Trump complains he has ‘no attorney general’

President Donald Trump has a new line of attack in his war on his own top law enforcement official, telling The Hill that he feels he doesn’t “have an attorney general.”

Trump has long criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions over the former Alabama senator recusing himself from the federal probe into Russian election meddling, but went further in an interview with The Hill.

“I don’t have an attorney general. It’s very sad,” Trump told the site in an Oval Office interview published early Wednesday.

“I’m not happy at the border, I’m not happy with numerous things, not just this,” he added.

Trump recently unleashed a series of broadsides against Sessions over the Justice Department indicting a pair of Republican lawmakers who were among his earliest supporters in Congress.

He also lamented last month that Sessions “never took control” of the Justice Department, a claim which led his attorney general to issue a rare rebuke of the president’s complaints.

“While I am Attorney General, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations,” Sessions said in a statement.

Trump suggested to The Hill that he had a blind spot when it came to Sessions.

“I’m so sad over Jeff Sessions because he came to me. He was the first senator that endorsed me. And he wanted to be attorney general, and I didn’t see it,” he said.