By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
President Trump said he will keep his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, on the job until at least the mid-term elections in November, despite blasting the former senator for failing to stop an “illegal investigation” by special counsel Robert Mueller.
“I just would love to have him do a great job,” Trump told Bloomberg, declining to say whether Sessions’ job was safe after November.
Trump has clashed with Sessions since he recused himself from the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The recusal allowed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint Mueller to investigate Russia in May 2017, just days after the president fired FBI Director James Comey.
Trump has called the investigation a “witch hunt” and routinely questions why the Justice Department isn’t investigating Hillary Clinton.
“I’d love to have him look at the other side,” Trump said.
At a rally in Indiana on Thursday night, Trump turned up the rhetoric, threatening to “get involved” in the work of the Justice Department and FBI unless the agencies “start doing their job.”
He also blasted both agencies by suggesting they are letting Clinton get away with crimes.
“What’s happening is a disgrace, and at some point … if it doesn’t straighten out properly … I will get involved,” Trump said.
