Trump warns justice department, FBI bosses

Washington – US President Donald Trump said on Thursday Attorney-General Jeff Sessions was safe in his job until November but warned, at a campaign-style rally in Indiana, that he would “get involved” if the FBI and justice department didn’t “start doing their job.”

Trump told Bloomberg News in an interview that Sessions, whom he has repeatedly attacked for recusing himself from oversight of the Russia probe, would stay until the November congressional elections. But he declined to say if he would keep him on after that.

Speaking later at a rally in Evansville, Indiana, Trump suggested the leadership of the justice department and the FBI were biased against Republicans and that people were angry. “Our Justice Department and the FBI have to start doing their job and doing it right and doing it now,” he said. “If it doesn’t straighten out ... I will get involved.”