At a news conference to discuss cybercrime today, General Sessions gave every indication he fully intends to stay on as the top man in the Justice Department and chief law enforcement officer for the United States.
“We in this Department of Justice will continue every single day to work hard to serve the national interest, and we whole-heartedly join in priorities of President Trump,” Sessions responded. “I have the honor of serving as attorney general. It’s something that goes beyond any thought that I’ve ever had for myself.”
Sessions noted he loves the job and the department and added, “I plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate.”
Reporters pressed him further on whether he could stay on the job if he doesn’t have the confidence of the president.
We’re serving right now—the work we’re doing is the kind of work we intend to continue,” Sessions said.
In his comments to the Times, President Trump noted the recusal was “very unfair to the president,” but did not comment on the job being done by Sessions now. His remarks were clearly retrospective.
How do you take a job and then recuse yourself?” Trump asked. “If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.”
In June the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and ABC News pimped a story that tension between Trump and Sessions was growing and that Sessions had offered his resignation, but Trump wouldn’t accept it. Of course the typical anonymous sources were cited for the stories.
Both men declined to acknowledge the stories, knowing it was just more Deep State mischief to undermine the Trump administration.
Source: Fox News
Please do not resign.
AG Sessions we need you. Please resolve your differences with our President. You are both great Americans and we need you both in our government.
Bye bye Foghorn Leghorn. Only freedom hating bootlickers want you to stay.
Going against the President and The Constitution! YOUR FIRED!!!
I don’t like session and Trump should fire him he’s not for veterans period
Sessions should withdraw his recusal and tell Mueller his services are no longer needed. There was NO reason for Sessions to recuse himself. Obama ordered the Intelligence Agencies to investigate Russian involvement in the election. They provided him and Congress with their OFFICIAL report on 6 Jan 17. The report found ZERO hacking of votes and no mention of ANY collusion with the Trump campaign. That report ended Obama’s directed investigation into the matter. Trump upon taking office did not order a new investigation. So there was no investigation that required Sessions to recuse himself ! IF he had a pair of balls and believed in Justice, he would withdraw his recusal and send Mueller and his Obama and Clinton lawyers packing !