Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he has no immediate plans to resign after President Donald Trump excoriated the nation’s top prosecutor for recusing himself from the probe of suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 US political campaign.
“We love this job, we love this department and I plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate,” Sessions says.
A former senator from Alabama, Sessions was one of Trump’s earliest and ardent supporters and became attorney general in February. A month later, he took himself out of a Justice Department-led inquiry into the election following revelations he’d failed to disclose his own meetings with the Russian ambassador to the US.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions seen a news conference at the Justice Department on July 13, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)
At a news conference Thursday on an unrelated matter, Sessions is asked how he could continue to serve as attorney general without the confidence of the president. His response: “We’re serving right now. The work we’re doing today is the kind of work we intend to continue.”
Trump on Wednesday told The New York Times he never would have tapped Sessions for the job had he known a recusal was coming.
“Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, which frankly I think is very unfair to the president,” Trump told the newspaper.
— AP
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