White House responds to questions about Trump’s confidence in Sessions

Today the White House was asked if Trump had confidence in Sessions after Trump had expressed disappointment in Session’s recusal in an interview with the NY Times, saying he wouldn’t have hired Sessions if he’d know the recusal was coming.

Here’s their response (from Politico):

Sessions would not have his job if Trump wasn’t confident in him, Sanders said in response to the day’s first question.

“As the president said yesterday, he was disappointed in Attorney General Sessions’ decision to recuse himself. But clearly he has confidence in him or he would not be the attorney general,” Sanders said.

Asked if the attorney general serves the president or the constitution, Sanders replied, “Both.”

Trump has not spoken with Sessions in the past 24 hours, Sanders said. Asked if he should resign, she said: “I think you know this president well enough to know that if he wanted somebody to take an action, he would make that clear.”

It would be much better if Trump had handled this behind closed doors instead of airing it publically.

At this point it doesn’t matter how much confidence he says he has in Sessions, everyone will always remember him saying that he wouldn’t have hired Sessions if he’d known about the recusal, which kinda puts a bit of a cloud over Sessions’ head.


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