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Sessions says he will stay in job 'as long as that is appropriate,' despite Trump rebuke - Chicago Tribune
I don't care for Jeff Sessions' future. That said, I can understand the pressure to immediately react to the President's comments. Trump threw Sessions under the bus by saying he shouldn't have recused himself. Instead of supporting Sessions and standing by his decision, Trump went after a loyal supporter. Trump also accused the guy with being unfair to the president.
I cannot see this looking good for Republicans in DC. Supporters of Trump or not, I can't see people cozying up to this administration.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he has no immediate plans to resign a day after President Donald Trump excoriated the nation's top prosecutor for recusing himself from the probe of suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.
"We love this job, we love this department and I plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate," he said Friday.
A former senator from Alabama, Sessions was one of Trump's earliest and ardent supporters and became attorney general in February. A month later, he took himself out of a Justice Department-led inquiry into the election following revelations he'd failed to disclose meetings with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
Trump on Wednesday told The New York Times he never would have tapped Sessions for the job had he known a recusal was coming.
I don't care for Jeff Sessions' future. That said, I can understand the pressure to immediately react to the President's comments. Trump threw Sessions under the bus by saying he shouldn't have recused himself. Instead of supporting Sessions and standing by his decision, Trump went after a loyal supporter. Trump also accused the guy with being unfair to the president.
I cannot see this looking good for Republicans in DC. Supporters of Trump or not, I can't see people cozying up to this administration.