Originally Posted by Owain
Originally Posted by Goriom
Originally Posted by Owain
Not in the context of the question asked, which is what the government would have to prove to secure a perjury conviction.

As far as answering Franken's question goes, it was a convoluted meandering word salad of a question, so it's not surprising that Sessions gave up trying to tease an actual question out of it, and responded as he did.



It doesn't necessarily matter if he was asked a specific question or not. Old white power Jeff brought up voluntarily that he had no contact with Russians. This was a lie. Lying to congress constitutes perjury.

per·ju·ry
ˈpərj(ə)rē/
nounLAW
the offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation.

Which is why perjury convictions are obtained in a court of law, not on the KGB Oracle.



Yes, yes. Lets see how this all plays out.