Before spending a full year publicly berating his attorney general and his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, President Donald Trump tried to get Jeff Sessions to change his mind about the probe, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Sessions was reportedly dispatched to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in March 2017 to try to get the President to make an important decision about his travel ban. Instead Trump scolded Sessions about his recusal and asked him to “reverse his decision,” in the Times’ words.
Sessions refused and the Mar-a-Lago conversation is now being probed by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the investigation into Trump’s attacks on his attorney general this past year and his attempts to get Sessions to leave the administration.
Trump was fixated on Sessions’ recusal for months last year and even floated the idea of Sessions reversing his decision to aides, people briefed on the matter told the Times. Trump reportedly argued that former President Barack Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, “would never have recused himself from a case that threatened to tarnish” Obama, and Trump told advisers he wanted that same brand of allegiance from his attorney general, according to the Times.
While Sessions and Trump used to be friends — they often had meals together and regularly spoke on the phone before the recusal, per the Times — the two now rarely speak outside of meetings and even took separate flights to attend the same event in New Hampshire in March, according to current and former White House officials who spoke with the Times.
Trump has also reportedly told friends he wants to get rid of Sessions, but won’t because Senate Republicans have signaled they won’t approved another attorney general.
You can’t help but marvel at a person who is “innocent” and the victim of a “witch hunt” who from the get go spends an inordinate amount of time and effort trying to derail said investigation.
It almost appears he has something to hide!
Seriously
As depressed as I get sometimes , I really think Mueller has the goods on him and will take down the whole corrupt grifting operation
Can someone ask Trump to un-elect himself?
I found this to be an interesting, petty waste of money…
“… the two now rarely speak outside of meetings and even took separate flights to attend the same event in New Hampshire in March …”
Because, you know, Air Force One is kind of like a 7-seat Cessna Citation. You just can’t help but having to see and talk to everyone on the plane.
Mr. Sessions discovers loyalty is a one way street with Mr. Trump.
Mueller is quietly going about his business, all the while allowing Trump to demonstrate all the different ways a President can attempt to obstruct justice. The report is going to be a beauty.