A lot of folks on FR feel that he insinuated himself into the campaign in order to, hopefully, get the AG job and do exactly what he did.
Sorry, that’s just a fairy tale. Sessions won no beltway friends getting on the Trump Train. Recall at that time the Cruz inspired Never Trump blacklist was in effect. Nobody wanted anything to do with Trump.
Which when Sessions threw himself to Trump, Trump, rewarded his loyalty with the AG position. They knew Trump rewarded loyal supporters. Sessions was a plant to stop investigations into Clinton. Clinton has FBI files on many people in Congress and throw in our party rino’s, no trumpers they knew getting an AG who would recuse himself would stop it.
Sessions recused himself for meeting a Russian ambassador in his office as part of his job as a Senator. Then he talked to that same ambassador at a dem/republican gathering in which they all talked to the Russian. It was such a lousy excuse and he even admitted it later he shouldn’t have recused himself. He could have un-recused at any point after that- but chose not to.
Oh and Sessions kept his many loyal friends in Congress. Repubs told our President if you are to fire him, we won’t confirm a replacement. Tell me how Sessions KEPT HIS FRIENDS IN CONGRESS. It was a win win for him. Ag position, keep Trump from investigating and had friends who would fight for him to not get fired.