President Donald Trump once again harshly criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself in the Russia investigation during a recent interview with TheHillTV.
“I don’t have an attorney general. It’s very sad,” Trump said, adding, “I’m so sad over Jeff Sessions, because he came to me. He was the first Senator that endorsed me, and he wanted to be attorney general, and I didn’t see it.”
“He gets in and — probably because of the experience that he had going through the nominating — when somebody asked him the first question about Hillary Clinton or something, he said ‘I recuse myself. I recuse myself,” the president continued. “And now, it turned out he didn’t have to recuse himself. Actually, the FBI reported shortly thereafter any reason for him to recuse himself. And it’s very sad what happened.”
Trump demurred on whether he would fire Sessions soon, saying, “We’ll see what happens. A lot of people have asked me to do that. And I guess I study history, and I say I just want to leave things alone, but it was very unfair what he did.”