Trump continues feud with Sessions

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump continued to publicly spar Friday with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, urging him in early morning tweets to investigate a long list of what the president termed “corruption on the ‘other side.’”

“Come on Jeff, you can do it, the country is waiting!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

His exhortation followed a remarkable public war of words Thursday between Trump and the former senator from Alabama, whom he appointed to lead a Justice Department that is now conducting multiple investigations related to the president and his closest associates.

After Trump offered fresh criticism of Sessions on Twitter on Thursday, Sessions responded with a statement saying his department would “not be improperly influenced by political considerations.”

In his Friday tweets, Trump quoted Sessions’s statement, calling it “GREAT” and “what everyone wants.”

But Trump then ticked off a list of issues that he said Sessions should be investigating, including Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state; the alleged “lies & leaks” of former FBI director James Comey; the alleged “conflicts” of special counsel Robert Mueller; the anti-Trump texts sent by former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page; and the alleged “illegal surveillance” of Trump’s campaign in 2016, a claim that has been largely discredited.

In a later tweet, Trump referenced the case of Reality Winner, a Georgia woman who was sentenced this week to 63 months in prison for leaking a classified report on Russian hacking.