Like so many political rivals he dispatched during a scorched-earth campaign for the White House, President Trump publicly shamed his attorney general as weak or beleaguered.
Sessions, one of the president’s earliest and most vocal supporters, largely sat silent — until now.
Sessions quickly responded Wednesday to Trump’s latest Twitter lashing, in which he called the attorney general “disgraceful” for choosing the Justice Department’s inspector general instead of prosecutors to review alleged surveillance abuses of a former Trump campaign aide.
“As long as I am the attorney general,” Sessions said Wednesday, “I will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor.”
Though the language was measured, the meaning was not.
Intentionally or not, Sessions added an exclamation point hours later when he was photographed at a restaurant dining with Solicitor General Noel Francisco and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, another target of Trump’s ire for his support of special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election. The president's alliance with his attorney general was altered a year ago when Sessions recused himself from managing the Russia inquiry.
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