“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough compared President Trump to “a four-year-old smearing chocolate on the side of a wall” when discussing his relationship with Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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“I think it’s so cute that this president thinks that attorney generals are supposed to be their personal lawyers,” Scarborough. “And by cute, I mean completely ignorant, something that a four-year-old … smearing chocolate on the side of a wall might think.”
“Not cute at all, actually pretty depressing,” he added.
Sessions recused himself from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation into the 2016 presidential election because of his close relationship with the Trump campaign.
Trump tweeted Wednesday that he wishes he had picked someone else for attorney general:
Rep.Trey Gowdy, “I don’t think so, I think what the President is doing is expressing frustration that Attorney General Sessions should have shared these reasons for recusal before he took the job, not afterward. If I were the President and I picked someone to be the country’s….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018
….chief law enforcement officer, and they told me later, ‘oh by the way I’m not going to be able to participate in the most important case in the office, I would be frustrated too…and that’s how I read that – Senator Sessions, why didn’t you tell me before I picked you…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018
….There are lots of really good lawyers in the country, he could have picked somebody else!” And I wish I did!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018
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