In Interview, Trump Expresses Anger at Sessions and Comey, and Warns Mueller.
' President Trump said on Wednesday that he never would have appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions had he known Mr. Sessions would recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation that has dogged his presidency, calling the decision very unfair to the president.
In a remarkable public break with one of his earliest political supporters, Mr. Trump complained that Mr. Sessionss decision ultimately led to the appointment of a special counsel that should not have happened. Sessions should have never recused himself and if he was going to recuse himself he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else, Mr. Trump said.
In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, the president also accused James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director he fired in May, of trying to leverage a dossier of compromising material to keep his job. Mr. Trump criticized both the acting F.B.I. director who has been filling in since Mr. Comeys dismissal and the deputy attorney general who recommended it. And he took on Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel now leading the investigation into Russian meddling in last years election.
Mr. Trump said Mr. Mueller was running an office rife with conflicts of interest and warned that investigators would cross a red line if they delve into Trump family finances unrelated to Russia. Mr. Trump never said he would order the Justice Department to fire Mr. Mueller, nor would he outline circumstances under which he might do so. But he left open the possibility as he expressed deep grievance over an investigation that has taken a political toll in the six months since he took office.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-sessions-russia.html?
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)He litetally can't view anything except for how it effects him. GOD HELP US!
C_U_L8R
(45,014 posts)tastes like chicken.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)LMFAO.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)pbmus
(12,422 posts)creeksneakers2
(7,476 posts)because Trump fully expected Sessions to put the fix in for him.
FATNED
(113 posts)--"New York Times is fake, failing news but I'll give you a coveted sit-down interview in the WH."
--Ivanka and daughter just happened into the Oval Office during this high-stakes interview. "Let's see what Grandpa's up to."
--Trump believes Baltimore has no Republicans, just Democrats, by which he means black people.
Permanut
(5,619 posts)The AG, FBI director, the entire cabinet, Senators, Representatives, janitors, Secret Service, everybody, then things would be okay.