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President Donald Trump's criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not wise, according to former attorney general Eric Holder, who served in that role during the Obamaadministration.

"Unprecedented, unwise, and ultimately not helpful to the president. You know, it could be argued that it betrays a mindset of concern. It might be said to evince some consciousness of guilt or some concern that those who are acting independently might do something to him that is negative in nature and that if his appointed attorney general was still in charge, he might not be in as bad a position," Holder said Monday on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show."

Holder's reference to "those who are acting independently" apparently referred to Robert Mueller's probe into alleged Russian collusion, from which Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself.

"There are going to be things that an attorney general is going to do that the president is not going to agree with, and a president really is just going to kind of suck it up and say that the A.G. has the responsibility to enforce the laws. He's got national security responsibilities, and he is an independent actor in a way that other cabinet officials are not," Holder said in the Maddow interview.

Holder added that reports of Trump meeting with nominees for U.S. attorney are "unprecedented . . .you're not supposed to have any contacts a U.S. attorney is not supposed to have any contacts with the White House, except through the Justice Department."

However, he added that Trump meeting with the nominees was not "legally inappropriate."

"With so many things that he does, it's just not the way things are done. It is not the tradition," Holder said in the Maddow interview.

Holder has been a critic of the Trump administration. On Wednesday, he said the administration's policies on crime were "not smart, not tough."

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Donald Trumps claims that former president Barack Obama never reached out to the families of fallen solders on Monday really rubbed former attorney general Eric Holder the wrong way.

Holder took to Twitter later that night to denounce Trump and set the record straight.

Stop the damn lying youre the President. I went to Dover AFB with 44 and saw him comfort the families of both the fallen military & DEA, Holder wrote.

He even pulled out his archive of receipts to tweet a photo of him and Obama saluting alongside four soldiers.

During a press conference in the rose garden, Trump said the following when pressed about four soldiers who died on the ground in Niger in early October.

The traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didnt make calls, a lot of them didnt make calls, Trump said.

I like to call when its appropriate, when I think Im able to do it, he continued.

Of course when pressed about his accusation, Trump resorted to his usual excuse, saying that he was told that information.

One thing is for sure, between former White House photographer Pete Souza and Holder, Trump will continuously get checked when he tries to come for their main man Barack.

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder called out President Donald Trumps false remark about former POTUS Barack Obama on Monday, where he claimed that his predecessor did not care enough personally call the families of fallen U.S. soldiers.

Holder urged Trump to Stop lying, posting a photo that showed him standing alongside Obama inthe Dover air force base,Delaware, where both of them comforted the families of the fallen soldiers of the Military and the DEA.

Holders tweet was sparked from a comment that Trump made during an impromptu press conference that he held in the White House Rose Garden on Monday afternoon.

During the conference, he was asked about his silence following the killing of four Army Green Beret soldiers in Niger on Oct. 4. At this, the president replied saying that he had personally taken the time to write a letter to each one of their families and that he would call them up at some point. He went on to remark that while he finds ample time in his busy schedule to attend to something like this,Obama never made it a priority.

"Now it gets to a point where you know, you make four or five of them in one day, its a very, very tough day," Trump said, The Star reported."For me, thats by far the toughest. So the traditional way if you look at President Obama and other presidents most of em didnt make calls, a lot of em didnt make calls. I like to call when its appropriate when I think Im able to do it. They have made the ultimate sacrifice. So generally I would say that I like to call."

Former Attorney General Eric holder called out President Donald Trump for lying about Former President Barack Obama. In this photo, former President Barack Obama (L) and former Attorney General Eric Holder attend the National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., May 15, 2013. Photo: Getty Images/ Chip Somodevilla

However, as soon as NBC reporter Peter Alexander challenged Trump to present proof of the fact that his predecessor did not care about the families of U.S. soldiers, the president started to backtrack on his allegation.

I dont know if he did, Trump said. I was told that he didnt often, and a lot of presidents dont. President Obama, I think, probably did sometimes, and maybe sometimes he didnt, I dont know, thats what I was told. All I can do is ask my generals.

This is not the only time that Trump had refused to take responsibility for the inaccuracies in his knowledge about a subject. After he falsely claimed back in February, during a press conference that he had won with the biggest Electoral College margin of victory since former President Ronald Reagan, he was challenged to prove the fact by a reporter. I was given that information, Trump said at the time.

Many Twitter users reacted to Holder's evidence that defended Obama's honor and presidential record:

During Mondays press briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Trumps comment by saying that the president was stating a fact when he said that many of the former presidents did not habitually call the families of fallen soldiers. She further directed a statement to all the former Obama aides: Individuals claiming former presidents, like their bosses, called each family of the fallen, are mistaken.

However, former Obama aide Tommy Vietor told the Star: President Obama spent time with families of the fallen throughout his presidency through letters, calls, visits to Section 60 (for soldiers killed in the War on Terror) at Arlington and regular meetings with Gold Star families.

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For a brief period, it appeared the whole NFL kneeling thing was winding down and then bam, back to the drawing board, boys, as Commissioner Roger Goodell apparently didnt tell football players they had to stand for the national anthem, after all.

Whew. For a second there, it seemed like there was going to be a run on Doritos and dip. The groceries, and Sunday snack stashes, appear safe, at least for the time being.

Heres the latest in this whole fake social justice fight fake, because its based on a false narrative that white police randomly and rampantly target blacks and minorities to gun down and kill. Think Colin Kaepernick, circa August 2016, decked in police pig socks.

Anyhow: President Donald Trump has been on the right side of this NFL kneeling issue from the start, calling out league officials for allowing their paid players to use the football field their place of business for political protests. And just this week, Trump took to Twitter to suggest that stripping the NFL of its tax breaks would be a smart move.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders clarified that Trump was referring to the billions of taxpayer dollars that go into the subsidizing of professional sports stadiums.

If this industry [the NFL] is going to use money from American taxpayers to build the very fields they play on, is it really too much to ask that they show respect for the American flag at the beginning of the game? she asked.

No, no it isnt.

Goodell then weighed in, saying the league just needed to move past this controversy, and that we believe everyone should stand for the National Anthem.

How nice. Goodell, who helped fuel the controversy in the first place by refusing to tell players to get off their knees, now wants everybody to move on to play ball, so to speak. Pretty, pretty please, he says. Well, there are matters still to be resolved particularly since the NFL, in response to media reports that claimed Goodell told players to stand up, put out this clarifier: Umm, Goodell didnt say to stand.

Commentary, the message from the NFLread, about the commissioners position on the anthem is not accurate. [T]here will be a discussion of these issues at the owners meeting next week.

Well, dont look for the solution to come from this meeting, either.

The whole anthem-kneeling stunt has little to do with police brutality or police bias or truth, for that matter. Rather, it has to do with fighting a race war that was really ratcheted under the previous White House administration.

It has to do with Eric Holder rather, the Eric Holder style of race warfare.

Holder, the attorney general for Barack Obama, spent much of his federal stint pressing causes for the Oppressed Black Man freeing the felons, for instance, whose crimes he insisted were rooted in skin color, or putting the federal screws to local police, or delivering speeches that labeled the United States as a nation of cowards for failing to discuss and adopt his personal views of race.

Well, Holder may be gone. But his spirit lives on. And its that spirit that seems to be driving much of the NFL players dig-in for kneeling.

NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith has been a busy man-about-town lately, blasting team owners who wont let their players kneel, releasing statements to the press about the poor players rights to free speech and so forth. And Smiths background?

Well, he worked as a trial lawyer and as a counsel to then-Deputy Attorney General Holder in the Department of Justice.

The apple doesnt fall far from the tree, does it?

These days, the NFL seems a lot more like an Obama-Holder face-off against perceived social injustices than it does an arena for professional athleticism. That one of the leading NFL voices of this social justice crusade is directly tied to Holder and that he was probably mentored and guided and influenced by Holder only makes perfect, absolute perfect, sense.

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If Las Vegas took bets on whether recently departed Attorney General Eric Holder would return to corporate law firm Covington & Burling, the casinos would have run out of money faster than Greek banks. Newborn infants could have guessed at a homecoming for the former partner at Covington from 2001 to 2009. Last year, Holder bought a condo 300 feet from the firms headquarters. The National Law Journal headlined the news, Holders Return to Covington Was Six Years in the Making, as if acting as the nations top law enforcement officer was a temp gig. They even kept an 11th-floor corner office empty for his return.

If we had a more aggressive media, this would be an enormous scandal, more than the decamping of former Obama Administration officials to places like Uber and Amazon. That's because practically no law firm has done more to protect Wall Street executives from the consequences of their criminal activities than Covington & Burling. Their roster of clients includes every mega-bank in America: JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Bank of America. Yet Holder has joined several of his ex-employees there, creating a shadow Justice Department and an unquestionable conflict of interest. In fact, given the pathetic fashion in which DoJ limited punishment for those who caused the greatest economic meltdown in 80 years, Holders new job looks a lot like his old job.

You could actually make a plausible argument that Covington & Burling bears responsibility for the Great Recession: In the late 1990s, Covington lawyers drafted the legal justification for MERS, the private electronic database that facilitated mortgage-backed securities trading. MERS saved banks from having to submit documents and fees with county land recording offices each time they transferred mortgages. So its unlikely you would have seen mortgage securitization at such a high volume without MERS, and by proxy, without those legal opinions. Of course, securitization drove subprime lending, the housing bubble, its eventual crash and the financial meltdown that followed. Though evidence pointed to MERS implication in the mass document fraud scandal that infected the foreclosure process, former Covington lawyer Holder never prosecuted them, and now hes back with the old team.

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