Trump is again attacking his own AG this morning, saying that he wish he never picked him for the job and picked someone else. And he’s using a quote by Trey Gowdy to do it:
Rep.Trey Gowdy, “I don’t think so, I think what the President is doing is expressing frustration that Attorney General Sessions should have shared these reasons for recusal before he took the job, not afterward. If I were the President and I picked someone to be the country’s....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018
....chief law enforcement officer, and they told me later, ‘oh by the way I’m not going to be able to participate in the most important case in the office, I would be frustrated too...and that’s how I read that - Senator Sessions, why didn’t you tell me before I picked you.....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018
....There are lots of really good lawyers in the country, he could have picked somebody else!” And I wish I did!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018
I’ve never liked how Trump attacks his own people this way. Despite whether one agrees with him or not, these kind of rebukes should not be done in public.
If Trump wants to fire Sessions, he should just get it over with and do it. Otherwise he should shut up about it.
By the way, didn’t Trump tell us on the campaign trail that he hires the best people? Um…