“I Don’t Have An Attorney General”: Trump Blasts Sessions, Says FBI Is A “Cancer In Our Country”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Wed, 09/19/2018
Ever since Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided to recuse himself from overseeing the DOJ’s probe into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia back in the Spring of 2017 – a decision that set the stage for the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller – President Trump has subjected his AG to an unceasing wave of public abuse and belittling comments, all the while suggesting that Sessions might soon be cut loose thanks to his immense disloyalty to his boss.
But Trump outdid himself on Wednesday during a freewheeling interview with the Hill where he declared that “I don’t have an attorney general” and added that he’s “not happy” with Sessions’ performance on a number of fronts beyond the Russia probe.
Trump went on to speculate that Sessions’ “very poor” performance during the nominating process went on to impact his performance as attorney general. Though Trump said Sessions’ performance is especially disappointing in light of the senator’s early support of the Trump campaign.
“I’m not happy at the border, I’m not happy with numerous things, not just this,” he said.
Trump suggested he had a personal blind spot when it came to nominating Sessions as the nation’s top law enforcement officer.
“I’m so sad over Jeff Sessions because he came to me. He was the first Senator that endorsed me. And he wanted to be Attorney General, and I didn’t see it,” he said.
“And then he went through the nominating process and he did very poorly. I mean, he was mixed up and confused, and people that worked with him for, you know, a long time in the Senate were not nice to him, but he was giving very confusing answers. Answers that should have been easily answered. And that was a rough time for him.”
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The president suggested Sessions’ experience going through the nominating process in the Senate may have impacted his performance at attorney general.
“He gets in and probably because of the experience that he had going through the nominating when somebody asked him the first question about Hillary Clinton or something he said ‘I recuse myself, I recuse myself,'” Trump said.
“And now it turned out he didn’t have to recuse himself. Actually, the FBI reported shortly thereafter any reason for him to recuse himself. And it’s very sad what happened.”
Shifting from Sessions to the much-maligned FBI, Trump said the agency was “a cancer” and that uncovering deep-seated corruption in the FBI may be remembered as the “crowning achievement” of his administration, per the Hill.
“What we’ve done is a great service to the country, really,” Trump said in a 45-minute, wide-ranging interview in the Oval Office.
“I hope to be able put this up as one of my crowning achievements that I was able to … expose something that is truly a cancer in our country.”
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