Thread: Ted Lieu Pushes Fake News, Calls Jeff Sessions a ‘Racist and a Liar’

by ADELLE NAZARIAN
24 Apr 2017

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) called Attorney General Jeff Sessions “a racist and a liar” on Sunday after he referred to Hawaii as “an island in the Pacific” in response to a federal judge who issued an order to block President Donald Trump’s temporary visa ban.

Ted Lieu ✔ @tedlieu
Dear "Attorney General" Sessions: You are a racist and a liar. Actually, just joking. Oh wait, your record shows you are a racist & a liar. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/856226450072113152 …
12:36 PM - 23 Apr 2017

“Dear ‘Attorney General’ Sessions,” Lieu wrote on his Twitter account. “You are a racist and a liar. Actually, just joking. Oh wait, your record shows you are a racist & a liar.”

However, investigations have revealed that allegations of racism and dishonesty pushed by the left to discredit Sessions are part of what has become known as “fake news.”

Prior to that tweet, Lieu attempted to mock Sessions again by reminding the accomplished attorney that “Hawaii is a state & HQ of UNITED STATES Pacific Command:”

Ted Lieu ✔ @tedlieu
Dear AG Jeff Sessions: There is a document called the Constitution. Read it. Oh, and Hawaii is a state & HQ of UNITED STATES Pacific Command https://twitter.com/HuffingtonPost/s...97766573805568 …
4:32 PM - 20 Apr 2017

Sessions made the comments about Hawaii in an interview with “The Mark Levin Show” last week.

“We’ve got cases moving in the very, very liberal Ninth Circuit, who, they’ve been hostile to the order,” Sessions said. “We are confident that the President will prevail on appeal and particularly in the Supreme Court, if not the Ninth Circuit.” He added, “I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the President of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and Constitutional power.”

Sessions’ statement was in response to federal Judge Derrick Watson’s order that blocked President Donald Trump’s temporary visa ban on travelers entering the United States from six (formerly seven) Muslim-majority countries. The temporary ban is meant to allow the U.S. government to properly vet individuals listed on it. The countries listed in the initial ban are Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen; Iraq has since been taken off the list.

The U.S. Department of Justice is appealing Judge Watson’s decision.

According to the Associated Press, U.S. Justice Department spokesman Ian Prior clarified Sessions’ statements in an email, saying the attorney general was questioning one judge’s ability to block the president’s executive order for the travel ban.

“Hawaii is, in fact, an island in the Pacific — a beautiful one where the Attorney General’s granddaughter was born,” Prior said. “The point, however, is that there is a problem when a flawed opinion by a single judge can block the President’s lawful exercise of authority to keep the entire country safe.”

In a Sunday interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” about why he referred to Hawaii as an “island in the Pacific,” Sessions said, “Nobody has a sense of humor anymore.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...st-and-a-liar/

Pacific islands by area (over 10,000 square kilometers)[edit]

This list includes all islands found in the geographic Pacific Ocean, with an area larger than 10,000 square kilometers.

Name	Area (km2)	Country or Countries	Population	Population Density	Notes
New Guinea	785,753	Indonesia & Papua New Guinea	7,500,000	9.544
Honshu	227,960	Japan	103,000,000	451.8
Sulawesi	174,600	Indonesia	18,455,000	105.7
South Island	145,836	New Zealand	1,038,600	7.122
North Island	111,583	New Zealand	3,393,900	30.42
Luzon	109,965	Philippines	48,520,000	441.2
Mindanao	104,530	Philippines	25,281,000	241.9
Tasmania	90,758	Australia	514,700	5.671
Hokkaido	77,981	Japan	5,474,000	70.2
Sakhalin	72,493	Russia	580,000	8.001
Taiwan	35,883	China	23,000,000	641
Kyushu	35,640	Japan	13,231,000	371.2
Hainan	35,400	People's Republic of China	8,900,000	251.4
New Britain	35,145	Papua New Guinea	513,926	14.62
Vancouver Island	31,285	Canada	759,366	24.27
Shikoku	18,800	Japan	4,141,955	220.3
New Caledonia	16,648	France	208,709	12.54
Palawan	12,189	Philippines	430,000	35.28
Viti Levu	10,531	Fiji	600,000	56.97
Hawaii	10,434	United States of America	185,079	17.74

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islands

Oh look, Hawaii is an island in the pacific!!