GOP Senators Give Trump Green Light to Fire AG Jeff Sessions

Sessions issued a rare statement on Thursday, seemingly rebuking Trump directly and pledging to remain untainted by political bias in his work at the agency.

Trump then posted remarks made by Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from SC, on Friday when the senator was asked by Fox News about the acrimonious relations between Trump and Sessions: “Every President deserves an Attorney General they have confidence in”.

DiGenova – a former US attorney for the District of Columbia – and Sean Hannity discussed how it would be politically unfavorable for Trump to ever fire Sessions.

“Jeff Sessions said he wouldn’t allow politics to influence him only because he doesn’t understand what is happening underneath his command position”, Trump posted at 8:36 a.m.

In a four-minute long speech before Sessions was officially sworn in as the new U.S. Attorney General, Trump had nothing but glowing words for the man he handpicked to be the nation’s top law enforcement officer.

Trump’s tweets come amid a relentless attack on Mueller’s ongoing investigation into possible coordination between Trump’s campaign and Russian Federation in the 2016 election and whether Trump has obstructed that probe.

Since then, the investigation helmed by former FBI chief Robert Mueller has ensnared several high-profile Trump campaign operatives, most recently former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

Trump told Fox that Sessions should not have recused himself from Russia-related matters.

“I’m 100 percent behind Jeff Sessions”, Graham told CNN then. “I said, ‘what kind of a man is this?'” he said.

After the fall elections, he advised, Sessions should “give the president the courtesy of a resignation”.

But he added that forcing out Sessions before November “would create havoc” with efforts to confirm Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, as well as with midterms, which will determine whether Republicans keep control of Congress. The charges stemmed from the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The president and his allies are trying to head off mounting talk of impeachment after he was implicated as a co-conspirator in two campaign finance violations by his former lawyer Michael Cohen.

Sessions, Trump said, was the “determined attorney general” the country needed. He attacked Cohen, who once said he would “take a bullet” for Trump, for agreeing to a plea deal with prosecutors that made Trump look bad.

But citing advice from top officials at the DOJ, Sessions, who was closely involved with President Trump’s campaign, chose to recuse himself from all matters having to do with the election.

“I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job.”

“At some point I may have to get involved!” he wrote at 9:05 a.m. Given that many of them are under investigation, Trump’s exhortation is downright weird.

“Mueller is down the road”, he told reporters Thursday. “So unfair Jeff, Double Standard”, he wrote. After the campaign Trump quickly announced he would be attorney general. On one hand, White House aides have said his tweets from a personal account amount to official government statements. AMI’s general counsel, Eric Klee, did not respond to a request for comment.