Posted on 09/14/2017 6:53:16 PM PDT by CaptainK
WASHINGTON — Shortly after learning in May that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate links between his campaign associates and Russia, President Trump berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Oval Office meeting and said he should resign, according to current and former administration officials and others briefed on the matter.
The president attributed the appointment of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to Mr. Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the Justice Department’s Russia investigation — a move Mr. Trump believes was the moment his administration effectively lost control over the inquiry. Accusing Mr. Sessions of “disloyalty,” Mr. Trump unleashed a string of insults on his attorney general.
Ashen and emotional, Mr. Sessions told the president he would quit and sent a resignation letter to the White House, according to four people who were told details of the meeting. Mr. Sessions would later tell associates that the demeaning way the president addressed him was the most humiliating experience in decades of public life.
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If true, Sessions is a bigger sissy than I thought, it explains why he is taking literally zero action against Hillary and other criminals. He’s a sentimental weakling.
If true, he deserved it. He locked POTUS out of decision to recuse and set him up for witch hunt.
yeah? then how but this???
The stupid mofo should’ve stepped out of the office. Who recuses himself immediately upon taking office? Holder? Lynch? Reno? That’s laughable; which is why little Jeffie is such a laughing stock.
He should crawl under a rock. Freakin pansy.
Why didn’t Trump accept the resignation?
Where the check is this idiot sessions from anyway?? Dude is completely worthless
The reason is in the article.
Good.
Sessions is trash.
Trump promised right after the election that Hillary would not be prosecuted. What can Sessions do when Trump is protecting her?
I’d have read him the riot act too. There was no good, solid reason for Sessions to recuse himself and play into Comey’s hand.
Or else realize he made a big mistake, man up and start making amends.
Sessions has been a humiliating experience for conservatives as an AG. Not one traitor in the Obama kakistocracy indicted, much less tried, convicted, and sentenced to be publicly hanged.
Well, maybe not rich. But I'd have at least $40. LOL.
LOL!
Trump didn’t fire Sessions and wouldn’t take his resignation.
Gee, a world where a boss can’t dress down a subordinate would be a strange one.
I don’t click NYT articles. Thanks for the non answer.
Sessions is useless in his office, just look at all the people he will not investigate.
This is a humongous New York Times crock. The giveaway is the BS about Sessions submitting his resignation. I remember back in the middle of it, Sessions said something along the lines of, “I’ve lived my whole life to have this position, and I will not resign. The Pres’dent can fire me, but I will not resign.” It was all over FR at the time.
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