminate him,” the statement said.

Mr. Ejiofor added that if something goes wrong with his client’s life, the international would hold the country’s president responsible.

 “Let the whole world know that if anything untoward happen to my client, that President Buhari and his Chief of Army Staff should be held responsible by the international Community.

” We are presently counting the number of casualties as the onslaught progress.  The world should be immediately notified about the tension in Biafra land, created by the government in power.  We must adopt all know legal mechanism to resist the unconstitutional but violent approach in dealing with unarmed people merely operating within the confines of law. Buhari must be held responsible.
“We are ready to present our case once more before the International Court of Justice.



The families that lost their beloved ones in the last year may 29th violent attack by the military are yet to recover from the shock of losing their love ones. This situation must be arrested in time. ”
The Army spokesperson, Sani Usman, did not respond to calls to seek the Army’s official reaction to the incident.

The Nigerian government is currently pursuing revocation of Mr. Kanu’s bail, after the IPOB leader allegedly breached the conditions of his bail which was granted to him by the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, where he faces treason charges.
The revocation motion, which was filed by the Attorney-General Abubakar Malami, is expected to be heard in October.

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