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President Trump took another potshot at his attorney general on Monday, describing Jeff Sessions as “beleaguered” and questioning why he isn’t going after Hillary Clinton’s “crimes.”
“After 1 year of investigation with Zero evidence being found, Chuck Schumer just stated that ‘Democrats should blame ourselves, not Russia,’ ” Trump tweeted.
“So why aren’t the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?”
The Washington Post reported later that Trump and his inner circle were discussing Sessions’ possible replacement, with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Rudy Giuliani being mentioned as candidates.
But both say they’re not interested.
“I’m so busy with my private law practice and security business it would impossible for me to leave right now,” Giuliani told The Post.
And Cruz released a statement late on Monday saying, “The stories being reported in the media tonight are false. My focus is and will remain on fighting every day to defend 28 million Texans in the US Senate.”
Cruz, once a staunch Trump opponent, became a loyalist after the presidential election — although the Texas senator has praised Sessions as “a man of honor and integrity” over his recusing himself from the probe into Russia’s election meddling.
Giuliani also said Monday he thinks Sessions made the right decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation — and has told Trump as much.
“I thought it was the correct decision under the Justice Department regulations,” he said. “I thought he consulted with the ethics counsel and he made the right decision. I have told the president that.”
But Trump disagrees. Last week, he publicly blasted the Sessions recusal decision as “very unfair to the president.”
“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,” Trump told The New York Times.
The president had a chance to defend Sessions — the first US senator to back his candidacy — later on Monday, but he didn’t take it. Reporters, ushered into a photo op with Trump and White House interns, asked the president, “Should Sessions resign?”
But Trump just rolled his eyes as the interns laughed, and told them, “They’re not supposed to do that.”
Sessions was at the White House on Monday but didn’t meet with the president, according to press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Sessions had offered his resignation last month when the president privately was expressing misgivings about him. But the offer was rejected. Last week, Sessions said he plans on staying “as long as that is appropriate” and is “completely confident” he can continue leading the Justice Department.
And Giuliani said he doesn’t think the president will ask Sessions to resign. “I don’t expect it at all,” he said.