Trump Says `Biggest Mistake' Was Naming Sessions Attorney General
Trump Says `Biggest Mistake' Was Naming Sessions Attorney General
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said that his biggest mistake was naming former Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to be his first attorney general.
“I would say if I had one do-over, it would be, I would not have appointed Jeff Sessions to be attorney general,” Trump said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” broadcast on Sunday. “That was the biggest mistake.”
Sessions recused himself from supervising the Justice Department’s investigation of Russia interference in the 2016 election because he had been an adviser to Trump’s campaign. That led to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller after Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey.
Trump repeatedly assailed Sessions for recusing himself from the probe for more than a year until the attorney general resigned in 2018. Sessions is reportedly considering running for his old Senate seat, currently held by Democrat Doug Jones.
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