We all know why President Trump fired his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions: Trump blames him for allowing the Russia investigation to begin and thought Sessions should have intervened to end it.
But we haven’t heard Trump connect the dots so explicitly. Until Wednesday:
Trump is now publicly acknowledging something he spent years not quite saying: that he fired Sessions specifically because Sessions didn’t stop the inquiry by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. The implication is that Sessions wasn’t loyal to Trump and what Trump wanted to happen in the Justice Department. Continue reading.