Investigate ‘other side,’ Trump pleads with Sessions
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump escalated the feud between himself and his own attorney general Friday, firing back at Jeff Sessions with a series of tweets seeming to mock Sessions for not investigating his opponents.
The president pleaded for a number of investigations and quoted a statement offered by Sessions on Thursday, in which the attorney general defended the Justice Department and said it wouldn’t be influenced by politics.
“‘Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.’ Jeff, this is GREAT, what everyone wants, so look into all of the corruption on the ‘other side’ including deleted Emails, Comey lies & leaks, Mueller conflicts, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr,” the president posted early Friday.
He continued listing others whom he believes Sessions should investigate and offered another request: “Open up the papers & documents without redaction? Come on Jeff, you can do it, the country is waiting!”
That was an apparent reference to Trump’s wish that the FISA surveillance warrants of his former aide Carter Page be declassified and released without redactions.
House Republicans have requested the measure, but the White House has yet to get involved in the matter.
In another tweet, Trump also pointed to the Justice Department’s sentencing a former U.S. intelligence contractor to 63 months for leaking information about Russian meddling. Trump said this was “small potatoes” compared to Hillary Clinton.
Contributing: Kevin Johnson