Donald Trump’s attacks on his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, have just been taken to an entirely new level. During an Oval Office interview with Hill.TV, Trump carried out what will definitely be considered his most vicious attack to date — he basically ignored Sessions’ existence in his administration and trashed his performance on several key issues.
During the interview, Trump said:
I don’t have an Attorney General. It’s very sad.”
EXCLUSIVE: Trump eviscerates Sessions: “I don’t have an attorney general” https://t.co/jt3a48aMAT pic.twitter.com/aIA3nod0Pa
— The Hill (@thehill) September 19, 2018
Trump has been railing against Sessions ever since the Attorney General recused himself from the Russia investigation, so we would have expected an attack related to that. However, Trump made it clear that he’s angry with Sessions for multiple reasons. The president said:
I’m not happy at the border, I’m not happy with numerous things, not just this.”
And Trump made it perfectly clear that he regretted nominating Sessions every day of his presidency:
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. And then he went through the nominating process and he did very poorly. I mean, he was mixed up and confused, and people that worked with him for, you know, a long time in the Senate were not nice to him, but he was giving very confusing answers. Answers that should have been easily answered. And that was a rough time for him.”
Trump also said that Sessions’ confusing nomination process in the Senate may have impacted his decision to recuse himself.
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.’ 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.”
During the interview, Trump also said he was still on the fence about whether or not he was going to fire Sessions, as he continued to diss him.
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,” he said, referring to the recusal decision. And my worst enemies, I mean, people that, you know, are on the other side of me, in a lot of ways including politically, have said that was a very unfair thing he did.”
We’ll see how it goes with Jeff. I’m very disappointed in Jeff. Very disappointed.”
Wow. This is definitely going to cause even more tension in Trump’s White House.
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