Trump has
broken out of his delusions long enough to finally realize that the noose is
beginning to slowly tighten around his neck. He is now lashing out, even at one
of his strongest supporters, AG Jeff Sessions.
Allegations of conflicts of interests are deemed to make the
investigators unfit. He again made accusations against Comey. Anyone old enough, or know
enough about American history to remember Nixon, Watergate and the “Saturday
Night Massacre.”? When will Sesssions resign andTrump begin the firings?
In a remarkable
public break with one of his earliest political supporters, Mr. Trump
complained that Mr. Sessions’s decision ultimately led to the appointment
of a special counsel that should not have happened. “Sessions should have
never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have
told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else,” Mr.
Trump said.
In a
wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, the president also accused
James B. Comey, the F.B.I.
director he
fired in May, of trying to leverage a dossier of compromising material to
keep his job. Mr. Trump criticized both
the acting F.B.I. director who has been filling in since Mr. Comey’s dismissal [Andrew B. McCabe] and the deputy attorney
general [Rod J. Rosenstein] who recommended it. And he took on Robert S. Mueller III,
the special counsel now leading the investigation into Russian meddling in last
year’s election.
Mr. Trump said
Mr. Mueller was running an office rife with conflicts of interest and warned
investigators against delving into matters too far afield from Russia. Mr.
Trump never said he would order the Justice Department to fire Mr. Mueller, nor
would he outline circumstances under which he might do so. But he left open the
possibility as he expressed deep grievance over an investigation that has taken
a political toll in the six months since he took office.
Asked if Mr. Mueller’s investigation
would cross a red line if it expanded to look at his family’s finances beyond
any relationship to Russia, Mr. Trump said, “I would say yes.” He would not say
what he would do about it. “I think that’s a violation. Look, this is about
Russia.”
. . . But Mr. Trump left little doubt during the interview that the Russia
investigation remained a sore point. His pique at Mr. Sessions, in particular,
seemed fresh even months after the
attorney general’s recusal. Mr. Sessions was the first senator to endorse
Mr. Trump’s candidacy and was rewarded with a key cabinet slot, but has been
more distant from the president lately. [The recusal was required by ethical
considerations, Sessions did not want to recuse himself]
“Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into
the job, recuses himself, which frankly I think is very unfair to the
president,” he added. “How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he
would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff,
but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair — and that’s a mild word
— to the president.”
Mr. Trump also faulted Mr. Sessions for
his testimony during Senate confirmation hearings when Mr. Sessions said he had
not had “communications with the Russians” even though he had met at least
twice with Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak. “Jeff Sessions gave some bad answers,”
the president said. “He gave some answers that were simple questions and should
have been simple answers, but they weren’t.”
A spokesman for Mr. Sessions declined to
comment on Wednesday.
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