President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was safe in his job at least until the November congressional elections, Bloomberg News reported after interviewing the US leader.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just would love to have him do a great job,\u201d Bloomberg quoted Trump as saying. It said the president declined to comment when asked whether he would keep Sessions in office beyond November.<\/p>\n
Trump has repeatedly attacked Sessions for recusing himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election campaign. After the recusal, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to lead the probe, which Trump has called a \u201cwitch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked in the Bloomberg News interview whether he would comply if Mueller issued a subpoena for him to appear for questioning, Trump said, \u201cI\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI view it differently,\u201d Bloomberg quoted Trump as saying. \u201cI view it as an illegal investigation\u201d because \u201cgreat scholars\u201d have said that \u201cthere should never have been a special counsel.\u201d<\/p>\n
The president has repeatedly criticized Sessions over the Russia probe and resumed the attacks via Twitter last week, saying the attorney general had never fully exerted control over the Justice Department.<\/p>\n
Sessions, in a rare rebuttal, responded that he took control of the department the day he became attorney general and would not allow it to be \u201cimproperly influenced by political considerations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump said in a Twitter post on Saturday that Sessions \u201cdoesn\u2019t understand what is happening underneath his command position.\u201d He charged that Mueller\u2019s probe was \u201chighly conflicted\u201d and that \u201creal corruption goes untouched.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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