Las Vegas Review-Journal

Report: Sessions offered to quit after tongue-lashing

- By Todd Beamon Newsmax

President Donald Trump berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Oval Office meeting minutes after learning the Robert Mueller had been appointed special counsel in May — prompting “an ashen and emotional” Sessions to offer his resignatio­n, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Trump, who refused to accept the resignatio­n, accused Sessions of “disloyalty,” the Times reported, before he “unleashed a string of insults on his attorney general.”

In addition, “Sessions would later tell associates that the demeaning way the president addressed him was the most humiliatin­g experience in decades of public life,” according to the report.

Sessions recused himself from the Justice Department’s Russia probe in March amid concerns about his disclosure­s about meetings with a Russian ambassador last year.

That move eventually led to Mueller’s appointmen­t after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey earlier in May.

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