Trump Bashes Attorney General on Twitter, Stops Short of Asking for Resignation

His intensifying criticism has fueled speculation that the attorney general may step down even if the president stops short of firing him.

President Donald Trump’s new White House communications director and one of his attorneys insisted on Sunday that Trump was not thinking about pardoning himself, members of his family or anyone else in connection with the Russian Federation investigation.

But Trump’s comment about pardons, tucked into an attack on the media, raised the possibility that he was considering his options if the investigations do not turn out the way he hopes.

But even without saying a word, the former Federal Bureau of Investigation director and no-nonsense prosecutor has deeply unnerved the occupants of the White House just eight blocks away, especially President Donald Trump, over where his probe is going.

Reuters has not confirmed the newspaper accounts. On July 22, he tweeted that “the US president has complete power to pardon”.

“You don’t hire the kind of A team that Mueller has assembled unless you believe you’re going to get the goods”, this source continued.

Asked about Trump’s criticism of the special counsel, Collins responded: “I understand how hard and frustrating this investigation is for the president”.

President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One, Saturday, July 22, 2017, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to Naval Air Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Va., to attend the commissioning ceremony of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78). Sessions himself had met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak before the election as a representative of the Trump campaign and thus stepped aside from the probe.

Sessions recused himself from the probe in March after having failed to disclose at his confirmation hearing that he had held meetings a year ago with Russia’s ambassador. In a remarkable interview with The New York Times last week, Trump said that “a special counsel should never have been appointed”.

“Many Americans must be wondering if the president is trying to pry open the office of attorney general to appoint someone during the August recess who will fire special counsel [Robert] Mueller and shut down the Russian investigation”, Schumer said.

On a day when most people are ready to forget about the issues that nagged them during the week, Trump revved up. “33,000 emails deleted.”, he tweeted.

Along the U.S. -Mexico border.

After the president questioned his judgment and competence in an interview Wednesday with The New York Times – and said Sessions’ decision to recuse himself from the FBI’s Russian Federation investigation was “extremely unfair” – Sessions was asked for comment.

Given that possible Trump campaign collusion with the Russians is a focus of the investigation and his prominent role in that campaign, Sessions had no alternative. Congressional committees also are exploring Russia’s influence on the USA election. Until then, he had only given one public speech-at a technology conference at the White House-in more than two years of his involvement with the Trump campaign, even as his wife, brothers- and sisters-in-law, mother-in-law, and fellow senior staffers stumped and spoke on behalf of Trump.

Trump left yesterday morning for a short trip to Norfolk, Virginia, where was present for the commissioning ceremony for an aircraft carrier, the Gerald R Ford, named after the former United States president.

Here’s an exotic one: White House advisers told the Post that Mueller once had a dispute with the Trump National Golf Course near Washington over membership fees.