The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Staff Reports
Posted: Monday, January 01, 2018 12:28 PM
President Trump Leaves Fate Of AG Sessions "Up In The Air"- "Time Will Tell"
“We will see what happens,” Trump said in the White House Rose Garden. “Time will tell.”
The president has publicly vented his frustration at Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation.
“He should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to taking office, and I would have, quite simply, picked somebody else,” Trump said. “So I think that’s a bad thing, not for the president but for the presidency.”
Trump also slammed Sessions for not being tough enough on leaks from intelligence agencies.
“These are intelligence agencies,” Trump said. “We cannot have that. I told you before that I am very disappointed with the attorney general but we will see what happens.”
Trump tore into the attorney general earlier Tuesday in a series of tweets where he called the former Alabama senator was “VERY weak” on Hillary Clinton’s supposed “crimes.”
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders would not confirm rumors that the president was considering firing Sessions but did not rule it out either.
She told “Fox & Friends” that she hasn’t been part “of any conversations discussing any potential replacements,” but made clear that Trump is “frustrated and disappointed” in the attorney general.
“That frustration certainly hasn’t gone away, and I don’t think it will,” Sanders said.