Trump assails Sessions for pursuing two Republicans' cases
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Trump assails Sessions for pursuing two Republicans' cases
AFP 22 hours ago 
Democrats have long expressed disdain for US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but some now see him as a bulwark against attacks on the Justice Department (AFP Photo/KEVIN DIETSCH)Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack Monday on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying his party could lose two "easy" races in November after the Justice Department filed charges against Republican congressmen.
"Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt," Trump tweeted.
"Good job Jeff," he added sarcastically.
Trump has frequently pilloried Sessions for recusing himself from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of possible collusion with Russia to tilt the 2016 US election toward the real estate billionaire.
The president has waged a strikingly public campaign against the Alabama Republican he named to the top law enforcement post.
That has left the attorney general's position seeming tenuous at best, though Trump recently told Bloomberg News that Sessions was safe, at least until after the November mid-term elections.
Chris Collins of New York was indicted on insider trading charges, which he has denied, while Duncan Hunter of California was accused with his wife of using campaign donations for personal purposes. Hunter has said his wife handled the campaign money.
Both men had been expected to face easy re-election campaigns.
Trump's suggestion that Sessions should have withheld charges against two fellow Republicans for purely political reasons seemed a remarkably unapologetic blurring of a traditional line between presidential authority and the law.
While there have been exceptions, longstanding protocol holds that the Justice Department should be left to operate free of political influence from the White House.
Under pressure from Trump, Sessions issued an unusual statement last month saying that "while I am attorney general, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations."
Democrats have long expressed disdain for Sessions, a former Alabama senator, as an intolerant relic of the racist Old South.
But some now see him as a bulwark against attacks on the Justice Department.
"The Democrats, none of whom voted for Jeff Sessions, must love him now," Trump quipped.
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Trump thinks that the DOJ should only persecute people he doesn't like or agree with. Kelly said trump is fucking stupid. Spot on.
Trump is under the impression that the government works for him specifically. Obviously, he is wrong. The government works for the PEOPLE of the country, not just trump.
This is what happens when you vote for a criminal that has no clue how the government works. Sad.
Trump said that if I voted for Hillary, I would be voting for a criminal president that would be under investigation from day one.
He was right.
I voted for Hillary and I have a president that is a criminal and has been under investigation since day one.
The evidence against the two is very substantial and yet Trump thinks that the DOJ job is to protect swamp dwellers.
How sad is that.
Trump thinks the AG should be his personal consigliere like Roy Cohn was, and the job of the DoJ is run interference for the GOP.
well if i was sessions i would stay on the job just to push trumps buttons and make him decide how much of an ass he wants to continue to appear be.
Sessions really could possibly allow damage to get to trump, thus i am not sure why trump doesn't see that as an after effect result of all this bitching at this man, he does.
But at this point, i see something big coming for trump and then i see sessions doing the photo op like a break dancer who just downed his rival (arms folder with the look) mic drop !!!
It's funny how a racist and homophobe like Sessions is one of the very few people in the Trump regime who has any self-respect or any respect at all for the constitution.