President Trump Says He Wouldn’t Have Appointed Jeff Sessions as Attorney General

President Trump is apparently having second thoughts about having former Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

In an interview with the New York Times, Trump explained that Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation has the president questioning his own AG’s competence.

“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,” the president told the liberal paper.

This comes as a surprise because Senator Sessions was an early backer of Trump. When other Republicans were too spineless to endorse the man the Republican base demanded, the Alabama senator broke rank and endorsed with little hesitation. That’s because Jeff Sessions has been a champion on border enforcement for decades. He knew Trump was the only GOP candidate who would follow through on building the wall along the Mexican border.

I can see where Trump is coming from: In the face of a threat, you do not give an inch to your enemies.

Sessions’s recusal means the president has less control of the Russian investigation, which is being led by the FBI.

Unfortunately, Sessions played right into the Democrats’ hands. He should have known that recusing himself would earn him no good will with liberals, no matter how ethical or necessary it might have been.

President Trump is clear-eyed about the Democrats’ true intentions: Russia or not, they mean to impeach him, and force him from office disgraced.

Jeff Sessions is too much of a “by-the-book” law enforcer that he’s blind to the Democrats’ underhanded schemes.

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