President Donald Trump can’t quit his ongoing beef with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as reflected by this insulting tweet on Monday morning.
So why aren't the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2017
Not surprisingly, there have been plenty of Twitter reactions to this.
Keep attacking your Own AG, that's a great way to piss off the DOJ.
LOCK YOU UP!!
LOCK YOU UP!!— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) July 24, 2017
The AG is beleaguered because Trump leaked dirt on him to the press so that Sessions could resign or be fired.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) July 24, 2017
For one…Hillary isn't president. Two…your team colluded, she didn't. And three…stop degrading the AG you appointed.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) July 24, 2017
I’m sure that this is the first time a president has called the AG in his own administration as “beleagured.” Sessions should resign.
— Anirvan Ghosh (@anirvanghosh) July 24, 2017
Clearly the president has no faith or trust in his own AG. And is doing all he can to make Sessions leave. Shameful behavior.
— Anirvan Ghosh (@anirvanghosh) July 24, 2017
But scapegoating Sessions won't lead to an investigation against Hillary simply 'coz there is nothing there.
— Anirvan Ghosh (@anirvanghosh) July 24, 2017
The falling out between Trump and Sessions ends a friendship that even predated Trump’s presidential ambitions. The two became close after Sessions called Trump to testify as an expert witness about the cost to taxpayers of proposed United Nations renovations, and few were surprised when Sessions became one of the few sitting senators to endorse Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Then Trump picked Sessions as his attorney general, and everything changed.
The origins of the Trump-Sessions rift can be traced back to the attorney general’s decision to recuse himself from the ongoing investigation into Russia. The president perceives this decision as indicating personal weakness on Sessions’ part and blames it, at least in part, for the fact that he has not been able to shake off the scandal.
Trump’s bad will toward Sessions is so severe that the president even told The New York Times: “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” to be attorney general.
It is noteworthy that, despite his personal beef with Sessions, the president continues to support the policies being implemented by the attorney general. These include the attorney general’s escalation of the war on drugs and lack of sympathy for individuals who complain of civil rights violations from police officers.
