Finally! Jeff Sessions fires back at Trump's latest slam ("DOJ won't be 'improperly influenced' by politics")
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President Trump and Jeff Sessions. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/File)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired back Thursday at President Trump for saying he “never took control of the Justice Department,” putting out a sharp statement vowing the agency won’t be “improperly influenced” by politics.
Trump had made the comments in a wide-ranging interview with “Fox & Friends.” The president, on the heels of the first guilty verdict from a trial connected to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe, continued to fume over Sessions' recusal from the Russia investigation.
"Jeff Sessions never took control of the Justice Department, and it's a sort of an incredible thing," Trump claimed.
But Sessions countered in a written statement:
“I took control of the Department of Justice the day I was sworn in , which is why we have had unprecedented success at effectuating the President’s agenda—one that protects the safety and security rights of the American people, reduces violent crime, enforces our immigration laws, promotes economic growth, and advances religious liberty.”
The president for months has railed against Sessions over his recusal, but the attorney general has hung on, occasionally pushing back publicly. The president discussed Sessions when asked in the Fox News interview if he would fire his AG and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein after the midterms.
“But when everybody sees what’s going on in the Justice Department—I always put ‘justice’ now with quotes—it’s a very, very sad day. Jeff Sessions recused himself, which he shouldn’t have done. Or he should have told me,” Trump told Ainsley Earhardt. “Even my enemies say that Jeff Sessions should have told you that he was going to recuse himself and then you wouldn’t have put him in. He took the job and then he said I’m going to recuse myself.
I said, ‘what kind of a man is this?’”
Well. if Trump choose to hire him, he must be the very best type of man. Because as Trump has repeatedly stated-- he only hires the very best. (Just like when he hired Manafort to run his campaign, Cohen to be his fixer...and Omorosa to be . . . well . . . Omorosa!)