Trump: ‘I Wish’ I Didn’t Pick Jeff Sessions To Be Attorney General

MANCHESTER, NH - MARCH 19: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions listens as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech on his administration's plans to combat the opioid crisis at Manchester Community College in Man... MANCHESTER, NH - MARCH 19: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions listens as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech on his administration's plans to combat the opioid crisis at Manchester Community College in Manchester, NH on March 19, 2018. (Photo by Keith Bedford/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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In a series of tweet quoting Rep. Trey Gowdy’s (R-SC) comments about Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Fox News Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump admitted he wished he had picked a different lawyer to lead to Justice Department.

“I wish I did!” he said.

The tweet comes amid a report from the New York Times Tuesday evening that Trump asked Sessions to reverse his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation last March. Sessions declined, according to the Times.

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  1. And we wish you hadn’t been elected. Or even lived. But wishes don’t always come true.

  2. And yet the little dignity wraith is still there.

  3. Avatar for ghost ghost says:

    He used to be a 12 year old. Now he’s a petulant 5 year old (whose overindulgent mommy is writing tweets for him).

  4. I love the sound of Trumpian panic in the morning. It sounds like…VICTORY.

  5. Keep pissing off the Republican Senators, stable genius. See how much good it does you.

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