STAND BY YOUR MAN. Immigration Hardliners to Donald Trump: Don't Mess With Jeff Sessions

STAND BY YOUR MAN

Immigration Hardliners to Donald Trump: Don’t Mess With Jeff Sessions

Donald Trump isn’t the only one in his administration with a loyal following.

BETSY WOODRUFF
07.21.17 1:00 AM ET

Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ standing could not be more precarious. On Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump laid bare the frustrations he’s had over Sessions’ decision to recuse himself from an investigation into Trump’s potential ties to Russia, sparking chatter that the AG’s tenure could soon end. But amidst that talk, some Sessions allies want him to make a bold play in the opposite direction.

“I think he should reevaluate his recusals,” Tom Fitton, who heads Judicial Watch—the conservative watchdog group that played a key role in forcing the release of Hillary Clinton’s emails—told The Daily Beast. “If Mueller is doing everything he’s being reported as doing, that’s beyond what anyone signed up for in terms of the scope of Sessions’ recusal.”

The president told The New York Times on Wednesday that he wouldn’t have made Sessions attorney general if he had known he would recuse himself. Fitton said Sessions could resolve all of this by reversing his recusal. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on whether Sessions is currently considering this.

Fitton said recent reports on Mueller’s probe—including one this morning from Bloomberg saying he’s investigating the president’s business dealings—indicate the investigation has gone beyond the scope of Sessions’ initial recusal.

“It’s an ethics question, it’s not a legal question,” Fitton said. “Circumstances have changed given the nature of the investigation.”

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