Trump: Why isn’t ‘beleaguered’ AG Jeff Sessions investigating Hillary’s Russia ties?
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times - Monday, July 24, 2017
President Trump’s questioned why “beleaguered” Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn’t investigating ties between Russia and the campaign of his former opponent, Hillary Clinton - continuing attacks on the head of the Justice Department.
“So why aren’t the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?” Mr. Trump tweeted Monday morning.
The comment comes after Mr. Trump criticized Mr. Sessions in an interview last week with The New York Times for his decision to recuse himself from the DOJ’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
“Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job, and I would have picked somebody else,” Mr. Trump told the newspaper.
Monday’s comments follow on the heels of what appears to be new line of attack against the attorney general for not going after Mr. Trump’s former Democratic opponent.
“So many people are asking why isn’t the A.G. or Special Council looking at the many Hillary Clinton or Comey crimes. 33,000 e-mails deleted?” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
Mr. Sessions responded to last week’s public rebuke from Mr. Trump on Thursday, saying he did not plan to step down and planned to continue to carry out the president’s directives as the country’s top law enforcement officer.
“I’m completely confident that we can continue to run the office in an effective way,” Mr. Sessions told reporters. “We love this job. We love this department. And I plan to continue to do so as long as is appropriate.”
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