In an extraordinary verbal fusillade against virtually every law-enforcement official with some role in investigating whether his campaign last year colluded with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton, President Trump said that if he had known that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions would recuse himself from the probe, he wouldn’t have appointed him.
“How do you take a job and then recuse yourself?” the embattled President said in an extended July 19 interview with three New York Times reporters. “If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair—and that’s a mild word—to the President.”
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