WASHINGTON – President Trump will never ge🥂t over his disdain for Attorn💟ey General Jeff Sessions, according to his former chief of staff.
No matter what, Trump can’t shake the fact that Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe and pav🌞ed the way for the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
“The president has made up his mind in regard to how he feels about the recusal,” Reince Priebus “He feels that was the first sin, the original sin. And he feels slighted by it. He doesn’t like it. And he’s not going to let it go.”
Sessions last year felt he had legal obligation to recuse himself from the FBI’s 🧸ongoing Russia probe into the Trump campaign because of his work for Team Trump and his own meetings with Russians.
Trump viewed the recusal as a betrayal because it ultimately expoꦍsed him and his family t𝓰o Mueller’s methodical probe.
No cabinet member has endured such a public shaming as Sessions, whom Trump has called “disgraceful,” “Mr. Magoo,” and “weak.”
Priebus is credited with saving Sessions’ job at least twice by preventing his resignation or firing. He believed Sessions ouster would create a “spiral of calamity that makes (fired FBI Director James) Comey look like a picnic,” according to a new book, “,” by Chris Whipple.
Sessiꦉons has now been sticking up for himself and intends to stay on the job.
“I don’t think that it would be good for the president for Attorney General Sessions to leave,” Priebus said Sunday.
The forme🔯r head of the Republican National Committee also defended Trump’s governing style.
While there may be internal battles, he said, the resulting decisions are good for the 💎country.
Trump decides issues like trade by putting conflicting people in the room to argue it out, such as Commerce S🦄ecretary Wilbur Ross (pro-tariff) versus economic adviser Gary Cohn (anti-tariff), Priebus said.
“He puts rivals around him intellectually. … He puts those two guys in front of him and says OK, fight out tariffs in front of me, and they fight it out, the media covers the fight, but ultimately the decision is made,” Priebus said.
“So the drama is there, but that is how the president makes decisions, and that process while different, has gotten to good results.”