Jeff Sessions Offered Trump His Resignation: Report
Attorney General Jeff Sessions suggested to Donald Trump that he might resign as tensions between him and the president have continued to rise.
According to the ABC report, “The friction between the two men stems from the attorney general’s abrupt decision in March to recuse himself from anything related to the Russia investigation — a decision the president only learned about minutes before Sessions announced it publicly. Multiple sources say the recusal is one of the top disappointments of his presidency so far and one the president has remained fixated on.”
Trump’s anger over the Russia investigation apparently hasn’t cooled off and he repeatedly breaks into angry tirades about Sessions decision to recuse himself.
Trump believes that Robert Mueller would have never been named Special Prosecutor if Sessions never recused himself.
Sessions, who was one of Trump’s earliest supporters during the campaign, was forced to recuse himself from the Russia investigation after it was revealed he lied under oath during his Senate testimony.
During the daily White House press briefing, Sean Spicer told the press that he had not had a chance to ask the president if he still had full confidence in Jeff Sessions.
“I have not had that discussion with him,” Spicer said.
“So you can’t say if he has confidence in his attorney general?” Spicer was asked.
Spicer responded: “I said I have not had a discussion with him on the question. I don’t, If I haven’t had a discussion about a subject, I tend not to speak about it.”
The ABC report follows a previous report by The New York Times report that first reported Trump’s unhappiness with Sessions.
You can read the ABC News report here.
UPDATE: This story has been confirmed by The Washington Post, New York Times.
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