In a Rose Garden Conference with the Lebanese Prime Minister, Presiden Trump said that “time will tell “if Jeff Sessions will remain as Attorney General of the United States, Politico reports.
President Trump’s has been consistent in expressing his frustration at the Attorney General in the past week, tweeting on Tuesday that the Attorney General had taken “a VERY weak position” regarding Hillary Clinton emails. Trump wrote; “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!”.
Speaking with the Wall street journal Tuesday, Trump refused to say outrightly if plans to dismiss Sessions were in the offing. “I’m just looking at it,” he said, adding that he suspected Sessions only endorsed him because he garnered massive crowds on the campaign trail. “It’s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement”, he said.
The press has seen similar rhetoric from the President since last week when he told the New York Times he would have picked someone else for the position if he knew Sessions would recuse himself from all campaign related probes.
The president told reporters Tuesday “I want the attorney general to be much tougher on the leaks from intelligence agencies, which are leaking like rarely have they ever leaked before at a very important level,” the president said. “These are intelligence agencies. We cannot have that happen. You know many of my views in addition to that, but I think that’s one of the very important things that they have to get on with.”
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